=Trotwood= (_Betsey_), usually called “Miss Betsey,” great aunt of David Copperfield. Her idiosyncrasy was donkeys. A dozen times a day would she rush on the green before her house to drive off the donkeys, and donkey-boys. She was a most kind-hearted, worthy woman, who concealed her tenderness of heart under a snappish austerity of manner. Miss Betsey was the true friend of David Copperfield. She married in her young days a handsome man, who ill-used her, and ran away, but preyed on her for money till he died.--C. Dickens, _David Copperfield_ (1849). =Trouil´logan=, a philosopher, whose advice was, “Do as you like.” Panurge asked the sage if he advised him to marry. “Yes,” said Trouillogan. “What say you?” asked the prince. “Let it alone,” replied the sage. “Which would you advise?” inquired the prince. “Neither,” said the sage. “Neither?” cried Panurge; “that cannot be.” “Then both,” replied Trouillogan. Panurge then consulted several others, and at last the oracle of the Holy Bottle.--Rabelais, _Pantagruel_, iii. 35 (1545). Molière has introduced this joke in his _Marriage Forcé_ (1664). Sganarelle asks his friend Géronimo, if he would advise him to marry, and he answers “No.” “But,” says the old man, “I like the young woman.” “Then marry her, by all means.” “That is your advice?” says Sganarelle. “My advice is, do as you like,” says the friend. Sganarelle next consults two philosophers, then some gypsies, then declines to marry, and is at last compelled to do so, _nolens volens_. =Trovato´re= (4 _syl._), or “The Troubadour” in Manrico, the supposed son of Azuce´na, the gypsy, but in reality, the son of Garzia (brother of the conte di Luna). The Princess Leono´ra falls in love with the troubadour, but the count, entertaining a base passion for her, is about to put Manrico to death, when Leonora intercedes on his behalf, and promises to give herself to him, if he will spare her lover. The count consents; but while he goes to release his captive Leonora kills herself by sucking poison from a ring. When Manrico discovers this sad calamity, he dies also.--Verdi, _Il Trovatore_ (1853). (This opera is based on the drama of _Gargia Guttierez_, a fifteenth century story.) =Troxartas= (3 _syl._), king of the mice, and father of Psycarpax, who was drowned. The word means “bread-eater.” Fix their counsel ... Where great Troxartas crowned in glory reigns ... Psycarpax’ father, father now no more! Parnell, _Battle of the Frogs and Mice_, i. (about 1712). =Trudge=, in _Love in a Bottle_, by Farquhar (1698). =True Thomas=, Thomas the Rhymer. So called from his prophecies, the most noted of which was his prediction of the death of Alexander III. of Scotland, made to the earl of March. It is recorded in the _Scotichronĭcon_ of Fordun (1430).