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a_, act iii. sc. 2) (1602). CRESSWELL (_Madame_), a woman of infamous character, who bequeathed L10 for a funeral sermon, in which nothing ill should be said of her. The Duke of Buckinham wrote the sermon, which was as follows:--"All I shall say of her is this: she was born _well_, she married _well_, lived _well_, and died _well_; for she was born at Shad-well, married Cress-well, lived at Clerken-well, and died in Bride-well." CRESSY MCKINSTRY. Belle of Tuolumne County, California; pretty, saucy and illiterate. She conceives the idea of getting an education, and attends the district school, breaking an engagement of marriage to do this; bewitches the master, a college graduate, and confesses her love for him, but will not be "engaged:" "I don't know enough to be a wife to you just now and you know it. I couldn't keep a house fit for you and you couldn't keep me without it.... You're only a dandy boy, you know, and they don't get married to backwood Southern girls." After many scrapes involving perils, shared together, and much love-making, he is stunned one morning to learn that Cressy is married to another man, whom she had feigned not to like.--Bret Harte, _Cressy_ (1889). CRETE (_Hound of_), a blood-hound.--See _Midsummer Night's Dream_, act iii. sec. 2. Coupe le gorge, that's the word; I thee defy again, O hound of Crete! Shakespeare, _Henry V_. act ii. sc. 1 (1599). _Crete (The Infamy of)_, the Minotaur. [_There_] lay stretched The infamy of Crete, detested brood Of the feigned heifer. Dante, _Hell_, xii. (1300, Cary's translation). CREVECOUR (2 _syl_.). The count Philip de Crevecour is the envoy sent by Charles "the Bold," duke of Burgundy, with a defiance to Louis XI., king of France. _The Countess of Crevecour_, wife of the count.--Sir W. Scott, _Quentin Durward_ (time, Edward IV.). CRIB (_Tom_), Thomas Moore, author of _Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress_ (1819). CRILLON. The following story is told of this brave but simple-minded officer. Henry IV., after the battle of Arques, wrote to him thus: Prends-toi, brave Crillon, nous avons vaincu a Arques, et tu n'y etais pas. The first and last part of this letter have become proverbial in France. When Crillon heard the story of the Crucifixion read at Church, he grew so excited that he cried out in an audible voice, _Ou etais tu, Crillon_? ("What were you about, Crillon, to permit of such atrocity!") [Illust
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