⁂ Arthur first cut off Orgoglio’s _left arm_, _i. e._ Bohemia was cut off first from the Church of Rome; then he cut off the giant’s _right leg_, _i. e._ England. =Orgon=, brother-in-law of Tartuffe (2 _syl._). His credulity and faith in Tartuffe, like that of his mother, can scarcely be shaken even by the evidence of his senses. He hopes against hope, and fights every inch of ground in defence of the religious hypocrite.--Molière, _Tartuffe_ (1664). =Oria´na=, daughter of Lisuarte, king of England, and spouse of Am´adis of Gaul (bk. ii. 6). The general plot of this series of romances bears on this marriage, and tells of the thousand and one obstacles from rivals, giants, sorcerers and so on, which had to be overcome before the consummation could be effected. It is in this unity of plot that the Amadis series differs from its predecessors--the Arthurian romances, and those of the paladins of Charlemagne, which are detached adventures, each complete in itself, and not bearing to any common focus.--_Amadis de Gaul_ (fourteenth century). ⁂ Queen Elizabeth is called “the peerless Oriana,” especially in the madrigals entitled _The Triumphs of Oriana_ (1601). Ben Jonson applies the name to the queen of James I. (_Oriens Anna_). _Oriana_, the nursling of a lioness, with whom Esplandian fell in love, and for whom he underwent all his perils and exploits. She was the gentlest, fairest, and most faithful of her sex.--Lobeira, _Amadis de Gaul_ (fourteenth century). _Orian´a_, the fair, brilliant, and witty “chaser” of the “wild goose” Mirabel, to whom she is betrothed, and whose wife she ultimately becomes.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Wild-Goose Chase_ (1652). _Oriana_, the ward of old Mirabel, and bound by contract to her guardian’s son whom she loves; but young Mirabel shilly-shallies, till he gets into trouble with Lamorce (3 _syl._), and is in danger of being murdered, when Oriana, dressed as a page, rescues him. He then declared that his “inconstancy has had a lesson,” and he marries the lady.--G. Farquhar, _The Inconstant_ (1702). _Oriana_, in Tennyson’s ballad so called, “stood on the castle wall,” to see her spouse, a Norland chief, fight. A foeman went between “the chief, and the wall,” and discharged an arrow, which, glancing aside, pierced the lady’s heart and killed her. The ballad is the lamentation of the spouse on the death of his bride (1830). =O´riande= (3 _syl._), a fay who lived at Rosefleur, and was brought up by Maugis d’Aygremont. When her _protégé_ grew up, she loved him, “d’un si grand amour, qu’elle doute fort qu’il ne se departe d’avecques elle.”--_Romance de Maujis d’Aygremont et de Vivian son Frère._ =O´riel=, a fairy, whose empire lay along the banks of the Thames, when King Oberon held his court in Kensington Gardens.--Tickell, _Kensington Gardens_ (1686-1740). =Orient= (_The_). In _The New Priest of Conception Bay_, Fanny Dare sings to little Mary Barré how the good ship _Orient_ was wrecked.