Young
Pretender. He turned king's evidence, and revealed to Government all the
circumstances which gave rise to the rebellion, and the persons most
active in its organization.

If crimes like these hereafter are forgiven,
Judas and Murray both may go to heaven.

_Jacobite Relics_, ii. 374.

=Musaeus=, the poet (B.C. 1410), author of the elegant tale of _Leander
and Hero_. Virgil places him in the Elysian fields attended by a vast
multitude of ghosts, Musaeus being taller by a head than any of them
(_AEneid_, vi. 677).

Swarm ... as the infernal spirits
On sweet Musaeus when he came to hell.

C. Marlowe, _Dr. Faustus_ (1590).

=Muscadins of Paris=, Paris exquisites, who aped the London cockneys in
the first French Revolution. Their dress was top-boots with thick soles,
knee-breeches, a dress-coat with long tails and high stiff collar, and a
thick cudgel called a _constitution_. It was thought John Bull-like to
assume a huskiness of voice, a discourtesy of manners, and a swaggering
vulgarity of speech and behavior.

Cockneys of London! Muscadins of Paris!

Byron, _Don Juan_, viii. 124 (1824).

=Mus'carol=, king of flies, and father of Clarion, the most beautiful of
the race.--Spenser, _Muiopotmos, or The Butterfly's Fate_ (1590).

=Muse= (_The Tenth_), Marie Lejars de Gournay, a French writer
(1566-1645).

Antoinette Deshoulieres; also called "The French Call[)i][)o]p[^e]." Her
best work is an allegory called _Les Moutons_ (1633-1694).

Mdlle. Scud['e]ri was preposterously so called (1607-1701).

Also Delphine Gray, afterwards Mde. Emile de Girardin. Her _nom de
plume_ was "viconte de Launay." B['e]ranger sang of "the beauty of her
shoulders," and Ch[^a]teaubriand, of "the charms of her smile"
(1804-1855).

=Muse-Mother=, Mnemos'yn[^e], goddess of memory, and mother of the Muses.

Memory,
That sweet Muse-mother.

E. B. Browning, _Prometheus Bound_ (1850).

=Muses= (_Symbols of the_).

CAL'LIOPE [_K[)a]l'.ly.[)o].py_], the epic Muse: a tablet and stylus,
sometimes a scroll.

CLIO, Muse of history: a scroll or open chest of books.

ER'ATO, Muse of love ditties: a lyre.

EUTER'P[^E], Muse of lyric poetry: a flute.

MELPOM'EN[^E], Muse of tragedy: a tragic mask, the club of Hercules, or a
sword. She wears the cothurnus, and her head is wreathed with vine
leaves.

POL'YHYM'NIA, Muse of sacred poetry: sits pensive, but has no at