=Tofts= (_Mistress_), a famous singer towards the close of the eighteenth century. She was very fond of cats, and left a legacy to twenty of the tabby tribe. Not Niobê mourned more for fourteen brats, Nor Mistress Tofts, to leave her twenty cats. Peter Pindar [Dr. Wolcot], _Old Simon_ (1809). =Toinette=, a confidential female servant of Argan, the _malade imaginaire_. “Adroite, soigneuse, diligente, et surtout fidèle,” but contractious, and always calling into action her master’s irritable temper. In order to cure him, she pretends to be a travelling physician of about 90 years of age, although she has not seen twenty-six summers; and in the capacity of a Galen, declares M. Argan is suffering from lungs, recommends that one arm should be cut off, and one eye taken out to strengthen the remaining one. She enters into a plot to open the eyes of Argan to the real affection of Angelique (his daughter), the false love of her stepmother, and to marry the former to Cléante, the man of her choice, in all which schemes she is fully successful.--Molière, _Le Malade Imaginaire_ (1673). =Toison d’Or=, chief herald of Burgundy.--Sir W. Scott, _Quentin Durward_, and _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.). =Toki=, the Danish William Tell. Saxo Grammaticus, a Danish writer of the twelfth century, tells us that Toki once boasted, in the hearing of Harald Bluetooth, that he could hit an apple with his arrow off a pole; and the Danish Gessler set him to try his skill by placing an apple on the head of the archer’s son (twelfth century). =Tolande of Anjou=, a daughter of old King Réné of Provence, and sister of Margaret of Anjou (wife of Henry VI. of England).--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.). =Tolbooth= (_The_), the principal prison of Edinburgh. The Tolbooth felt defrauded of his charms If Jeffrey died, except within her arms. Byron, _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_ (1809). Lord Byron refers to the “duel” between Francis Jeffrey, editor of the _Edinburgh Review_, and Thomas Moore, the poet, at Chalk Farm, in 1806. The duel was interrupted, and it was then found that neither of the pistols contained a bullet. Can none remember the eventful day, That ever-glorious, almost fatal fray, When Little’s [_Thomas Moore_] leadless pistol met his eye, And Bow Street myrmidons stood laughing by? Ditto. =Tolme´tes= (3 _syl._), Foolhardiness personified in _The Purple Island_, fully described in canto viii. His companions were Arrogance, Brag, Carelessness, and Fear. (Greek, _tolmêtês_, “a foolhardy man.”) Thus ran the rash Tolmetes, never viewing The fearful fiends that duly him attended ... Much would he boldly do, but much more boldly vaunt. P. Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, viii. (1633).