spices," and so comes to
the conclusion that it "is sinful to keep shop." He is a convert of Dr.
Cantwell, and believes in him to the last.

Do despise me; I'm the prouder for it. I like to be despised.--I.
Bickerstaff, _The Hypocrite_, ii. 1 (1768).

=Max=, a huntsman, and the best marksman in Germany. He was plighted to
Agatha, who was to be his wife, if he won the prize in the annual match.
Caspar induced Max to go to the wolf's glen at midnight and obtain seven
charmed balls from Samiel, the Black Huntsman. On the day of contest,
while Max was shooting, he killed Caspar, who was concealed in a tree,
and the king in consequence abolished this annual _f[^e]te_.--Weber, _Der
Freisch[:u]tz_ (an opera, 1822).

=Maxime= (2 _syl._), an officer of the Prefect Almachius. He was ordered
to put to death Valerian and Tibur'c[^e], because they refused to worship
the image of Jupiter; but he took pity on them, took them to his house,
became converted and was baptized. When Valerian and Tiburc[^e] were
afterwards martyred, Maxime said he saw angels come and carry them to
heaven, whereupon Almachius caused him to be beaten with rods "til he
his lif gan lete."--Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ ("Second Nun's Tale,"
1388).

[Asterism] This is based on the story of "Cecilia" in the _Legenda
Aurea_; and both are imitations of the story of Paul and the jailer of
Philippi (_Acts_ xvi. 19-34).

=Maximil'ian= (son of Frederick III.), the hero of the _Teuerdank_, the
_Orlando Furioso_ of the Germans, by Melchior Pfinzing.

....[_here_] in old heroic days
Sat the poet Melchoir, singing Kaiser Maximilian's praise.

Longfellow, _Nuremberg_.

=Maximin=, a Roman tyrant.--Dryden, _Tyrannic Love_, or _the Royal
Martyr_.

=Maximus=, (called by Geoffrey, "Maximian"), a Roman senator, who in 381,
was invited to become king of Britain. He conquered Armorica
(_Bretagne_), and "published a decree for the assembling together there
of 100,000 of the common people of Britain, to colonize the land, and
30,000 soldiers to defend the colony." Hence Armorica was called, "The
other Britain" or "Little Britain."--Geoffrey, _British History_, v. 14
(1142).

Got Maximus at length the victory in Gaul,
... where after Gratian's fall.
Armorica to them the valiant victor gave....
Which colony ... is "Little Britain" called.

Drayton, _Polyolbion_, ix. (1612).

=Maxwell=, deputy chamberlain at