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678 he was the ancestor of the family of Henryson or Henderson of Fordell, in the county of Fife, one of whom, James Hdnrysjn, was king s advocate and justice-clerk in. Of the poet s parentage and early history, however, no certain information can be discovered. From various circumstances known about him he must have been born about. He seems to have been educated abroad, as his name does not appear in the registers of the university of St Andrews, the only one then existing in Scotland ; and from an allusion in one of his poems, his attention was probably given to the study of law. In his name appears in the list of members of the newly-founded university of Glasgow as &quot;Magister Robertus Henrysone in artibus licentiatus et in decretis Bachalarius.&quot; Henryson seems, in addition to teaching, to have practised at Dunfermline as a notary public. His decease in or shortly before is alluded to by Dunbar, who, in his lament for the &quot; makaris &quot; or poets, says of Death—

&quot; In Dunfermline he lies done roun Gud Maister Robert Heurisoun.&quot;

1em  HENSLOWE,, a contemporary of Shakespeare, whose name continues of interest from his intimate association with the history of the theatre during the great dramatist s career. Originally, it would appear, a dyer and afterwards a starchmaker, and ready -to turn to any profit able speculation, he probably began his connexion with the stage in by becoming &quot;joint lessee of the Rose theatre on the Bankside, or of the ground on which it stood.&quot; From to his death in 1616 he was in theatrical partnership with the more famous Edward Alleyn, who in  married his step-daughter Joan Woodward. In 1613 he was appointed sergeant of the king s bear-garden, to take charge of a lion and certain other beasts presented by the duke of Savoy. Henslowe s business diary from to  has happily been preserved in Alleyn s College at Dulwich, and, though evidently the work of an ignorant man, it is of prime importance for its miscellaneous store of items in regard to the first appearance of plays, the sums paid to the authors, the theatre receipts, and so on. It was edited for the Shakespeare Society in 1841 by J. Payne Collier, who, however, found that the MS. had suffered considerable mutilation at the hands of miscreant autograph hunters since the time when it was employed by its original discoverer Malone. See.  HENZADA, a district in Pegu division, British Burmah, lying between 16 49 and 18 30 N. lat., and between 94&quot; 51 and 96 7 E. long., with an area of 4047 square miles. It is bounded on the N. by the Prome district, on the E. by the Pegu Yomas, on the S. by Rangoon, Thonkhwa, and Bassein districts, and on the W. by the Arakan Yoma range. Henzada district stretches from north to south in one vast plain, forming the valley of the Irawadi, and is divided by that river into two nearly equal portions. This country is protected from inundation by immense embankments, so that almost the whole area is suitable for rice cultivation. The chief mountains are the Arakan and Pegu Yoma ranges. The greatest elevation of the Arakan Yomas in Henzada, attained in the latitude of Myau-oung, is 4003 feet above sea-level. Numerous torrents pour down from the two boundary ranges, and unite in the plains to form large streams, which fall into the chief rivers of the district, viz,, the Irawadi, Hlaing, and Bassein. The forests comprise almost every variety of timber found in Burmah.

1em 1em  HEPATICA. See.  HEPHÆSTION, son of Amyntor, a Macedonian of Pella, is celebrated as the friend of Alexander the Great. The two, according to Quintius Curtius (iii. 12), were com panions in childhood, but beyond this old-standing con nexion we find no evidence of such qualities in Hephaestion as deserved the passionate attachment of Alexander. The king, however, seems never to have been blind to his real character, and to have made a marked distinction between him, as the friend of his private life and his leisure hours, and such men as Craterus, whom he could entrust with important enterprises. We do not hear again of Hephaestion till, when he accompanied the king on his visit to Troy. Many tales are told of the close intimacy subsist ing between them ; for example, Plutarch says that, when a letter of very delicate and private nature from Olympias was handed to Alexander, Hephasstion according to his custom was reading it over his shoulder, when Alexander without uttering a word took his ring off his finger and pressed it on his friend s lips. In the later campaigns of Alexander in Bactria and India, we find Hephsestion charged with important commands. He was rewarded with a golden crown and the hand of Drypetis, the daughter of Darius and sister of Alexander s own wife Statira. In the end of the he died very suddenly at Ecbatana. Alexander tried to relieve his grief by paying the most extravagant honours to his friend. A general mourning was ordered over Asia; at Babylon a funeral pile was erected at a cost of 10,000 talents ; and temples were erected to him as a hero.  HEPHÆSTION, a grammarian of Alexandria, author of a work on Greek metres called ey^eipt Stov 7repl /jifrpuv. This work is most valuable as the only complete work on the subject that has been preserved. The author is pro- 