=Sorel= (_Agnes_), surnamed _La dame de Beauté_, not from her personal beauty, but from the “château de Beauté,” on the banks of the Marne, given to her by Charles VII. (1409-1450). =Sorento= (in Naples), the birthplace of Torquato Tasso, the Italian poet. =Sorrows of Werther=, a mawkish, sentimental novel by Goethe (1774), once extremely popular. Werther, the hero of the story, loves a married woman, and becomes disgusted with life because Charlotte [Lotte] is the wife of his friend, Kestner. _Werther_, infusing itself into the core and whole spirit of literature, gave birth to a race of sentimentalists, who raged and wailed in every part of the world till better light dawned on them, or, at any rate, till exhausted nature laid itself to sleep, and it was discovered that lamenting was an unproductive labor.--Carlyle. =Sosia= (in Molière, _Sosie_), the slave of Amphitryon. When Mercury assumes the form of Sosia, and Jupiter that of Amphitryon, the mistakes and confusion which arise resemble those of the brothers Antiph´olus and their servants, the brothers Dromio, in Shakespeare’s _Comedy of Errors_.--Plautus, Molière (1668), and Dryden (1690), _Amphitryon_. His first name ... looks out upon him like another Sosia, or as if a man should suddenly encounter his own duplicate.--C. Lamb. =Sosii=, brothers, the name of two booksellers at Rome, referred to by Horace. =So´tenville= (_Mon. le baron de_), father of Angélique, and father-in-law of George Dandin. His wife was of the house of Prudoterie, and both boasted that in 300 years no one of their distinguished lines ever swerved from virtue. “La bravoure n’y est pas plus hérdéitaire aux mâles que la chasteté aux femelles.” They lived with their son-in-law, who was allowed the honor of paying their debts, and receiving a snubbing every time he opened his mouth, that he might be taught the mysteries of the _haut monde_.--Molière, _George Dandin_ (1668). =Soulis= (_Lord William_), a man of prodigious strength, cruelty, avarice and treachery. Old Redcap gave him a charmed life, which nothing could affect “till threefold ropes of sand were twisted round his body.” Lord Soulis waylaid May, the lady-love of the heir of Branxholm, and kept her in durance till she promised to become his bride. Walter, the brother of the young heir, raised his father’s liegemen, and invested the castle. Lord Soulis having fallen into the hands of the liegemen, “they wrapped him in lead, and flung him into a caldron, till lead, bones, and all were melted.”--John Leyden (1802). (The caldron is still shown in the Skelfhill, at Ninestane Rig, part of the range of hills which separates Liddesdale and Teviotdale.) =South= (_Squire_), the Archduke Charles of Austria.--Arbuthnot, _History of John Bull_ (1712). =Southampton= (_The earl of_), the friend of the earl of Essex, and involved with him in the charge of treason, but pardoned.--Henry Jones, _The Earl of Essex_ (1745).