=Heartwell=, a friend of Modeley’s, who falls in love with Flora, a niece of old Farmer Freehold. They marry and are happy.—John Philip Kemble, _The Farm-house._ =Heatherblutter= (_John_), gamekeeper of the baron of Bradwardine (_3 syl._) at Tully Veolan.—Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.). =Heaven-sent Minister= (_The_), William Pitt (1759-1806). =Hebe= (_2 syl._), goddess of youth, and cup-bearer of the immortals before Ganymede superseded her. She was the wife of Herculês, and had the power of making the aged young again. (See PLOUSINA.) Hebês are they to hand ambrosia, mix The nectar. Tennyson, _The Princess_, iii. =Hebron=, in the first part of _Absalom and Achitophel_, by Dryden, stands for Holland; but in the second part, by Tate, it stands for Scotland. Hebronite similarly means in one case a Hollander, and in the other a Scotchman. =Hec´ate= (_2 syl._), called in classic mythology _Hec´.a.te_ (_3 syl._); a triple deity, being _Luna_ in heaven, _Dian’a_ on earth, and _Proserpine_ (_3 syl._) in hell. Hecate presided over magic and enchantments, and was generally represented as having the head of a horse, dog or boar, though sometimes she is represented with three bodies, and three heads looking different ways. Shakespeare introduces her in his tragedy of _Macbeth_ (act iii. sc. 5), as queen of the witches; but the witches of Macbeth have been largely borrowed from a drama called _The Witch_, by Thom. Middleton (died 1626). The following is a specimen of this indebtedness:— _Hecate._ Black spirits and white, red spirits and grey. Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.... _1st Witch._ Here’s the blood of a bat. _Hecate._ Put in that, oh, put in that. _2nd Witch._ Here’s libbard’s bane. _Hecate._ Put in again, etc., etc. Middleton, _The Witch_. And yonder pale-faced Hecate there, the moon, Doth give consent to that is done in darkness. Thom. Kyd, _The Spanish Tragedy_ (1597). =Hector=, one of the sons of Priam, king of Troy. This bravest and ablest of all the Trojan chiefs was generalissimo of the allied armies, and was slain in the last year of the war by Achillês, who, with barbarous fury, dragged the dead body insultingly thrice round the tomb of Patroclos and the walls of the beleagured city.—Homer, _Iliad_. =Hector de Mares= (_1 syl._) or Marys, a knight of the Round Table, brother of Sir Launcelot du Lac. The gentle Gaw´ain’s courteous love, Hector de Mares, and Pellinore. Sir W. Scott, _Bridal of Triermain_, ii. 13 (1813). =Hector of Germany=, Joachim II., elector of Brandenburg (1514-1571). =Hector of the Mist=, an outlaw, killed by Allan M’Aulay.—Sir W. Scott, _Legend of Montrose_ (time, Charles I.).