tang, a critic, 539; notices of his voluminous works, ib.;
his magnificent collection of prints, 541.

MAROT, Clement, his character, ii. 474; his translation of the
Psalms, ib.; sung to the airs of popular ballads, 476; his Psalms
the fashion, 477; edition published by Theodore Beza, set to music,
ib.; his Psalms declared Lutheran, and himself forced to fly to
Geneva, ib.

MAR-PRELATE, the book suppressed, ii. 453.

MASKS, worn by Italian actors, ii. 124.

MASSINGER a student of the Italian drama, ii. 138.

MASQUES, notices of magnificent, in the time of Charles I., ii. 327;
the farewell masque of the Duke of Buckingham, 369; mistaken notions
of commentators regarding, iii. 5; their real nature, 7, 8, 9;
description of the masque of Night and the Hours, 10; their ultimate
ruin, by their splendour, at the court of Louis XIV., 13, note.

MASSILLON, i. 250.

MASTER of the Ceremonies, created by James the First, ii. 196.

MASTERLY IMITATORS, i. 258-261.

MATRIMONY, its suitableness to learned men considered, i. 332-334;
opinions of Sir Thomas Browne upon, 335; not borne out by his
practice, ib.

MAXIMILIAN the First, founds a poetical college at Vienna, i. 456.

MEALS, hours of, ii. 315.

MEDAL, struck by the Catholics to commemorate the massacre of the
Huguenots, iii. 249.

MEDALS, satiric, used as money in the Saturnalia, iii. 151; modern
applications of, 158-160.

MEDICINE and Morals, considerations on their connection, ii.
464-469; connection of the mind with the body, 470.

MEDINA CONDE, forges deeds and inscriptions to benefit the Church,
i. 136; sold a bracelet to the Morocco ambassador, as part of the
treasure of the last Moorish king, yet in fact fabricated by
himself, ib.

MEMOIRS, remarks on their interest as compared with history, i. 462.

MENDELSSOHN, anecdote of, i. 392.

MENDICITY, punished among the Jews and nations of antiquity, i. 199,
200; first made a trade of by liberated Christian slaves, 201;
punishment of in China, 202.

MENOT, Michael, a celebrated preacher, specimen of his sermons, i.
256.

MENTAL DISORDERS, singular mode of cure of, ii. 466; remarkable
anecdotes of, 468-470.

METEMPSYCHOSIS, doctrines of, advocated in the present age, i. 192;
notion long extant in Greece before the time of Pythagoras, ib.;
taught by the Egyptians, ib.;