Chapter XXIV: Part 24

=Margaret Catchpole=, a Suffolk celebrity, born at Nacton, in that county, in 1773; the title and heroine of a tale by the Rev. R. Cobbold. She falls in love with a smuggler named Will Laud, and in 1797, in order to reach him, steals a horse from Mr. J. Cobbold, brewer, of Ipswich, in whose service she had lived much respected. She dresses herself in the groom’s clothes, and makes her way to London, where she is detected while selling the horse, and is put in prison. She is sentenced to death at the Suffolk assizes—a sentence afterwards commuted to one of seven years’ transportation. Owing to a difficulty in sending prisoners to New South Wales, she is confined in Ipswich jail; but from here she makes her escape, joins Laud, who is shot in her defence. Margaret is recaptured, and again sentenced to death, which is for the second time commuted to transportation, this time for life, and she arrives at Port Jackson in 1801. Here, by her good behavior, she obtains a free pardon, and ultimately marries a former lover named John Barry, who had emigrated and risen to a high position in the colony. She died, much respected, in the year 1841.

=Margaret Debree.= Young girl of noble and beautiful nature whose latent ambition is aroused by her marriage to the successful speculator, Rodney Henderson. She becomes a society leader and woman of fashion, and dies at the height of her popularity.—Charles Dudley Warner, _A Little Journey in the World_ (1889).

=Margaret Finch=, queen of the gypsies. She was born at Sutton, in Kent (1631), and finally settled in Norway. From a constant habit of sitting on the ground, with her chin on her knees, she was unable to stand, and when dead was buried in a square box; 1740, aged 109 years.

_Margaret._ Bright-faced, sweet-hearted heroine of _The Stillwater Tragedy_, by T. B. Aldrich (1886).

=Margaret Gibson=, afterwards called _Patten_, a famous Scotch cook, who was employed in the palace of James I. She was born in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and died June 26, 1739, either 136 or 141 years of age.

=Margaret Kent= (See KENT).

=Margaret Lamburn=, one of the servants of Mary, queen of Scots, who undertook to avenge the death of her royal mistress. For this end, she dressed in man’s clothes and carried two pistols—one to shoot Queen Elizabeth and the other herself. She had reached the garden where the queen was walking, when she accidentally dropped one of the pistols, was seized, carried before the queen, and frantically told her tale. When the queen asked how she expected to be treated, Margaret replied, “A judge would condemn me to death, but it would be more royal to grant me pardon.” The queen did so, and we hear no more of this fanatic.

=Margaret Simon=, daughter of Martin Simon, the miller of Grenoble; a brave, beautiful, and noble girl.—E. Stirling, _The Gold-Mine or Miller of Grenoble_ (1854.)

=Margaret of Anjou=, widow of king Henry VI. of England. She presents herself, disguised as a mendicant, in Strasburg Cathedral, to Philipson (_i.e._ the earl of Oxford).—Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).

=Margaret’s Ghost=, a ballad by David Mallet (1724). William courted the fair Margaret, but jilted her; he promised love, but broke his promise; said her face was fair, her lips sweet, and her eyes bright, but left the face to pale, the eyes to weep and the maid to languish and die. Her ghost appeared to him at night to rebuke his heartlessness; and next morning William left his bed raving mad, hied him to Margaret’s grave, thrice called her by name, “and never word spake more.”

We shall have ballads made of it within two months, setting forth how a young squire became a serving-man of low degree, and it will be stuck up with _Margaret’s Ghost_ against the walls of every cottage in the country.—I. Bickerstaff, _Love in a Village_ (1763).

=Margaret Regis.= American girl of decided views and strong, sweet nature, brought up by a step-mother whom she is slow to appreciate, but in the end loves truly. Margaret outgrows an early fancy, and, when released from the letter of her engagement, bestows her hand with her heart upon General Paul Rushleigh.—A. D. T. Whitney, _Sights and Insights_ (1875).

=Margaretta=, a maiden attached to Robin. Her father wanted her to marry “a stupid old man, because he was rich;” so she ran away from home and lived as a ballad-singer. Robin emigrated for three years, and made his fortune. He was wrecked on the coast of Cornwall, on his return, and met Margaretta at the house of Farmer Crop, his brother-in-law, when the acquaintance was renewed. (See NO SONG, etc.)—Hoare, _No Song No Supper_ (1754-1834).

=Margarit´ta= (_Donna_), a Spanish heiress, “fair, young, and wealthy,” who resolves to marry that she may the more freely indulge her wantonness. She selects Leon for her husband, because she thinks him a milksop, whom she can twist round her thumb at pleasure; but no sooner is Leon married than he shows himself the master. By ruling with great firmness and affection, he wins the esteem of every one, and the wanton coquette becomes a modest, devoted, and obedient wife.—Beaumont and Fletcher, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_ (1640).

=Margery= (_Dame_), the old nurse of Lady Eveline Berenger “the betrothed.”—Sir W. Scott, _The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.).

=Margheri´ta=, a simple, uncultured girl, of great fascination, seduced by Faust. Margherita killed the infant of her shame, and was sent to jail for so doing. In jail she lost her reason, and was condemned to death. When Faust visited her in prison, and tried to persuade her to flee with him, she refused. Faust was carried off by demons, and Margherita was borne by angels up to heaven; the intended moral being, that the repentant sinner is triumphant.—Gounod, _Faust e Margherita_ (1859).

=Margheri´ta di Valois=, daughter of Catherine de Medicis and Henri II. of France. She marries Henri _le Bearnais_ (afterwards Henri IV. of France). It was during the wedding solemnities of Margherita and Henri that Catherine de Medicis carried out the massacre of the French Huguenots. The bride was at a ball during this horrible slaughter.—Meyerbeer, _Les Huguenots_ or _Gli Ugonotti_ (1836).

⁂ François I. used to call her _La Marguerite des Marguerites_ (“The Pearl of Pearls”).

=Margia´na= (_Queen_), a Mussulman, and mortal enemy of the fire-worshippers. Prince Assad became her slave, but, being stolen by the crew of Behram, was carried off. The queen gave chase to the ship; Assad was thrown overboard, and swam to shore. The queen with an army demanded back her slave, discovered that Assad was a prince, and that his half-brother was king of the city to which she had come, whereupon she married him, and carried him home to her own dominions.—_Arabian Nights_ (“Amgiad and Assad”).

=Marjorie= (_Pet_), child of singular promise, a great pet with Sir Walter Scott. She died under the age of ten. Her story is written by Dr. John Brown, author of _Rab and His Friends_.

=Margutte= (3 _syl._), a low-minded, vulgar giant, ten feet high, with enormous appetite and of the grossest sensuality. He died of laughter on seeing a monkey pulling on his boots.—Pulci, _Morgantê Maggiorê_ (1488).

Chalchas, the Homeric soothsayer, died of laughter. (See LAUGHTER.)

=Marguerite=, French exile and maid-servant lies dying, nursed by a hard, cold mistress. The son of the house steals into the room and avows his love for the alien.

“He called back the soul that was passing,
‘Marguerite! do you hear,’”

* * * * *

“With his heart on his lips he kissed her,
But never her cheek grew red,
And the words the living long for
He spake in the ear of the dead.”
John Greenleaf Whittier, _Marguerite_.

=Marhaus= (_Sir_), a knight of the Round Table, a king’s son, and brother of the queen of Ireland. When Sir Mark, king of Cornwall, refused to pay truage to Anguish, king of Ireland, Sir Marhaus was sent to defy Sir Mark and all his knights to single combat. No one durst go against him; but Tristram said, if Mark would knight him, he would defend his cause. In the combat, Sir Tristram was victorious. With his sword he cut through his adversary’s helmet and brain-pan, and his sword stuck so fast in the bone that he had to pull thrice before he could extricate it. Sir Marhaus contrived to get back to Ireland, but soon died.—Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, ii. 7, 8 (1470).

⁂ Sir Marhaus carried a white shield; but as he hated women, twelve damsels spat thereon, to show how they dishonored him.—Ditto, pt. i. 75.

=Maria=, a lady in attendance on the princess of France. Mongaville, a young lord in the suite of Ferdinand, king of Navarre, asks her to marry him, but she defers her answer for twelve months. To this Longaville replies, “I’ll stay with patience, but the time is long;” and Maria makes answer, “The liker you; few taller are so young.”—Shakespeare, _Love’s Labor’s Lost_ (1594).

_Maria_, the waiting-woman of the Countess Olivia.—Shakespeare, _Twelfth Night_ (1614).

_Maria_, wife of Frederick, the unnatural and licentious brother of Alphonso, king of Naples. She is a virtuous lady, and appears in strong contrast to her infamous husband.—Beaumont and Fletcher, _A Wife for a Month_ (1624).

_Maria_, daughter and only child of Thorowgood, a wealthy London merchant. She is in love with George Barnwell, her father’s apprentice; but George is executed for robbery and murder.—George Lillo, _George Barnwell_ (1732).

A dying man sent for David Ross, the actor [1728-1790], and addressed him thus: “Some forty years ago, like ‘George Barnwell’ I wronged my master to supply the unbounded extravagance of a ‘Millwood.’ I took her to see your performance, which so shocked me that I vowed to break the connection and return to the path of virtue. I kept my resolution, replaced the money I had stolen, and found a ‘Maria’ in my master’s daughter.... I have now left £1000 affixed to your name in my will and testament.”—Pelham, _Chronicles of Crime_.

_Maria_, the ward of Sir Peter Teazle. She is in love with Charles Surface, whom she ultimately marries.—Sheridan, _School for Scandal_ (1777).

_Maria_, “The maid of the Oaks,” brought up as the ward of Oldworth, of Oldworth Oaks, but is in reality his daughter and heiress. Maria is engaged to Sir Harry Groveby, and Harry says, “She is the most charmingest, sweetest, delightfulest, mildest, beautifulest, modestest, genteelest young creature in the world.”—J. Burgoyne, _The Maid of the Oaks_.

_Maria_, a maiden whose banns were forbidden, “by the curate of the parish who published them;” in consequence of which, Maria lost her wits, and used to sit on the roadside near Moulines (2 _syl._), playing on a pipe vesper hymns to the Virgin. She led by a ribbon a little dog named Silvio, of which she was very jealous, for at one time she had a favorite goat that forsook her.—Sterne, _Sentimental Journey_ (1768).

_Maria_, a foundling, discovered by Sulpizio, a sergeant of the 11th regiment of Napoleon’s Grand Army, and adopted by the regiment as their daughter. Tonio, a Tyrolese, saved her life and fell in love with her. But just as they were about to be married the marchioness of Birkenfield claimed the foundling as her own daughter, and the sutler girl had to quit the regiment for the castle. After a time, the castle was taken by the French, and although the marchioness had promised Maria in marriage to another, she consented to her union with Tonio, who had risen to the rank of a field-officer.—Donizetti, _La Figlia del Reggimento_ (an opera, 1840).

=Maria= [=Delaval=], daughter of colonel Delaval. Plighted to Mr. Versatile, but just previous to the marriage Mr. Versatile, by the death of his father, came into a large fortune and baronetcy. The marriage was deferred; Mr. (now Sir George) Versatile went abroad, and became a man of fashion. They met, the attachment was renewed, and the marriage consummated.

=Maria= [=Latham.=] “An elderly woman with a plain, honest face, as kindly in expression as she can be perfectly sure she feels, and no more;” aunt to Lydia Blood. When she hears that the stewardess on the _Aroostook_ is a boy, and the cook not a woman, she is slightly confounded, but rallies under the conviction that “Lyddy’ll know how to conduct herself wherever she is.”—W. D. Howells, _The Lady of the Aroostook_ (1879).

=Maria= [WILDING], daughter of Sir Jasper Wilding. She is in love with Beaufort; and, being promised in marriage against her will to George Philpot, disgusts him purposely by her silliness. George refuses to marry her, and she gives her hand to Beaufort.—Murphy, _The Citizen_ (1757).

=Maria Theresa Panza=, wife of Sancho Panza. She is sometimes called Maria, and sometimes Theresa.—Cervantes, _Don Quixote_ (1605).

=Mariage Forcé= (_Le_). Sganarelle, a rich man of 64, promises marriage to Dorimène (3 _syl._), a girl under 20, but, having scruples about the matter, consults his friend, two philosophers, and the gypsies, from none of whom can he obtain any practical advice. At length, he overhears Dorimène telling a young lover that she only marries the old man for his money, and that he cannot live above a few months; so the old man goes to the father and declines the alliance. On this, the father sends his son to Sganarelle. The young man takes with him two swords, and with the utmost politeness and _sang-froid_ requests Mons. to choose one. When the old man declines to do so, the young man gives him a thorough drubbing, and again with the utmost politeness requests the old man to make his choice. On his again declining to do so, he is again beaten, and at last consents to ratify the marriage.—Molière, _Le Mariage Forcé_ (1664).

=Mariamne=, (4 _syl._), a Jewish princess, daughter of Alexander and wife of Herod, “the Great.” Mariamnê was the mother of Alexander and Aristobu´lus, both of whom Herod put to death in a fit of jealousy, and then fell into a state of morbid madness, in which he fancied he saw Mariamnê and heard her asking for her sons.

⁂ This has been made the subject of several tragedies: _e.g._ A. Harley, _Mariamne_ (1622); Pierre Tristan l’Ermite, _Mariamne_ (1640); Voltaire, _Mariamne_ (1724).

=Marian=, “the Muses’ only darling,” is Margaret, countess of Cumberland, sister of Anne, countess of Warwick.

Fair Marian, the Muses’ only darling,
Whose beauty shineth as the morning clear,
With silver dew upon the roses pearling.
Spenser, _Colin Clout’s Come Home Again_ (1595).

_Marian_, “the parson’s maid,” in love with Colin Clout, who loves Cicely. Marian sings a ditty of dole, in which she laments for Colin, and says how he gave her once a knife, but “Woe is me! for knives, they tell me, always sever love.”—Gay, _Pastorals_, ii. (1714).

_Marian_, “the daughter” of Robert, a wrecker, and betrothed to Edward, a young sailor. She was fair in person, loving, and holy. During the absence of Edward at sea, a storm arose, and Robert went to the coast to look for plunder. Marian followed him, and in the dusk saw some one stab another. She thought it was her father, but it was Black Norris. Her father being taken up, Marian gave evidence against him, and the old man was condemned to death. Norris now told Marian he would save her father if she would become his wife. She made the promise, but was saved the misery of the marriage by the arrest of Norris for murder.—S. Knowles, _The Daughter_ (1836).

=Marian´a=, a lovely and loveable lady, betrothed to Angelo, who, during the absence of Vincentio, the duke of Vienna, acted as his lord deputy. Her pleadings to the duke for Angelo are wholly unrivalled.—Shakespeare, _Measure for Measure_ (1603).

Timid and shrinking before, she does not now wait to be encouraged in her suit. She is instant and importunate. She does not reason with the duke; she begs; she implores.—R. G. White.

_Mariana_, sister of Lodovi´co Sforza, duke of Milan, and wife of Francesco, his chief minister of state.—Massinger, _The Duke of Milan_ (1622).

_Mariana_, daughter of Lord Charney; taken prisoner by the English, and in love with Arnold (friend of the Black Prince). Just before the battle of Poitiers, thinking the English cause hopeless, Mariana induces Arnold to desert; but Lord Charney will not receive him. Arnold returns to the English camp, and dies in battle. Lord Charney is also slain, and Mariana dies distracted.—Shirley, _Edward, the Black Prince_ (1640).

_Mariana_, the young lady that Lovegold, the miser, wished to marry. As Mariana was in love with the miser’s son, Frederick, she pretended to be extravagant and deeply in debt, which so affected the old hunks, that he gave her £2000 to be let off the bargain. Of course she assented and married Frederick.—H. Fielding, _The Miser_.

_Mariana_, the daughter of a Swiss burgher, “the most beautiful of women.” “Her gentleness a smile without a smile, a sweetness of look, speech, act.” Leonardo being crushed by an avalanche, she nursed him through his illness, and they fell in love with each other. He started for Mantua, but was detained for two years captive by a gang of thieves; and Mariana followed him, being unable to support life where he was not. In Mantua, Count Florio fell in love with her, and obtained her guardian’s consent to their union; but Mariana refused, was summoned before the duke (Ferrado), and judgment was given against her. Leonardo, being present at the trial, now threw off his disguise, and was acknowledged to be the real duke. He assumed his rank, married Mariana; but being called to the camp, left Ferrado regent. Ferrado, being a villain, laid a cunning scheme to prove Mariana guilty of adultery with Julian St. Pierre, a countryman; but Leonardo refused to believe the charge. Julian, who turned out to be Mariana’s brother, exposed the whole plot of Ferrado, and amply cleared his sister of the slightest taint or thought of a revolt.—S. Knowles, _The Wife_ (1833).

_Mariana_, daughter of the king of Thessaly. She was beloved by Sir Alexander, one of the three sons of St. George, the patron saint of England. Sir Alexander married her, and became king of Thessaly.—R. Johnson, _The Seven Champions of Christendom_, iii. 2, 3, 11 (1617).

=Mariana in the Moated Grange=, a young damsel who sits in the moated grange, looking out for her lover, who never comes; and the burden of her life-song is, My life is dreary, for he cometh not; I am aweary, and would that I were dead.

The sequel is called _Mariana in the South_, in which the love-lorn maiden looks forward to her death, when she will cease to be alone, to live forgotten, and to love forlorn.—Tennyson, _Mariana_ (in two parts).

⁂ Mariana, the lady betrothed to Angelo, passed her sorrowful hours “at the Moated Grange.” Thus the duke says to Isabella:

Haste you speedily to Angelo ... I will presently to St. Luke’s. There, at the moated grange, resides the dejected Mariana.—Shakespeare. _Measure for Measure_, act iii. sc. 1 (1603).

=Marianne= (3 _syl._), a statuette to which the red republicans of France pay homage. It symbolizes the republic, and is arrayed in a red Phrygian cap. This statuette is sold at earthenware shops, and in republican clubs, enthroned in glory, and sometimes it is carried in procession to the tune of the _Marseillaise_. (See MARY ANNE.)

The reason seems to be this: Ravaillac, the assassin of Henri IV. (the Harmodius or Aristogīton of France), was honored by the red republicans as “patriot, deliverer, and martyr.” This regicide was incited to his deed of blood by reading the celebrated treatise _De Rege et Regio Institutione_, by Mariana the Jesuit, published 1599 (about ten years previously). As Mariana inspired Ravaillac “to deliver France from her tyrant” (Henri IV.), the name was attached to the statuette of liberty, and the republican party generally.

The association of the name with the _guillotine_ favors this suggestion.

_Marianne_ (3 _syl._), the heroine of a French novel so called by Marivaux (1688-1763).

(This novel terminates abruptly, with a conclusion like that of _Zadig_, “where nothing is concluded.”)

=Marianne= [=Franval=], sister of Franval the advocate. She is a beautiful, loving, gentle creature, full of the deeds of kindness, and brimming over with charity. Marianne loves Captain St. Alme, a merchant’s son, and though her mother opposes the match as beneath the rank of the family, the advocate pleads for his sister, and the lovers are duly betrothed to each other.—T. Holcroft, _The Deaf and Dumb_ (1785).

=Marie Antoinette.= Beautiful Austrian Queen of Louis XVI. of France. Dethroned and guillotined in the French Revolution of 1793.

=Marie= (_Countess_), the mother of Ul´rica (a love-daughter), the father of Ulrica being Ernest de Fridberg, “the prisoner of State.” Marie married Count D’Osborn, on condition of his obtaining the acquittal of her lover, Ernest de Fridberg; but the count broke his promise, and even attempted to get the prisoner smothered in his dungeon. His villainy being made known, the king ordered him to be executed, and Ernest, being set at liberty, duly married the Countess Marie.—E. Stirling, _The Prisoner of State_ (1847).

=Marie de Brabant=, daughter of Henri III, duc de Brabant. She married Philippe _le Hardi_, king of France, and was accused by Labrosse of having poisoned Philippe’s son by his former wife. Jean de Brabant defended the queen’s innocence by combat, and being the victor, Labrosse was hung (1260-1321).

Ancelot has made this the subject of an historical poem called _Marie de Brabant_, in six chants (1825).

=Marie Kirikitoun=, a witch who promised to do a certain task for a lassie, in order that she might win a husband, provided the lassie either remembered the witch’s name for a year and a day, or submitted to any punishment she might choose to inflict. The lassie was married, and forgot the witch’s name; but the fay was heard singing, “Houpa, houpa, Marie Kirikitoun! Nobody will remember my name,” The lassie, being able to tell the witch’s name, was no more troubled.—_Basque Legend._

Grimm has a similar tale, but the name is Rumpel-stilzchen, and the song was:

Little dreams my dainty dame,
Rumplestilzchen is my name.

=Marie Rogret= (_The Mystery of_). The mysterious murder of a _grisette_ in New York City supplied material for _The Mystery of Marie Roget_, in which Poe, with marvellous skill, “works up a case” which subsequent events proved to have been the correct theory of the murder in all its details.—Edgar Allan Poe, _The Mystery of Marie Roget_ (1842).

=Mariette.=

“Too rash is she for cold coquette,—
Love dares not claim her;
I can but say, ‘’Tis Mariette,’
Nor more than name her.
* * * * * * *
And what have I, whom men forget
To offer to her?
A woman’s passion, Mariette,
There is no truer.”
Dora Read Goodale, _Mariette_ (1878).

=Mari´na=, daughter of Per´iclês, prince of Tyre, born at sea, where her mother, Thais´a, as it was supposed, died in giving her birth. Prince Periclês entrusted the infant to Cleon (governor of Tarsus) and his wife, Dionys´ia, who brought her up excellently well, and she became most highly accomplished; but when grown to budding womanhood, Dionysia, out of jealousy, employed Le´onine (3 _syl._) to murder her. Leonine took Marina to the coast with this intent, but the outcast was seized by pirates, and sold at Metali´nê as a slave. Here Periclês landed on his voyage from Tarsus to Tyre, and Marina was introduced to him to chase away his melancholy. She told him the story of her life, and he perceived at once that she was his daughter. Marina was now betrothed to Lysimachus, governor of Metalinê; but, before the espousals, went to visit the shrine of Diana of Ephesus, to return thanks to the goddess, and the priestess was discovered to be Thaisa, the mother of Marina.—Shakespeare, _Pericles, Prince of Tyre_ (1608).

_Marina_, wife of Jacopo Fos´cari, the doge’s son.—Byron, _The Two Foscari_ (1820).

=Marinda= or MARIDAH, the fair concubine of Haroun-al-Raschid.

=Marine= (_The Female_), Hannah Snell, of Worcester. She was present at the attack of Pondicherry. Ultimately she left the service, and opened a public-house in Wapping (London), but still retained her male attire (born 1723).

=Mari´nel=, the beloved of Florimel, “the Fair.” Marinel was the son of black-browed Cym´oent (daughter of Nereus and Dumarin), and allowed no one to pass by the rocky cave where he lived without doing battle with him. When Marinel forbade Britomart to pass, she replied, “I mean not thee entreat to pass;” and with her spear knocked him “grovelling on the ground.” His mother, with the sea-nymphs, came to him; and the “lily-handed Liagore,” who knew leechcraft, feeling his pulse, said life was not extinct. So he was carried to his mother’s bower, “deep in the bottom of the sea,” where Tryphon (the sea-gods’ physician), soon restored him to perfect health. One day, Proteus asked Marinel and his mother to a banquet, and while the young man was sauntering about, he heard a female voice lamenting her hard lot, and saying her hardships were brought about for her love to Marinel. The young man discovered that the person was Florimel, who had been shut up in a dungeon by Proteus for rejecting his suit; so he got a warrant of release from Neptune, and married her.—Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, iii. 8; iv. 11, 12 (1590, 1596).

=Mari´ni= (_J.B._), called _Le cavalier Marin_, born at Naples. He was a poet, and is known by his poem called _Adonis_ or _L’Adone_, in twenty cantos (1623). The poem is noted for its description of the “Garden of Venus.”

If the reader will ... read over Ariosto’s picture of the garden of paradise, Tasso’s garden of Armi´da, and Marini’s garden of Venus, he will be persuaded that Milton imitates their manner, but ... excels the originals.—Thyer.

=Mari´no Falie´ro=, the forty-ninth doge of Venice, elected 1354. A patrician named Michel Steno, having behaved indecently to some of the ladies at a great civic banquet given by the doge, was turned out of the house by order of the duke. In revenge, the young man wrote a scurrilous libel against the dogaressa, which he fastened to the doge’s chair of state. The insult being referred to “the Forty,” Steno was condemned to imprisonment for a month. This punishment was thought by the doge to be so inadequate to the offence that he joined a conspiracy to overthrow the republic. The conspiracy was betrayed by Bertram, one of the members, and the doge was beheaded on the “Giant’s Staircase.”—Byron, _Marino Faliero_ (1819).

⁂ Casimir Delavigne, in 1829, brought out a tragedy on the same subject, and with the same title.

=Marion de Lorme=, in whose house the conspirators met. She betrayed all their movements and designs to Richelieu.—Lord Lytton, _Richelieu_ (1839).

=Marion Halcomb=, courageous half-sister of Laura Fairly, admired by Count Fosco, and hated by her brother-in-law, Percival Glyde. Through Marion’s acuteness and devotion Laura is rescued from an insane asylum, her persecutors exposed, and herself cared for tenderly until her recovery to health and marriage to Walter Hartright.—Wilkie Collins, _The Woman in White_.

=Maritor´nes= (4 _syl._), an Asturian chamber-maid at the Crescent Moon tavern, to which Don Quixote was taken by his squire after their drubbing by the goat-herds. The crazy knight insisted that the tavern was a castle, and that Maritornes, “the lord’s daughter,” was in love with him.

She was broad-faced, flat-nosed, blind of one eye, and had a most delightful squint with the other; the peculiar gentility of her shape, however, compensated for every defect, she being about three feet in height, and remarkably hunchbacked.—Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. iii. 2 (1605).

=Marius= (_Caïus_), the Roman general, tribune of the people, B.C. 119; the rival of Sylla.

Antony Vincent Arnault wrote a tragedy in French entitled _Marius à Minturnes_ (1791). Thomas Lodge, M.D., in 1594, wrote a drama called _Wounds of Civil War, lively set forth in the True Tragedies of Marius and Sylla_.

=Mar´ivaux= (_Pierre de Chamblain de_), a French writer of comedies and romances (1678-1763).

S. Richardson is called “The English Marivaux” (1689-1761).

=Marjory= of Douglas, daughter of Archibald, earl of Douglas, and duchess of Rothsay.—Sir W. Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time, Henry IV.).

=Mark= (_Sir_), king of Cornwall, who held his court at Tintag´il. He was a wily, treacherous coward, hated and despised by all true knights. One day, Sir Dinadan, in jest, told him that Sir Launcelot might be recognized by “his shield, which was silver with a black rim.” This was, in fact, the cognizance of Sir Mordred; but, to carry out the joke, Sir Mordred lent it to Dagonet, King Arthur’s fool. Then, mounting the jester on a large horse, and placing a huge spear in his hand, the knights sent him to offer battle to King Mark. When Dagonet beheld the coward king, he cried aloud, “Keep thee, sir knight, for I will slay thee!” King Mark, thinking it to be Sir Launcelot, spurred his horse to flight. The fool gave chase, rating King Mark “as a wood man [_madman_].” All the knights who beheld it roared at the jest, told King Arthur, and the forest rang with their laughter. The wife of King Mark was Isond (Ysolde) _the Fair_ of Ireland, whose love for Sir Tristram was a public scandal.—Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, ii. 96, 97 (1470).

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1R.24 C.R. Leslie says[,]: Removed.
5L.29 against the Scotch[./,] and the chief Replaced.
character
6R.34 Lachesis [_Lak´.e.sis_][/.] and At´ropos. Replaced.
19L.8 he suffers himself to[ to] become enamored Removed.
19R.8 are the sick and mai[n/m]ed Replaced.
29R.17 the [“]foundling of the forest,” Added.
29R.20 F[l]orian is light-hearted and volatile Inserted.
31L.28 [_Fe.ā´.ra.brah_][./,] daughter of Laban Replaced.
36L.17 called King [“]King Charles’s jester” Added.
38L.16 Ellen Olney Kirk, _Sons and Daughters_ Replaced.
(1887[]/)]
38L.28 his pro[s]testations of love Removed.
42L.28 =Foundling= (_The_)[,] Harriet Raymond Added.
44L.37 and the two means 77=14.[)] Added.
45L.12 in the s[ei/ie]ge of Corinth Transposed.
57L.23 and [“]took the Lord’s body Added.
58R.29 [(]Dr. William Cullen Removed.
58R.34 astrolo[o]ger of Louis XI. Removed.
59L.27 When G[è/é]ronte hears this Replaced.
63R.27 “The Petrarch of Spain[”] Added.
75R.13 _Money_ (1840.[)]. Added.
76L.20 daughter of Gerald Fitzge[ar/ra]ld Transposed.
77L.5 Sganar[i/e]lle asks him if he would advise his Replaced.
marrying.
79R.6 B[ry/yr]on, _The Giaour_ (1813) Transposed.
79R.38 His seven daughters were turned into Transposed.
ha[cl/lc]yons
83R.13 a[u/n]d died from eating Inverted.
85R.12 grasping C[ro/or]ineus with all his might Transposed.
88R.18 “Spring,” “Summer,” “Autumn,” and [“]Winter” Added.
89R.44 broke to pieces “Mambrino’s he[ml/lm]et,” Transposed.
90R.10 He calls the bridegro[o]m “young Lovell.” Inserted.
92R.28 Sir W. [W.'] Scott Redundant.
97L.25 between the Bononcinists and Handelists[.] Restored.
98R.5 [“]Divina Natura agros dedit Added.
100L.5 “prince of Magog[”] Added.
100R.35 (g and w being convertibleletters,[)] Added.
102R.20 Miller of Gre[e]noble Removed.
105R.3 in those superstit[i]ous times Inserted.
113R.33 in such foolishness.[”] Added.
115R.2 of all the Portuguese statesm[a/e]n Replaced.
115R.11 (_Sir Lau[u/n]celot_) Inverted.
116L.2 stabbed the t[ry/yr]ant to the heart Transposed.
116L.27 a haunch of ven[si/is]on Transposed.
120L.31 the strongest man of arms.[”] Added.
120R.25 who tried to stop p[r]ilgrims Removed.
121R.20 as [“]Sir Francis Gripe.” Added.
123L.14 and it won’t do.[”] Added.
127L.7 laid siege to Châtea[nu/un]euf-de-Randan Transposed.
128R.39 Sigismunda bo[l]dly defended her choice Inserted.
129L.35 _Arab[ai/ia]n Nights_ Transposed.
134L.1 when you see Gwenhidwy driv[-/ing] her flock Completed.
ashore
135L.32 then s[ie/ei]zed the “Nibelung hoard,” Transposed.
137R.28 in the disguise of a physici[s/a]n Replaced.
138R.18 bringing about a reconci[a]lation Inserted.
139L.15 and Zaph[mi/im]ri was raised to the throne Transposed.
140L.4 Charles Martel (689-741)[,/.] Replaced.
145R.27 Belg[ui/iu]m and Switzerland Transposed.
148L.39 He falls in love with Lou[si/is]a Transposed.
151L.44 pressed by hunger[./,] Replaced.
151R.8 the souls[.] of the murdered people Removed.
153L.2 (time[,] Charles I.) Added.
156L.11 some virgin of spotless purity volunteer[e]d Inserted.
to die
157L.3 he is acquit[t]ed Inserted.
158R.4 yet with such exqu[i]site address Inserted.
158R.11 as “two cherries on one stalk.[”] Added.
159L.13 (4) for Sabians[,] Added.
164R.2 moved round the sun (1564-1642[)]. Added.
164R.4 was burnt alive for ma[i]ntaining Inserted.
164R.36 is to “show[”] as in a mirror Removed.
165L.27 in the tale.[)] Added.
165R.27 (_Hermês [“]thrice-greatest_”) Added.
167R.45 [“/‘]May you have but one president,’ Replaced.
171L.19 “Tough as Hickory[./,]” Replaced.
173L.21 The monk of Hildesh[ie/ei]m Transposed.
173R.38 betroths her to Thes[ue/ue]s Transposed.
182R.42 called “The Cape of Storms[”]. Added.
183L.2 was or[i]ginally called Inserted.
184L.31 which he prefer[e/r]ed to filial and brotherly Replaced.
affection
185L.12 the or[i]ginal of our _Childe Horne_ Inserted.
185R.20 [(]These are called “The Prince of Wales’s Added.
...”)
186L.19 the s[ei/ie]ge of Arrestan Transposed.
189L.40 Sir[.] W. Scott Removed.
191L.13 He was corruptly called “Jancus Lain.[”] Added.
202L.27 and we can wait.[”] Added.
205R.11 I am lying her[e] above thee Added.
206L.2 Iachimo accep[t]ed the wager Inserted.
206L.43 cla[i]ming the fulfilment of the compact Inserted.
207R.21 he affirmed to be by Sh[e]akespeare Removed.
207R.25 the poet-laur[e]ate Inserted.
212R.41 M. Drayton, _Polyolb[oi/io]n_ Transposed.
215R.24 —Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, v. [(]1596). Added.
216R.13 “Everard Olive of Tipperary Hall,[ “/” ] who Misplaced.
wrote
221L.21 I have lost thee, Isadore![”] Added.
222L.17 [(]See SKANDERBEG Added.
222R.14 “duke of Shoreditch[”] Added.
222R.49 but afterwards a re[gen/neg]ade to Islam Transposed.
223R.15 out of jealous[l]y Removed.
226R.32 ‘Let’s / [‘]—Heigho —Heigho ... go look at our Removed.
lions!’
227R.17 who promised to remedy all abuses (*-1450[)]. Inserted.
233R.35 an old woman at Middlemas vill[i]age Removed.
235L.18 a gigantic pra[c]tical joke Inserted.
236R.13 stand on the bare ground.[”] Added.
237L.36 “Good land! I know what girls are, I hope![”] Added.
239L.18 when her young master ass[s]ails her Removed.
240L.14 his name was comp[li/il]ed by Transposed.
245R.1 a fellow-bather from the s[e/u]rf Replaced.
251L.8 [“]Pour moi, je tiens Added.
255L.1 No place obtained.[”] Added.
256L.1 Ju[il/li]et Transposed.
261.L.35 daughter o[r/f] King Obĕron Replaced.
263L.30 Sir Galahad of chas[t]ity Inserted.
268L.20 Agesilaös of Sparta (B.C. 444, 398[ /-3]60). Restored.
268L.34 called “The Lion King of Assyria[”] Added.
269L.19 [(]surnamed _the Rash_) Added.
269L.38 Boniface I., pope (*, [4 8 /418-]422). Restored.
270L.31 (1194, 1215-1250[)]. Added.
270R.2 Louis VII., _le Jeune_, of France (1120, Replaced.
11[8/3]7-1180.
272R.7 from one of the declivi[i]ties Removed.
274R.36 the mona[r]chy ended. Inserted.
275R.19 —Monstrelet, _Chroniques_, v. 190 [(]1512). Added.
279R.25 Sir W. Scott, _Castle Dangerous[.]_ Added.
282R.34 =Knig[n/h]ts of the Ermine= Replaced.
287R.5 a play of Shake[s]peare’s Inserted.
287R.9 C. Dickens, _Nicholas Nick[el/le]by_ Transposed.
288R.36 T. B. Aldrich, _The Lady of Cast[le/le]nore_ Transposed.
292R.40 Bryon, _Don Juan_, iii. 26, etc. (1820)[,/.] Replaced.
294L.13 George Eliot, _Silas [W/M]arner_. Replaced.
294L.41 when well powdered.[”] Added.
298R.39 Uthal was slain in single c[a/o]mbat Replaced.
300L.29 Augustin[,] of Hippo Removed.
305R.4 =Laurringtons= [(](_The_) Rememoved.
311L.29 a covet[u]ous lawyer Removed.
315R.6 by the hands of the executioner.[)] Added.
316R.23 vindicated Mariana of the sligh[t]est Inserted.
indiscretion
317L.36 [(]See ISABELLE.) Added.
318R.22 Fer[di]nando, not knowing that she was the Removed.
king’s mistress
322R.15 “goddess of Liberty.[”] Added.
323R.28 The other two were Parthen´ope and Added.
Leucothëa[.]
324L.31 A[u]gustus Cæsar the sea-calf Inserted.
325L.24 The voyage to L[u/i]lliput Replaced.
330L.1 the _fidus Achatês_ of Robin Hood[.] Added.
336R.6 the intrenched spirit in twain[.] Added.
339R.19 to invade En[g]land Inserted.
344L.17 for a somewhat sim[i]liar coincidence Removed.
345L.25 For less my worth, you must allow, than Added.
heaven.[”]
351R.36 “Voyage to Lilliput,[”] Added.
355R.33 on one occas[s]ion Removed.
360L.31 Camoens, _The Lu[c/s]iad_, in ten books Replaced.
360R.11 This Lu[c/s]us colonized the country Replaced.
363L.22 When Demetrius awoke he [become] more _sic_:
reasonable became? had
become?
370R.38 n[ei/ie]ce of Mr. Jonathan Oldbuck Transposed.
376R.26 Melchior means “king of light[”]; Added.
378R.22 Al Borak (“the light[n]ing”) Inserted.
378R.32 ([8/7]) Rehana, a Jewish captive. Replaced.
380R.31 to [to ] and condemned death Removed.
383L.41 conspiring against the king of Portugal Replaced.
(1689-1761)[,/.]
383R.19 Exclusive of his natural ba[r]barity Inserted.
391R.12 that the barg[a]in shall stand good Inserted.
394L.10 _The Plain Dealer[’]_ Removed.
395R.2 but not being an o[r]thodox Moslem Inserted.
396L.32 (mother of the vainglorious Duarte[)], Added.
398L.31 that of Mar[arg/gar]et Transposed.
399R.15 and she arr[r]ives at Port Jackson Removed.
400L.16 was s[ie/ei]zed Transposed.
400L.19 Ma[r]garet replied Inserted.

The following words had inconsistent hyphenation. Words which are hyphenated on a line break retained the hyphen (or not) depending on other instances.

lawsuit/law-suit schoolmaster/school-master sweetheart/sweet-heart overbearing/over-bearing grandchild/grand-child housekeeper/house-keeper bookworm/book-worm Deerslayer/Deer-slayer Greatheart/Great-heart innkeeper/inn-keeper undersea/under-sea turnpike/turn-pike sunbeam/sun-beam reappeared/re-appeared Parthlud/Parth-lud lighthouse/light-house Heughfoot/Heugh-foot heartache/heart-ache harelip/hare-lip Glamorgan/Gla-morgan chambermaid/chamber-maid