Sir W. Scott drew his “Fenella,” in _Peveril of the Peak_, from this character; and Victor Hugo has reproduced her in his _Notre Dame_, under the name of “Esmeralda.” =Mignonette:= “A pitcher of mignonette In a tenement’s highest casement Queer sort of flower-pot--yet That pitcher of mignonette Is a garden in heaven set To the little sick child in the basement, The pitcher of mignonette. In the tenement’s highest casement.” Henry Cuyler Bunner, _Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere_ (1884). =Migonnet=, a fairy king, who wished to marry the princess brought up by Violenta, the fairy mother. Of all dwarfs he was the smallest. His feet were like an eagle’s, and close to the knees, for legs he had none. His royal robes were not above half a yard long, and trailed one-third part upon the ground. His head was as big as a peck, and his nose long enough for twelve birds to perch on. His beard was bushy enough for a canary’s nest, and his ears reached a foot above his head.--Comtesse D’Aulnoy, _Fairy Tales_ (“The White Cat,” 1682). =Mikado= (_of Japan_), the hero of Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera “The Mikado.” The plot turns upon the complications brought about [TN-11] the Mikado’s severe laws against flirting: “So he decreed in words succint, That all who flirted, leered or winked, Unless connubially linked, Should forthwith be beheaded.” =Mi´lan= (_The duke of_), an Italian prince, an ally of the Lancastrians.--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.). =Milan Decree=, a decree of Napoleon Bonaparte, dated Milan, December 27, 1807, declaring “the whole British empire to be in a state of blockade, and prohibiting all countries from trading with Great Britain, or using any article made therein.” ⁂ As Britain was the best customer of the very nations forbidden to deal with her, this very absurd decree was a two-edged sword, cutting both ways. =Mildred=, the bride, “fresh and fair as May,” whom Philip, the pastor, installs as _Mistress of the Manse_, in Josiah Gilbert Holland’s poem of that name (1874). =Mildmay= (_Frank_), hero of sea-story bearing his name.--Frederick Marryatt. =Mile´sian Fables= (_Milesiæ Fabulæ_), very wanton and ludicrous tales. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton) published six of the _Lost Tales of Milētus_ in rhymeless verse. He pretends he borrowed them from the scattered remnants preserved by Apollodo´rus and Conon, contained in the pages of Pausa´nias and Athenæus, or dispersed throughout the Scholiasts. The Milesian tales were, for the most part, in prose; but Ovid tells us that Aristi´dês rendered some of them into verse, and Sisenna into Latin. Junxit Aristides Milesia carmina secum Pulsus Aristides nec tamen urba sua est.