ALFRED AS A GLEEMAN. Alfred, wishing to know the strength of the Danish camp, assumed the disguise of a minstrel, and stayed in the Danish camp for several days, amusing the soldiers with his harping and singing. After he had made himself master of all he required, he returned back to his own place.--William of Malmesbury (twelfth century). William of Malmesbury tells a similar story of Anlaf, a Danish king, who, he says, just before the battle of Brunanburh, in Northumberland, entered the camp of king Athelstan as a gleeman, harp in hand; and so pleased was the English king that he gave him gold. Anlaf would not keep the gold, but buried it in the earth. ALGARSIFE (3 _syl_.), and Cam'ballo, sons of Cambuscan' king of Tartary, and Elfêta his wife. Algarsife married Theodora. I speak of Algarsife, How that he won Theodora to his wife. Chaucer, _The Squire's Tale_ AL'GEBAR' ("_the giant_"). So the Arabians call the constellation Orion. Begirt with many a blazing star, Stood the great giant Algebar-- Orion, hunter of the beast. Longfellow, _The Occultation of Orion_. AL'I, cousin and son-in-law of Mahomet. The beauty of his eyes is proverbial in Persia. _Ayn Hali_ ("eyes of Ali") is the highest compliment a Persian can pay to beauty.--Chardin. ALI BABA, a poor Persian wood-carrier, who accidentally learns the magic words, "Open Sesamê!" "Shut Sesamê!" by which he gains entrance into a vast cavern, the repository of stolen wealth and the lair of forty thieves. He makes himself rich by plundering from these stores; and by the shrewd cunning of Morgiana, his female slave, the captain and his whole band of thieves are extirpated. In reward of these services, Ali Baba gives Morgiana her freedom, and marries her to his own son.--_Arabian Nights_ ("Ali Baba or the Forty Thieves"). AL'ICE (2 _syl_.), sister of Valentine, in _Mons. Thomas_, a comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher (1619). _Al'ice_ (2 _syl_.), foster-sister of Robert le Diable, and bride of Rambaldo, the Norman troubadour, in Meyerbeer's opera of _Roberto il Diavolo_. She comes to Palermo to place in the duke's hand his mother's "will," which he is enjoined not to read till he is a virtuous man. She is Robert's good genius, and when Bertram, the fiend, claims his soul as the price of his ill deeds, Alice, by reading the will, reclaims him. _Al'ice_ (2 _syl_.), the servant-girl of dame Whitecraft, wife of the innkeeper at Altringham.--Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.). _Al'ice_, the miller's daughter, a story of happy first love told in later years by an old man who had married the rustic beauty. He was a dreamy lad when he first loved Alice, and the passion roused him into manhood. (See ROSE.)--Tennyson, _The Miller's Daughter_. _Al'ice (The Lady_), widow of Walter, knight of Avenel (2 _syl_).--Sir W. Scott, _The Monastery_ (time, Elizabeth).