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Thomas Delf, in his translation of Chevreuil's Principles of Harmony,
etc., of Colors (1847), signs himself "Charles Martel."
=Martext= (Sir Oliver), a vicar in Shakespeare's comedy of As You Like
It (1600).
=Martha:=
"Yea, Lord! Yet man must earn And woman bake the bread; And some
must watch and wake Early for other's sake Who pray instead."
Julia C. R. Dorr, Afternoon Songs (1885).
Martha, sister to "The Scornful Lady" (no name given).--Beaumont and
Fletcher, The Scornful Lady (1616).
Martha, the servant-girl at Shaw's Castle.--Sir W. Scott, St. Ronan's
Well (time, George III.).
Martha, the old housekeeper at Osbaldistone Hall.--Sir W. Scott, Rob
Roy (time, George I.).
Martha, daughter of Ralph and Louise de Lascours, and sister of Diana
de Lascours. When the crew of the Urania rebelled, Martha, with
Ralph de Lascours (the captain), Louise de Lascours, and Barabas,
were put adrift in a boat, and cast on an iceberg in "the Frozen Sea."
The iceberg broke, Ralph and Louise were drowned, Barabas was
picked up by a vessel, and Martha fell into the hands of an Indian tribe,
who gave her the name of Orgari´ta ("withered corn"). She married
Carlos, but as he married under a false name, the marriage was illegal,
and when Carlos was given up to the hands of justice, Orgarita was

placed under the charge of her grandmother, Mde. de Théringe, and
[probably] espoused Horace de Brienne.--E. Stirling, The Orphan of the
Frozen Sea (1856).
Martha, a friend of Margaret. She makes love to Mephistophelês, with
great worldly shrewdness.--Goethe, Faust (1798).
Martha, alias ULRICA, mother of Bertha, who is betrothed to
Hereward and marries him.--Sir W. Scott, Count Robert of Paris (time,
Rufus).
Martha (The Abbess), abbess of Elcho Nunnery. She is a kinswoman of
the Glover family.--Sir W. Scott, Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.).
Martha (Dame), housekeeper to major Bridgenorth.--Sir W. Scott,
Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.).
=Martha Hilton=, serving-maid in the household of the widowed
Governor Wentworth, until, on his sixtieth birthday, he surprised the
guests assembled to do him honor by wedding her in their sight.--Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, Lady Wentworth.
=Marthé=, a young orphan, in love with Frédéric Auvray, a young artist
who loves her in return, but leaves her, goes to Rome, and falls in love
with another lady, Elena, sister of the Duke Strozzi. Marthé leaves the
Swiss pastor, who is her guardian, and travels in midwinter to Rome,
dressed as a boy, and under the name of Piccolino. She tells her tale to
Elena, who abandons the fickle, false one, and Frédéric forbids the
Swiss wanderer ever again to approach him. Marthé, in despair, throws
herself into the Tiber, but is rescued. Frédéric repents, is reconciled,
and marries the forlorn maiden.--Mons. Guiraud, Piccolino (an opera,
1875).
=Marthon=, an old cook at Arnheim Castle.--Sir W. Scott, Anne of
Geierstein (time, Edward IV.).
Marthon, alias RIZPAH, a Bohemian woman, attendant on the
Countess Hameline of Croye.--Sir W. Scott, Quentin Durward (time,

Edward IV.).
=Martian Laws= (not Mercian as Wharton gives it in his Law
Dictionary) are the laws collected by Martia, the wife of Guithelin,
great grand-son of Mulmutius, who established in Britain the
"Mulmutian Laws" (q.v.). Alfred translated both these codes into
Saxon-English, and called the Martian code Pa Marchitle Lage. These
laws have no connection with the kingdom of Mercia.--Geoffrey,
British History, iii. 13 (1142).
Guynteline, ... whose queen, ... to show her upright mind, To wise
Mulmutius' laws her Martian first did frame.
Drayton, Polyolbion, viii. (1612).
=Martigny= (Marie le comptesse de), wife of the earl of
Etherington.--Sir W. Scott, St. Ronan's Well (time, George III.).
=Martin=, in Swift's Tale of the Tub, is Martin Luther; "John" is Calvin;
and "Peter" the pope of Rome (1704).
In Dryden's Hind and Panther, "Martin" means the Lutheran party
(1687).
Martin, the old verdurer near Sir Henry Lee's lodge.--Sir W. Scott,
Woodstock (time, Commonwealth).
Martin, the old shepherd in the service of the lady of Avenel.--Sir W.
Scott, The Monastery (time, Elizabeth).
Martin, the ape in the beast-epic of Reynard the Fox (1498).
Martin (Dame), partner of Darsie Latimer at the fishers' dance.--Sir W.
Scott, Redgauntlet (time, George III.).
Martin (Sarah), the prison reformer of Great Yarmouth. This young
woman, though but a poor dressmaker, conceived a device for the
reformation of prisoners in her native town, and continued for
twenty-four years her earnest and useful labor of love, acting as

schoolmistress, chaplain and industrial superintendent. In 1835,
Captain Williams, inspector of prisons, brought her plans before the
Government, under the conviction that the nation at large might be
benefitted by their practical good sense (1791-1843).
=Martin Weldeck=, the miner. His story is read by Lovel to a picnic
party at St. Ruth's ruins.--Sir W. Scott, The Antiquary (time, George
III.).
=Martine= (3 syl.), wife of Sganarelle. She has