I will help to bridle the two-legged mare. _Like Will to Like, etc._ (1587). =Two-Shoes= (_Goody_), a nursery tale by Oliver Goldsmith (1765). Goody Two-shoes was a very poor child, whose delight at having a _pair_ of shoes was so unbounded that she could not forbear telling every one she met that she had “two shoes,” whence her name. She acquired knowledge and became wealthy. The title-page states that the tale is for the benefit of those Who from a state of rags and care, And having shoes but half a pair, Their fortune and their fame should fix, And gallop in a coach and six. =Two Strings to Your Bow=, a farce by Jephson (1792). Lazarillo, wanting a master, enters the service of Don Felix and also of Octavio at the same time. He makes perpetual blunders, such as giving letters and money to the wrong master; but it turns out that Don Felix is Donna Clara, the betrothed of Octavio. The lovers meet at the Eagle hotel, recognize each other, and become man and wife. =Two Unlucky.= In our dynasties two has been an unlucky number; thus: Ethelred II. was forced to abdicate; Harold II. was slain at Hastings; William II. was shot in the New Forest; Henry II. had to fight for his crown, which was usurped by Stephen; Edward II. was murdered at Berkeley Castle; Richard II. was deposed; Charles II. was driven into exile; James II. was obliged to abdicate; George II. was worsted at Fontenoy and Lawfeld, was disgraced by General Braddock and Admiral Byng, and was troubled by Charles Edward, the Young Pretender. =Tyb´alt=, a fiery young nobleman of Verona, nephew to Lady Capŭlet, and cousin to Juliet. He is slain in combat by Ro´meo.--Shakespeare, _Romeo and Juliet_ (1595). The name is given to the _cat_ in the beast-epic called _Reynard the Fox_. Hence Mercutio calls him “rat-catcher” (act iii. sc. 1), and when Tybalt demands of him, “What wouldst thou have with me?” Mercutio replies, “Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine lives” (act iii. sc. 1). _Tybalt_, a Lombard officer, in love with Laura, niece of Duke Gondibert. The story of _Gondibert_ being unfinished, no sequel of this attachment is given.--Sir W. Davenant, _Gondibert_ (died 1668). _Tybalt_ or _Tibert_, the cat in the beast-epic of _Reynard the Fox_ (1498). =Tyburn= (_Kings of_), hangmen. =Tyburn Tree= (_The_), a gallows; so called because criminals at one time hung on the elm trees which grew on the banks of the Tyburn. The “Holy Maid of Kent,” Mrs. Turner, the poisoner, Felton, the assassin of the duke of Buckingham, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, Lord Ferrers, who murdered his steward, Dr. Dodd and Mother Brownrigg, “all died in their shoes” on the Tyburn tree.