Swarm ... as the infernal spirits
On sweet Musæus when he came to hell.
C. Marlowe, Dr. Faustus (1590).
Muscadins of Paris, Paris exquisites, who aped the London cockneys in the first French Revolution. Their dress was top-boots with thick soles, knee-breeches, a dress-coat with long tails and high stiff collar, and a thick cudgel called a constitution. It was thought John Bull-like to assume a huskiness of voice, a discourtesy of manners, and a swaggering vulgarity of speech and behavior.
Cockneys of London! Muscadins of Paris!
Byron, Don Juan, viii. 124 (1824).
Mus´carol, king of flies, and father of Clarion, the most beautiful of the race.—Spenser, Muiopotmos, or The Butterfly’s Fate (1590).
Muse (The Tenth), Marie Lejars de Gournay, a French writer (1566-1645).
Antoinette Deshoulieres; also called “The French Callĭŏpê.” Her best work is an allegory called Les Moutons (1633-1694).
Mdlle. Scudéri was preposterously so called (1607-1701).
Also Delphine Gray, afterwards Mde. Emile de Girardin. Her nom de plume was “viconte de Launay.” Béranger sang of “the beauty of her shoulders,” and Châteaubriand, of “the charms of her smile” (1804-1855).
Muse-Mother, Mnemos´ynê, goddess of memory, and mother of the Muses.
Memory,
That sweet Muse-mother.
E. B. Browning, Prometheus Bound (1850).