t the altar, he rejects her with scorn. The priest feels
assured there is some mistake, so he takes Hero apart, and gives out
that she is dead. Then Don John takes to flight, the waiting-woman
confesses, Claudio repents, and, by way of amendment (as Hero is dead)
promises to marry her cousin, but this cousin turns out to be Hero
herself.

[Asterism] A similar tale is told by Ariosto in his _Orlando Furioso_,
v. (1516).

Another occurs in the _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, by Spenser, bk. ii. 4, 38, etc.
(1590).

George Turbervil's _Geneura_ (1576) is still more like Shakespeare's
tale. Belleforest and Bandello have also similar tales (see _Hist._,
xviii.).

=Mucklebacket= (_Saunders_), the old fisherman at Musselcrag.

_Old Elspeth Mucklebacket_, mother of Saunders, and formerly servant to
Lady Glenallan.

_Maggie Mucklebacket_, wife of Saunders.

_Steenie Mucklebacket_, eldest son of Saunders. He is drowned.

_Little Jennie Mucklebacket_, Saunders's child.--Sir W. Scott, _The
Antiquary_ (time, George III.).

=Mucklethrift= (_Bailie_), ironmonger and brazier of Kippletringan, in
Scotland.--Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.).

=Mucklewrath= (_Habukkuk_), a fanatic preacher.--Sir W. Scott, _Old
Mortality_ (time, Charles II.).

_Mucklewrath_ (_John_), smith at Cairnvreckan village.

_Dame Mucklewrath_, wife of John. A terrible virago.--Sir W. Scott,
_Waverley_ (time, George II.).

=Muckworm= (_Sir Penurious_), the miserly old uncle and guardian of
Arbella. He wants her to marry Squire Sapskull, a raw Yorkshire tike;
but she loves Gaylove, a young barrister, and, of course, Muckworm is
outwitted.--Carey, _The Honest Yorkshireman_ (1736).

=Mudarra=, son of Gon[c,]olo Bustos de Salas de Lara, who murdered his
uncle Rodri'go, while hunting, to avenge the death of his seven
half-brothers. The tale is, that Rodrigo Velasquez invited his seven
nephews to a feast, when a fray took place in which a Moor was slain;
the aunt, who was a Moorish lady, demanded vengeance, whereupon the
seven boys were allured into a ravine and cruelly murdered. Mudarra was
the son of the same father as "the seven sons of Lara," but not of the
same mother.--_Romance of the Eleventh Century._

=Muddle=, the carpenter under Captain Savage and Lieutenant
O'Brien.--Captain Marryat, _Peter Simple_ (1833).

=Muddlewick= (_Triptolemus_), in _Charles XII._, an historical drama by
J. R. Planch['e] (1826).

=Mudjekee'wis=,