done by Matsys, he was so delighted that he at once gave Liza
to him for wife.

=Matthew Merrygreek=, the servant of Ralph Roister Doister. He
is a flesh-and-blood representative of "vice" in the old
morality-plays.--Nicholas Udall, _Ralph Roister Doister_ (the first
English comedy, 1634).

=Matthias de Mon[c,]ada=, a merchant. He is the father of Mrs.
Witherington, wife of General Witherington.--Sir W. Scott, _The
Surgeon's Daughter_ (time, George II.).

=Matthias de Silva= (_Don_), a Spanish beau. This exquisite one day
received a challenge for defamation, soon after he had retired to bed,
and said to his valet, "I would not get up before noon to make one in
the best party of pleasure that was ever projected. Judge, then, if I
shall rise at six o'clock in the morning to get my throat cut."--Lesage,
_Gil Blas_, iii. 8 (1715).

(This reply was borrowed from the romance of Espinel, entitled _Vida del
Escudero Mar[c,]os de Obregon_, 1618).

=Mattie=, maid servant of Bailie Nicol Jarvie, and afterwards his
wife.--Sir W. Scott, _Rob Roy_ (time, George I.).

=Maud Muller=, pretty, shy haymaker, of whom the judge, passing by,
craves a cup of water. He falls in love with the rustic maiden, but dare
not wed her. She, too, recollects him with tenderness, dreaming vainly
of what might have been her different lot.

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these, 'It might have been.'"

J. G. Whittier, _Maud Muller_.

Bret Harte has written a clever parody upon Maud Muller,--"_Mrs. Judge
Jenkins_."

"There are no sadder words of tongue or pen,
Than 'It is, but _it hadn't orter been!_'"

=Maude=, (1 _syl._), wife of Peter Pratefast, "who loved cleanliness."

She kepe her dishes from all foulenes;
And when she lacked clowtes withouten fayle,
She wyped her dishes with her dogges tayll.

Stephen Hawes, _The Pastyme of Pleasure_, xxix. (1515).

=Maugis=, the Nestor of French romance. He was one of Charlemagne's
paladins, a magician and champion.

[Asterism] In Italian romance he is called "Malagigi" (_q.v._).

=Maugis d'Aygremont=, son of Duke Bevis d'Aygremont, stolen in infancy by
a female slave. As the slave rested under a white-thorn, a lion and a
leopard devoured her, and then killed each other in disputing over the
infant. Oriande la f[`e]e, attracted to the spot by the crying of the
child, exclaimed, "by the powers above, the child is _mal gist_ ('b