is XVI. of France is also called Louis "the Martyr" (1754,
1774-1793).

=Martyrs to Science.=

Claude Louis, Count Berthollet, who tested on himself the effects of
carbonic acid on the human frame, and died under the experiment
(1748-1822).

Giordano Bruno, who was burnt alive for maintaining that matter is the
mother of all things (1550-1600).

Galileo, who was imprisoned twice by the Inquisition for maintaining
that the earth moved round the sun, and not the sun round the earth
(1564-1642).

And scores of others.

=Marvellous Boy= (_The_), Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770).

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy,
The sleepless soul that perished in his pride.

Wordsworth.

=Marwood= (_Alice_), daughter of an old woman who called herself Mrs.
Brown. When a mere girl she was concerned in a burglary and was
transported. Carker, manager in the firm of Dombey and Son, seduced her,
and both she and her mother determined on revenge. Alice bore a striking
resemblance to Edith (Mr. Dombey's second wife), and in fact they were
cousins, for Mrs. Brown was "wife" of the brother-in-law of the Hon.
Mrs. Skewton (Edith's mother).--C. Dickens, _Dombey and Son_ (1846).

_Marwood_ (_Mistress_), jilted by Fainall, and soured against the whole
male sex. She says, "I have done hating those vipers--men, and am now
come to despise them;" but she thinks of marrying to keep her husband
"on the rack of fear and jealousy."--W. Congreve, _The Way of the World_
(1700).

=Mary=, the pretty housemaid of the worshipful, the mayor of Ipswich
(_Nupkins_). When Arabella Allen marries Mr. Winkle, Mary enters her
service; but eventually marries Sam Weller, and lives at Dulwich, as Mr.
Pickwick's housekeeper.--C. Dickens, _The Pickwick Papers_ (1836).

_Mary_, niece of Valentine, and his sister Alice. In love with Mons.
Thomas.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _Mons. Thomas_ (1619).

_Mary. The queen's Marys_, four young ladies of quality, of the same age
as Mary, afterwards "queen of Scots." They embarked with her in 1548, on
board the French galleys, and were destined to be her playmates in
childhood, and her companions when she grew up. Their names were Mary
Beaton (or _Bethune_), Mary Livingston (or _Leuison_), Mary Fleming (or
_Flemyng_), and Mary Seaton (_Seton_ or _Seyton_).

[Asterism] Mary Carmichael has no place in authentic history, although
an old ballad says:

Yestrien the queen had four Marys;
This