Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama | Page 6

a furious quarrel with
her husband, who beats her, and she screams. M. Robert, a neighbor,
interferes, says to Sganarelle, "Quelle infamie! Peste soit le coquin, de
battre ainsi sa femme." The woman snubs him for his impertinence, and
says, "Je veux qu'il me battre, moi;" and Sganarelle beats him soundly
for meddling with what does not concern him.--Molière, Le Médecin
Malgré Lui (1666).
=Martival= (Stephen de), a steward of the field at the tournament.--Sir
W. Scott, Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).
=Martivalle= (Martius Galeotti), astrologer to Louis XI. of France.--Sir
W. Scott, Quentin Durward (time, Edward IV.).
=Martyr King= (The), Henry VI., buried at Windsor beside Edward IV.
Here o'er the Martyr King [Henry VI.] the marble weeps. And fast
beside him once-feared Edward [IV.] sleeps; The grave unites where
e'en the grave finds rest, And mingled lie the oppressor and th'opprest.
Pope.
Martyr King (The), Charles I. of England (1600, 1625-1649).
Louis XVI. of France is also called Louis "the Martyr" (1754,
1774-1793).
=Martyrs to Science.=
Claude Louis, Count Berthollet, who tested on himself the effects of

carbonic acid on the human frame, and died under the experiment
(1748-1822).
Giordano Bruno, who was burnt alive for maintaining that matter is the
mother of all things (1550-1600).
Galileo, who was imprisoned twice by the Inquisition for maintaining
that the earth moved round the sun, and not the sun round the earth
(1564-1642).
And scores of others.
=Marvellous Boy= (The), Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770).
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that
perished in his pride.
Wordsworth.
=Marwood= (Alice), daughter of an old woman who called herself Mrs.
Brown. When a mere girl she was concerned in a burglary and was
transported. Carker, manager in the firm of Dombey and Son, seduced
her, and both she and her mother determined on revenge. Alice bore a
striking resemblance to Edith (Mr. Dombey's second wife), and in fact
they were cousins, for Mrs. Brown was "wife" of the brother-in-law of
the Hon. Mrs. Skewton (Edith's mother).--C. Dickens, Dombey and Son
(1846).
Marwood (Mistress), jilted by Fainall, and soured against the whole
male sex. She says, "I have done hating those vipers--men, and am now
come to despise them;" but she thinks of marrying to keep her husband
"on the rack of fear and jealousy."--W. Congreve, The Way of the
World (1700).
=Mary=, the pretty housemaid of the worshipful, the mayor of Ipswich
(Nupkins). When Arabella Allen marries Mr. Winkle, Mary enters her
service; but eventually marries Sam Weller, and lives at Dulwich, as
Mr. Pickwick's housekeeper.--C. Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1836).

Mary, niece of Valentine, and his sister Alice. In love with Mons.
Thomas.--Beaumont and Fletcher, Mons. Thomas (1619).
Mary. The queen's Marys, four young ladies of quality, of the same age
as Mary, afterwards "queen of Scots." They embarked with her in 1548,
on board the French galleys, and were destined to be her playmates in
childhood, and her companions when she grew up. Their names were
Mary Beaton (or Bethune), Mary Livingston (or Leuison), Mary
Fleming (or Flemyng), and Mary Seaton (Seton or Seyton).
[Asterism] Mary Carmichael has no place in authentic history, although
an old ballad says:
Yestrien the queen had four Marys; This night she'll hae but three:
There was Mary Beaton, and Mary Seaton, And Mary Carmichael, and
me.
[Asterism] One of Whyte Melville's novels is called The Queen's
Marys.
=Mary Anne=, a slang name for the guillotine; also called L'abbaye de
monte-à-regret ("the mountain of mournful ascent"). (See
MARIANNE.)
Mary Anne, a generic name for a secret republican society in France.
[TN-5]See MARIANNE.)--B. Disraeli, Lothair.
Mary Anne was the red-name for the republic years ago, and there
always was a sort of myth that these secret societies had been founded
by a woman.
The Mary-Anne associations, which are essentially republic, are
scattered about all the provinces of France.--Lothair.
=Mary Graham=, an orphan adopted by old Martin Chuzzlewit. She
eventually married Martin Chuzzlewit, the grandson, and hero of the
tale.

=Mary Scudder.= Blue-eyed daughter of a "capable" New England
housewife. From childhood she has loved her cousin. Her mother
objects on the ground that James is "unregenerate," and brings Mary to
accept Dr. Hopkins, her pastor. The doctor, upon discovering the truth,
resigns his betrothed to the younger lover.--Harriet Beecher Stowe, The
Minister's Wooing (1862).
=Mary Stuart=, an historical tragedy by J. Haynes (1840). The subject
is the death of David Rizzio.
[Asterism] Schiller has taken Mary Stuart for the subject of a tragedy. P.
Lebrun turned the German drama into a French play. Sir W. Scott, in
The Abbot, has taken for his subject the flight of Mary to England.
=Mary Tudor.= Victor Hugo has a tragedy so called (1833), and
Tennyson, in 1878, issued a play entitled Queen Mary, an epitome of
the reign of the Tudor