rsuaded
him "to forgive his enemies, and to do good to those who despitefully
used him." So he called together his enemies, and forgave them, to the
end that "God of His endeles mercie wole at the tyme of oure deyinge
forgive us oure giltes that we have trespased to Him in this wreeched
world."--Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ (1388).

[Asterism] This prose tale is a liberal translation of a French
story.--See _MS. Reg._, xix. 7; and _MS. Reg._, xix. 11, British Museum.

=Melibee=, a shepherd, and the reputed father of Pastorella. Pastorella
married Sir Calidore.--Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, vi. 9 (1596).

"Melibee" is Sir Francis Walsingham. In the _Ruins of Time_, Spenser
calls him "Meliboe." Sir Philip Sidney (the "Sir Calidore" of the
_Fa[:e]ry Queen_) married his daughter Frances. Sir Francis Walsingham
died in 1590, so poor that he did not leave enough to defray his funeral
expenses.

=Meliboeus=, one of the shepherds in _Eclogue_ i. of Virgil.

Spenser, in the _Ruins of Time_ (1591), calls Sir Francis Walsingham
"the good Meliboe;" and in the last book of the _Fa[:e]ry Queen_ he calls
him "Melibee."

=Melin'da=, cousin of Sylvia. She loves Worthy, whom she pretends to
dislike, and coquets with him for twelve months. Having driven her
modest lover to the verge of distraction, she relents, and consents to
marry him.--G. Farquhar, _The Recruiting Officer_ (1705).

=Mel'ior=, a lovely fairy, who carried off, in her magic bark,
Parthen'opex, of Blois, to her secret island.--_Parthenopex de Blois_ (a
French romance, twelfth century).

=Melisen'dra= (_The princess_), natural daughter of Marsilio, and the
"supposed daughter of Charlemagne." She eloped with Don Gayferos. The
king, Marsilio, sent his troops in pursuit of the fugitive. Having made
Melisendra his wife, Don Gayferos delivered her up captive to the Moors
at Saragossa. This was the story of the puppet-show of Master Peter,
exhibited to Don Quixote and his squire at "the inn beyond the
hermitage."--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, II. ii. 7 (1615).

=Melissa=, a prophetess who lived in Merlin's cave. Bradamant gave her the
enchanted ring to take to Roge'ro; so, under the form of Atlant[^e]s, she
went to Alc[=i]na's isle, delivered Rog[=e]ro, and disenchanted all the
captives in the island.

In bk. xix. Melissa, under the form of Rod[)o]mont, persuaded Agramant
to break the league which was to settle the contest by single combat,
and a general battle