=Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn.= Anne Boleyn was the second wife of Henry VIII. He divorced Katharine of Aragon in order to marry Anne; wearied of her in turn, and had her beheaded in 1536. =He´par=, the Liver personified, the arch-city in _The Purple Island_, by Phineas Fletcher. Fully described in canto iii. (1633). =Hephæs´tos=, the Greek name for Vulcan. The Vulcanic period of geology is that unknown period before the creation of man, when the molten granite and buried metals were upheaved by internal heat, through the overlying strata, sometimes even to the very surface of the earth. The early dawn and dusk of Time. The reign of dateless old Hephæstus. Longfellow, _The Golden Legend_ (1851). =Hepzibah= (_Pyncheon_), gentlewoman, reduced to the necessity of keeping a small shop in the ancient homestead. She idolizes her brother _Clifford_, a melancholy, refined man, who, terrified by an empty threat of his cousin, Judge Pyncheon, flees the house. Hepzibah goes with him. Recovering from their panic, they return in time to avoid the suspicion of having caused the Judge’s sudden death, which makes them rich.—Nathaniel Hawthorne, _House of the Seven Gables_ (1851). =Herbert= (_Sir William_), friend of Sir Hugo de Lacy.—Sir W. Scott, _The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.). =Her´culês= shot Nessus for offering insult to his wife Dei´-j-a-nī-ra, and the dying centaur told Deijanira that if she dipped in his blood her husband’s shirt, she would secure his love forever. Herculês, being about to offer sacrifice, sent Lichas for the shirt; but no sooner was it warmed by the heat of his body than it caused such excruciating agony that the hero went mad, and seizing Lichas, he flung him into the sea. _Herculés Mad_ is the subject of a Greek tragedy by Eurip´idês, and of a Latin one by Sen´eca. As when Alcīdês ... felt the envenomed robe, and tore, Thro’ pain, up by the roots Thessalian pines, And Lichas from the top of Œta [_a mount_] threw Into the Euboic Sea [_The Archipelago_]. Milton, _Paradise Lost_, ii. 542, etc. [1665]. ⁂ Diodōrus says there were three Herculêses; Cicero recognizes six (three of which were Greeks, one Egyptian, one Cretan, and one Indian); Varro says there were forty-three. _Herculés’s Choice_. When Herculês was a young man, he was accosted by two women, Pleasure and Virtue, and asked to choose which he would follow. Pleasure promised him all carnal delights, but Virtue promised him immortality. Herculês gave his hand to the latter, and hence led a life of great toil, but was ultimately received amongst the immortals.—Xenophon.