=Matthias de Silva= (_Don_), a Spanish beau. This exquisite one day received a challenge for defamation, soon after he had retired to bed, and said to his valet, “I would not get up before noon to make one in the best party of pleasure that was ever projected. Judge, then, if I shall rise at six o’clock in the morning to get my throat cut.”--Lesage, _Gil Blas_, iii. 8 (1715). (This reply was borrowed from the romance of Espinel, entitled _Vida del Escudero Marços de Obregon_, 1618). =Mattie=, maid servant of Bailie Nicol Jarvie, and afterwards his wife.--Sir W. Scott, _Rob Roy_ (time, George I.). =Maud Muller=, pretty, shy haymaker, of whom the judge, passing by, craves a cup of water. He falls in love with the rustic maiden, but dare not wed her. She, too, recollects him with tenderness, dreaming vainly of what might have been her different lot. “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’” J. G. Whittier, _Maud Muller_. Bret Harte has written a clever parody upon Maud Muller,--“_Mrs. Judge Jenkins_.” “There are no sadder words of tongue or pen, Than ‘It is, but _it hadn’t orter been!_’” =Maude=, (1 _syl._), wife of Peter Pratefast, “who loved cleanliness.” She kepe her dishes from all foulenes; And when she lacked clowtes withouten fayle, She wyped her dishes with her dogges tayll. Stephen Hawes, _The Pastyme of Pleasure_, xxix. (1515). =Maugis=, the Nestor of French romance. He was one of Charlemagne’s paladins, a magician and champion. ⁂ In Italian romance he is called “Malagigi” (_q.v._). =Maugis d’Aygremont=, son of Duke Bevis d’Aygremont, stolen in infancy by a female slave. As the slave rested under a white-thorn, a lion and a leopard devoured her, and then killed each other in disputing over the infant. Oriande la fèe, attracted to the spot by the crying of the child, exclaimed, “by the powers above, the child is _mal gist_ (‘badly nursed’)!” and ever after it was called Mal-gist or Mau-gis’. When grown to manhood, he obtained the enchanted horse Bayard, and took from Anthenor (the Saracen) the the[TN-7] sword Flamberge. Subsequently he gave both to his cousin Renaud (_Renaldo_). Romance of _Maugis d’Aygremont et de Vivian son Frère_. ⁂ In the Italian romance, Maugis is called “Malagigi,” Bevis is “Buovo,” Bayard is “Bayardo,” Flamberge is “Fusberta,” and Renaud is “Renaldo.” =Maugrabin= (_Zamet_), a Bohemian, hung near Plessis lés Tours. _Hayraddin Maugrabin_, the “Zingaro,” brother of Zamet Maugrabin. He assumes the disguise of Rouge Sanglier, and pretends to be a herald from Liège [_Le.aje_].--Sir W. Scott, _Quentin Durward_ (time, Edward IV.).