h her own hand, and then, springing into the flames, she perished
with the tyrant.--Byron, _Sardanapalus_ (1819).

=Myrtle= (_Mrs. Lerviah_), sentimental Christian, who finds Magdalens and
poor, ill-clad, homeless girls "so depressing," but begs Nixy Trent, the
only one who ever entered her house, "to consider that there is hope for
us all in the way of salvation which our Lord has marked out for
sinners." After which crumb of ghostly consolation she proceeds to turn
Nixy out of the house.--Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, _Hedged In_ (1870).

=Mysie=, the female attendant of Lady Margaret Bellenden, of the Tower of
Tillietudlem.--Sir W. Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, Charles II.).

_Mysie_, the old housekeeper at Wolf's Crag Tower.--Sir W. Scott, _Bride
of Lammermoor_ (time, William III.).

=Mysis=, the scolding wife of Sile'no, and mother of Daph'n[^e] and
Nysa. It is to Mysis that Apollo sings that popular song, "Pray, Goody,
please to moderate the rancour of your tongue" (act i. 3).--Kane O'Hara,
_Midas_ (1764).

=Mysterious Husband= (_The_), a tragedy by Cumberland (1783). Lord
Davenant was a bigamist. His first wife was Marianne Dormer, whom he
forsook in three months to marry Louisa Travers. Marianne, supposing her
husband to be dead, married Lord Davenant's son. Miss Dormer's brother
was the betrothed of the second Lady Davenant before her marriage with
his lordship. She was told that he had proved faithless and had married
another. The report of Lord Davenant's death and the marriage of Captain
Dormer were both false. When the villainy of Lord Davenant could be
concealed no longer, he destroyed himself.

=Nat=, the fairy that addressed Orpheus, in the infernal regions, and
offered him for food a roasted ant, a flea's thigh, butterflies' brains,
some sucking mites, a rainbow tart etc., to be washed down with
dew-drops and beer made from seven barleycorns--a very heady
liquor.--King, _Orpheus and Eurydice_ (1730-1805).

=Nab-man= (_The_), a sheriff's officer.

Old Dornton has sent the nab-man after him at last.--_Guy
Mannering_, ii. 3.

[Asterism] This is the dramatized version of Sir W. Scott's novel, by
Terry (1816).

=Nacien=, the holy hermit who introduced Galahad to the "Siege Perilous,"
the only vacant seat in the Round Table. This seat was reserved for the
knight who was destined to achieve the quest of the Holy Graal. Nacien
told the king and his knights that no one but a vir