=Spado=, an impudent rascal, in the band of Don Cæsar (called “Captain Ramirez”), who tricks every one, and delights in mischief.--O’Keefe, _Castle of Andalusia_ (1798). Quick’s great parts were “Isaac,” “Tony Lumpkin,” “Spado,” and “Sir Christopher Curry.”--_Records of a Stage Veteran._ (“Isaac,” in the _Duenna_, by Sheridan; “Tony Lumpkin,” in _She Stoops to Conquer_, by Goldsmith; “Sir Christopher Curry,” in _Inkle and Yarico_, by G. Colman.) =Spahis=, native Algerian cavalry, officered by Frenchmen. The infantry are called _Turcos_. =Spanish Brutus= (_The_), Alfonso Perez de Guzman, governor of Tarifa, in 1293. Here he was besieged by the infant, Don Juan, who had Guzman’s son in his power, and threatened to kill him unless Tarifa was given up. Alfonso replied, “Sooner than be guilty of such treason, I will lend Juan a dagger to carry out his threat;” and so saying, he tossed his dagger over the wall. Juan, unable to appreciate this patriotism, slew the young man without remorse. ⁂ Lopê de Vega has dramatized this incident. =Spanish Curate= (_The_), Lopez.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Spanish Curate_ (1622). =Spanish Fryar= (_The_), a drama by Dryden (1680). It contains two plots, wholly independent of each other. The serious element is this: Leonora, the usurping queen of Aragon, is promised in marriage to Duke Bertran, a prince of the blood; but is in love with Torrismond, general of the army, who turns out to be the son and heir of King Sancho, supposed to be dead. Sancho is restored to his throne, and Leonora marries Torrismond. The comic element is the illicit love of Colonel Lorenzo for Elvīra, the wife of Gomez, a rich old banker. Dominick (the Spanish fryar) helps on this scandalous amour, but it turns out that Lorenzo and Elvira are brother and sister. =Spanish Lady= (_The_), a ballad contained in Percy’s _Reliques_, ii. 23. A Spanish lady fell in love with Captain Popham, whose prisoner she was. A command being sent to set all the prisoners free, the lady prayed the gallant captain to make her his wife. The Englishman replied that he could not do so, as he was married already. On hearing this the Spanish lady gave him a chain of gold and a pearl bracelet to take to his wife, and told him that she should retire to a nunnery and spend the rest of her life praying for their happiness. It will be stuck up with the ballad of _Margaret’s Ghost_ [_q.v._] and the _Spanish Lady_, against the walls of every cottage in the country.--Isaac Bickerstaff, _Love in a Village_ (1763). =Spanish Tragedy= (_The_), by T. Kyd (1597). Horatio (son of Hieronimo) is murdered while he is sitting in an arbor with Belimperia. Balthazar, the rival of Horatio, commits the murder, assisted by Belimperia’s brother, Lorenzo. The murderers hang the dead body on a tree in the garden, where Hieronimo, roused by the cries of Belimperia, discovers it, and goes raving mad. =Spanker= (_Lady Gay_), in _London Assurance_, by D. Boucicault (1841).