e road a
gang of robbers fell upon them. Alvaro was killed, and the lady taken to
the robbers' cave, where Gil Blas saw her and heard her sad tale. The
lady was soon released, and sent to the castle of the marquis of
Guardia. She found the marquis dying from grief, and indeed he died the
day following, and Mencia retired to a convent.--Lesage, _Gil Blas_, i.
11-14 (1715).

=Mendo'za=, a Jew prize-fighter, who held the belt at the close of the
last century, and in 1791 opened the Lyceum in the Strand, to teach "the
noble art of self-defence."

I would have dealt the fellow that abused you such a recompense in
the fifth button, that my friend Mendoza could not have placed it
better.--R. Cumberland, _Shiva, the Jew_, iv. 2 (1776).

There is a print often seen in old picture shops, of Humphreys and
Mendoza sparring, and a queer angular exhibition it is. What that
is to the modern art of boxing, Quick's style of acting was to
Dowton's.--_Records of a Stage Veteran._

_Mendoza_ (_Isaac_), a rich Jew, who thinks himself monstrously wise,
but is duped by every one. (See under ISAAC.)--Sheridan, _The Duenna_
(1775).

=Menech'mians=, persons exactly like each other, as the brothers Dromio.
So called from the Mencoechmi of Plautus.

=Menec'rates= (4 _syl._), a physician of Syracuse, of unbounded vanity
and arrogance. He assumed to himself the title of Jupiter, and in a
letter to Philip, king of Macedon, began thus: "Menecrat[^e]s Jupiter to
King Philip, greeting." Being asked by Philip to a banquet, the
physician was served only with frankincense, like the gods; but
Menecrat[^e]s was greatly offended, and hurried home.

=Mengs= (_John_), the surly innkeeper at Kirchhoff village.--Sir W. Scott,
_Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).

=Menippee= (_Satyre_), a famous political satire, written during the
time of what is called in French History the Holy League, the objects of
which were to exterminate the Huguenots, to confine the king (Henri
III.) in a monastery, and to crown the duc de Guise. The satire is
partly in verse, and partly in prose, and its object is to expose the
perfidious intentions of Philip of Spain and the culpable ambition of
the Guises.

It is divided into two parts, the first of which is entitled _Catholicon
d'Espagne_, by Pierre Leroy (1593), exposing those who had been
corrupted by the gold of Spain; the second part is entitled
_Abr['e]g['e] des Etats d