ascending,
wrapped in clouds, was borne upwards to Olympus.

Ossian, in _Carrick-Thura_, says that Loda, the god of his foes, came like
a "blast from the mountain. He came in his terror and shook his dusky
spear. His eyes were flames, and his voice like distant thunder. 'Son of
night,' said Fingal, 'retire. Do I fear thy gloomy form, spirit of dismal
Loda? Weak is thy shield of cloud, feeble thy meteor sword.'"[TN-4] Then
cleft he the gloomy shadow with his sword. It fell like a column of
smoke. It shrieked. Then rolling itself up, the wounded spirit rose on the
wind, and the island shook to its foundation."

=Marseilles' Good Bishop=, Henri Fran[c,]ois Xavier de Belsunce
(1671-1775). Immortalized by his philanthropic diligence in the plague
at Marseilles (1720-1722).

Charles Borrom[=e]o, archbishop of Milan a century previously (1576),
was equally diligent and self-sacrificing in the plague of Milan
(1538-1584).

Sir John Lawrence, lord mayor of London during the great plague,
supported 40,000 dismissed servants, and deserves immortal honor.

Darwin refers to Belsunce and Lawrence in his _Loves of the Plants_, ii.
433.

=Marshal Forwards=, Bl[:u]cher; so called for his dash in battle, and the
rapidity of his movements, in the campaign of 1813 (1742-1819).

=Marsi=, a part of the Sabellian race, noted for Magic, and said to have
been descended from Circ[^e].

Marsis vi quadam genitali datum, ut serpentium virulentorum
domitores sint, et incantationibus herbarumque succis faciant
medelarum mira.--_Gellius_, xvi. 11.

=Marsig'lio=, a Saracen king, who plotted the attack upon Roland, "under
the tree on which Judas hanged himself." With a force of 600,000 men,
divided into three companies, Marsiglio attacked the paladin in
Roncesvall[^e]s and overthrew him; but Charlemagne, coming up, routed the
Saracen, and hanged him on the very tree under which he planned the
attack.--Turpin, _Chronicle_ (1122).

=Marsilia=, "who bears up great Cynthia's train," is the marchioness of
Northampton, to whom Spenser dedicated his _Daphnaida_. This lady was
Helena, daughter of Wolfgangus Swavenburgh, a Swede.

No less praiseworthy is Marsilia,
Best known by bearing up great Cynthia's train.
She is the pattern of true womanhead....
Worthy next after Cynthia [_queen Elizabeth_] to tread,
As she is next her in nobility.

Spenser, _Colin Clout's Come Home Again_ (1595).

=Mar'