the
messenger, "adressez-vous [`a] Mme. la marquise qui est en face dans cette
loge; car c'est affaire de m['e]nage."--Chapus, _Dieppe et ses Environs_
(1853).

=Marrall= (_Jack_), a mean-spirited, revengeful time-server. He is the
clerk and tool of Sir Giles Overreach. When Marrall thinks Wellborn
penniless, he treats him like a dog; but as soon as he fancies he is
about to marry the wealthy dowager, Lady Allworth, he is most servile,
and offers to lend him money. Marrall now plays the traitor to his
master, Sir Giles, and reveals to Wellborn the scurvy tricks by which he
has been cheated of his estates. When, however, he asks Wellborn to take
him into his service, Wellborn replies, "He who is false to one master
will betray another;" and will have nothing to say to him.--Massinger,
_A New Way to Pay Old Debts_ (1628).

=Married Men of Genius.= The number of men of genius unhappy in their
wives is very large. The following are notorious examples:--Socrat[^e]s
and Xantipp[^e]; Saadi, the Persian poet; Dant[^e] and Gemma Donati;
Milton, with Mary Powell; Marlborough and Sarah Jennings; Gustavus
Adolphus and his flighty queen; Byron and Miss Milbanke; Dickens and
Miss Hogarth; etc. Every reader will be able to add to the list.

=Mars=, divine Fortitude personified. Bacchus is the tutelary demon of the
Mahommedans, and Mars the guardian potentate of the Christians.--Camoens,
_The Lusiad_ (1569).

_That Young Mars of Men_, Edward the Black prince, who with 8,000 men
defeated, at Poitiers, the French king, John, whose army amounted to
60,000--some say even more (A. D. 1356).[TN-3]

_The Mars of Men_, Henry Plantagenet, earl of Derby, third son of Henry,
earl of Lancaster, and near kinsman of Edward III. (See DERBY.)

=Marse' Chan.= Brave Virginian soldier whose lady-love enacts "My Lady
Disdain" until news is brought her that he has fallen in battle. Then
she grieves for him as a widow for her husband, and when she dies, she
is buried by him.--Thomas Nelson Page, _In Ole Virginia_ (1887).

=Mars of Portugal= (_The_), Alfonso de Albuquerque, viceroy of India
(1452-1515).

=Mars Wounded.= A very remarkable parallel to the encounter of Di[)o]med
and Mars in the _Iliad_, v., occurs in Ossian. Homer says that Diomed
hurled his spear against Mars, which, piercing the belt, wounded the
war-god in the bowels; "Loud bellowed Mars, nine thousand men, ten
thousand, scarce so loud, joining fierce battle." Then Mars