ngaged to be married to Miss
Sterling, the elder daughter of a City merchant, who promises to settle
on her [pounds]800,000. A little before the marriage, Sir John finds
that he has no regard for Miss Sterling, but a great love for her
younger sister, Fanny, to whom he makes a proposal of marriage. His
proposal is rejected; and it is soon brought to light that Miss Fanny
had been clandestinely married to Lovewell for four months.--Colman and
Garrick, _The Clandestine Marriage_ (1766).

=Melville= (_Major_), a magistrate at Cairnvreckan village.--Sir W. Scott,
_Waverley_ (time, George II.).

_Melville_ (_Sir Robert_), one of the embassy from the privy council to
Mary queen of Scots.--Sir W. Scott, _The Abbot_ (time, Elizabeth).

_Melville_, the father of Constantia.--C. Macklin, _The Man of the
World_ (1764).

_Melville_ (_Julia_), a truly noble girl, in love with Faulkland, who is
always jealous of her without a shadow of cause. She receives his
innuendos without resentment, and treats him with sincerity and
forbearance (see act i. 2).--Sheridan, _The Rivals_ (1775).

=Melyhalt= (_The Lady_), a powerful subject of King Arthur, whose domains
Sir Galiot invaded; notwithstanding which the lady chose Sir Galiot as
her fancy knight and chevalier.

=Memnon=, king of the Ethiopians. He went to the assistance of his uncle,
Priam, and was slain by Achill[^e]s. His mother, Eos, inconsolable at his
death, weeps for him every morning, and her tears constitute what we
call dew.

_Memnon_, the black statue of King Amen'ophis III., at Thebes, in Egypt,
which, being struck with the rays of the morning sun, gives out musical
sounds. Kircher says these sounds are due to a sort of clavecin or
AEolian harp enclosed in the statue, the cords of which are acted upon by
the warmth of the sun. Cambyses, resolved to learn the secret, cleft the
statue from head to waist; but it continued to utter its morning melody
notwithstanding.

_Memnon_, "the mad lover," general of As'torax, king of
Paphos.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Mad Lover_ (1617).

_Memnon_, the title of a novel by Voltaire, the object of which is to
show the folly of aspiring to too much wisdom.

=Memnon's Sister.= He'mera, mentioned by Dictys Cretensis.

Black, but such as in esteem
Prince Memnon's sister might beseem.

Milton, _Il Penseroso_ (1638).

=Memorable= (_The Ever-_), John Hales, of Eton (1584-1656).

=Memory.= The persons most not