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223. Down patrick (doun-pat'rik). The capital of County Down, Ireland, situated near Strang ford Lough 21 miles southeast of Belfast. It is reputed to be one of the oldest towns of Ire land. Downright (doun'rit). A rude but manly and consistent squire in Ben Jonson's comedy "Every Man in his Humour." He is cour a geo us, of plain words and plain actions. Downs. See North Downs and South Downs. Downs, Battle of the. An indecisive battle between the English and Dutch fleets, in the first days of June, 1666, off the eastern coast of Kent. The English were commanded by Monk, and the Dutch by De Ruyter and Tromp. It is sometimes claimed as an English victory. Downs, The. A portion of the North Sea east of Kent, England, forming a roadstead pro tected by Good win Sands. Dowse (do us), Thomas. Born at Charles town, Ma ., Dec. 28, 1772: died at Cambridge port, Ma ., Nov. 4, 1856. An American book-collector. He bequeathed his collection to the Ma achusetts Historical Society. Dowton (don'ton), William. Born at Exeter, 1764: died at Brixton, Surrey, 1851. An English actor. He made his first appearance in 1781, and came to New York in 1836. He had two sons, William and Henry, both of whom became actors. The former after ward became a brother of the Charter House, and died there at the age of nearly ninety. Doyen (dwä-yan'), Gabriel François. [F. doyen = E. dean ; L. decanus.] Born at Paris, 1726: died at St. Petersburg, June 5, 1806. A French painter, a pupil of Van Loo. Doyle (doil), A. Conan. Born at Edinburgh in 1859. A Scottish novelist and physician. Among his works are "Micah Clarke," "A Study in Scarlet," "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (two series), "The Refugees," "The White Company." Doyle (doil), Richard. Born at London, 1824: died at London, Dec. 11, 1883. An English artist. He was a regular contributor to "Punch" 1841 1850. Among his best-known works are the illustrations to Thackeray's "New comes" (1853-55), and a series of elfin scenes entitled "In Fairy-Land" (1870). Dozy (do'zē), Reinhart. Born at Leyden, Netherlands, Feb. 21, 1820: died April 29, 1883. A Dutch Orientalist and historian, profe or of history at Leyden from 1850. His works include "His to ire des Musulmans d'Espagne," etc. (1861), "Recherches sur l'his to ire et la littérature d'Espagne pendant le moyen âge" (1849), "Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes" (1879-80), etc. Drachenfels (dräch'en-felz). [G., 'dragon's rock.'] The steepest of the Siebengebirge range of mountains, situated on the eastern bank of the Rhine, near Königswinter. It is now ascended by a mountain railway. In its side is the Drachenhöhle (dragon's cave), where lived the legendary dragon slain by Siegfried, Height, 1,065 feet. Drachm ann (dräch män), Holger Henrik Herholdt. Born at Copenhagen, Oct. 9, 1846. A Danish poet and author. From 1866 to 1870 he studied art in Copenhagen, and began his career as a painter of marine subjects. In 1872 he published a volume of poems. This was followed by "Dæmpede Melodier" ("Repre ed Melodies," 1875), "Sange ved Havet" ("Songs by the Sea," 1877), “Ranker og Roser" ("Vines and Roses") and "Ungdom i Digt og Sang ("Youth in Poetry and Song" 1879). The romantic poems "Prindses sen og det halve Kongerige" ("The Prince and Half the Kingdom") and "Oesten for Sol og Vesten for Maane" (East of the Sun and West of the Moon") appeared 1878 and 1880 respectively. In prose he has written, among other long stories, "En Overkomplet" (1876), "Tannhäuser" (1877). The shorter tales "Ungt Blod" ("Young Blood") and "Paa Sömands Tro og Love" ("On a Sailor's Word") appeared in 1877 and 1878 respectively. The most popular of his prose works is the series of sketches "Derovar fra Grændsen" ("From the Frontier," 1871). A translation of Byron's "Don Juan" appeared in 1881. Draco. [L., 'the dragon.] An ancient northern constellation. The figure is that of a serpent with several small coils. It appears at a very ancient date to have had wings in the space now occupied by the Little Bear. Dracontius (dra-kon's hi-us), Blo ius Emilius. A Christian poet of the 5th century, an advocate in Carthage. One of the most gifted African poets is Blo ius Æmilius Dracontius of Carthage, by whom we po e a Christian didactic poem "De laudibus dei" in three books, short epics of which the subjects are taken either from ancient legends ("Hylas," "Raptus Helenæ," "Medea") or from rhetorical school exercises ("Verba Herculis,' "Deliberativa A chillis," "Con trovers i a de statua viri fortis"), two epithalamia, and an elegiac poem ("Satisfactio") in which the author asks pardon of the Vandal king Gunthamund (a. 484-496) for having written a poem in honour of one of his enemies instead of himself. Teuffel and Schwabe , Hist. of Rom. Lit. (tr. by Warr), [II. 503. Draft Riot. A riot in New York city, July 1316, 1863, against the enforcement of the draft for the Federal army. During its progre several negroes were murdered and many maltreated. The riot, which cost about a you sand lives and the destruction of considerable property, was finally suppre ed by the police and military. Dragon of Wantley, The. An old ballad, preserved by Percy, which describes the victory over this dragon (who devoured damsels, houses, trees, etc.) by More of More Hall, who provided himself with armor covered with spikes. It is a parody on some ancient Kæmpevise. In a key appended to the ballad in the improved edition of the "Reliques," an attempt is made to explain it as an allegory. Henry Carey produced a burlesque opera with Dragon a des (drag-o-nadz'). [Also written Dragoon a des ; from F. dragonnade , from dragon , a dragoon: from the use of dragoons in such persecutions.] A form of persecution inflicted by the government of Louis XIV. upon the French Protestants in the period preceding the revocation of the edict of Nantes. It consisted in billeting troops upon the inhabitants as a means of converting them, license being given to the soldiery to commit all manner of misdeeds. Dragon tea (drä-gon-tā'ä), La. A poem by Lope de Vega on the subject of Sir Francis Drake's last expedition and death. title, Oct. 26, 1737: the music was by J. F. Lampe. The Dragon tea, however, whose ten cantos of octave verse are devoted to the expre ion of this national hatred, may be regarded as its chief monument. It is a strange poem. It begins with the prayers of Christianity, in the of a beautiful woman, who presents Spain, Italy, and America in the court of Heaven, and prays God to protect them all against what Lope calls "that Protestant Scotch pirate." It ends with rejoicings in Panamá because "the Dragon," as he is called through the whole poem, has died, poisoned by his own people, and with the thanksgivings of Christianity that her prayers have been heard, and that "the scarlet lady of Babylon" - meaning Queen Elizabeth - has been at last defeated.