Nine Worthies

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plural noun

1. three pagan, three Jewish, and three Christian heroes mentioned together in medieval romances, usually including Hector, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Joshua, David, Judas Maccabaeus, Arthur, Charlemagne, and Godefroy de Bouillon.

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Nine Worthies

Is the presentation of the Nine Worthies too absurd in itself to mix well with the courtliness, learning, and elaborate wit of the rest of the Play?

From Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies by Porter, Charlotte Endymion

It will go down easier, I say, if you'll just work in some portraits of our Nine Worthies.

From Under the Skylights by Fuller, Henry Blake

Nymphs and fairies, the Nine Worthies, or the Golden Age might find representation by almost any village pedagog and his school children.

From How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest by Kipling, Rudyard

In Act V. Scene ii., in lines that pertain to the revision of 1598, he is made to take the soldier's part again, in giving him the character of Hector in The Nine Worthies.

From Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Acheson, Arthur

To Charles V he shewed David, Solomon, Gideon, and the rest, with the Nine Worthies, in their habits and similitude as they had lived.

From Lives of the Necromancers by Godwin, William