Monimia, in Smollett’s novel of Count Fathom (1754).
Moniplies (Richie), the honest, self-willed Scotch servant of Lord Nigel Olifaunt, of Glenverloch.—Sir W. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel (time, James I.).
Monk (General), introduced by Sir Walter Scott in Woodstock (time, Commonwealth.
Monk (The Bird Singing to a). The monk is Felix, who listened to a bird for a hundred years, and thought the time only an hour.—Longfellow, The Golden Legend, ii. (1851).
Monk (The), a novel, by Sir Matthew G. Lewis (1794).
Monk Lewis. Matthew Gregory Lewis; so called from his novel (1773-1818).
Monk of Bury, John Lydgate, poet, who wrote the Siege of Troy, the Story of Thebes, and the Fall of Princes (1375-1460).
Nothynge I am experte in poetry,
As the monke of Bury, floure of eloquence.
Stephen Hawes, The Passe-Tyme of Plesure (1515).
Monk of Westminister, Richard, of Cirencester, the chronicler (fourteenth century).
This chronicle, On the Ancient State of Britain, was first brought to light in 1747, by Dr. Charles Julius Bertram, professor of English at Copenhagen; but the original being no better known than that of Thomas Rowley’s poems, published by Chatterton, grave suspicions exist that Dr. Bertram was himself the author of the chronicles.