Manuel du Sosa, governor of Lisbon, and brother of Guiomar (mother of the vainglorious Duarte),[Duarte),] (3 syl.).—Beaumont and Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647).
Mapp (Mrs.), bone-setter. She was born at Epsom, and at one time was very rich, but she died in great poverty at her lodgings in Seven Dials, 1737.
⁂ Hogarth has introduced her in his heraldic picture, “The Undertakers’ Arms.” She is the middle of the three figures at the top, the other two being Dr. Ward, on the right hand of the spectator, and Dr. Taylor on the left.
Maqueda, the queen of the South, who visited Solomon, and had by him a son named Melech.—Zaga Zabo, Ap. Damian a Goes.
⁂ Maqueda is generally called Balkîs, queen of Saba or Zaba.
Mara Lincoln, orphaned grandchild of Captain and Mrs. Fennell; betrothed to Moses Fennell. She dies young, and is long and sincerely mourned.—Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Pearl of Orr’s Island.
Marcassin (Prince). This nursery tale is from the Nights, of Straparola, an Italian (sixteenth century). Translated into French in 1585.
Marce´lia, the “Desdemona” of Massinger’s Duke of Milan. Sforza, “the More,” doted on his young bride, and Marcelia returned his love. During Sforza’s absence at the camp, Francesco, “the lord protector,” tried to seduce the young bride from her fidelity, and, failing in his purpose, accused her to the duke of wishing to play the wanton. “I labored to divert her ... urged your much love ... but hourly she pursued me.” The duke, in a paroxysm of jealousy, flew on Marcelia and slew her.—Massinger, The Duke of Milan (1622).
Marcella, daughter of William, a farmer. Her father and mother died while she was young, leaving her in charge of an uncle. She was “the most beautiful creature ever sent into the world,” and every bachelor who saw her fell madly in love with her, but she declined their suits. One of her lovers was Chrysostom, the favorite of the village, who died of disappointed hope, and the shepherds wrote on his tombstone: “From Chrysostom’s fate, learn to abhor Marcella, that common enemy of man, whose beauty and cruelty are both in the extreme.”—Cervantes, Don Quixote, I. ii. 4, 5 (1605).
Marcellin de Peyras. The chevalier to whom the Baron de Peyras gave up his estates when he retired to Grenoble. De Peyras eloped with Lady Ernestine, but soon tired of her, and fell in love with his cousin Margaret, the baron’s daughter.—E. Stirling, The Gold-Mine or The Miller of Grenoble (1854).