he encounter was
depicted over the chimney of the great hall in the castle of Montargis.
It was in the forest of Bondi, close by this castle, that Aubri was
assassinated.

=Monte Christo= (_Count_), convict who escapes from prison, and finds
immense treasure, with which he does incredible things.

Assuming the title of "count," he adds the name of the island on which
his treasure is buried, and plays the grande seignior in society,
punishing his former persecutors and false friends, and rewarding his
old allies. Finally he is brought to confess that man cannot play
providence, and to recall the words "Vengeance is mine!"--Alexander
Dumas, _Count of Monte Christo_.

=Montenay= (_Sir Philip de_), an old English knight.--Sir W. Scott,
_Castle Dangerous_ (time, Henry I.).

=Montesi'nos=, a legendary hero, who received some affront at the French
court, and retired to La Mancha, in Spain. Here he lived in a cavern, some
sixty feet deep, called "The Cavern of Montesinos." Don Quixote descended
part of the way down this cavern, and fell into a trance, in which he saw
Montesinos himself, Durandart[^e] and Belerma under the spell of Merlin,
Dulcin'ea del Toboso enchanted into a country wench, and other visions,
which he more than half believed to be realities.--Cervantes, _Don
Quixote_, II. ii. 5, 6 (1615).

[Asterism] This Durandart[^e] was the cousin of Montesinos, and Belerma
the lady he served for seven years. When he fell at Roncesvall[^e]s, he
prayed his cousin to carry his heart to Belerma.

=Montespan= (_The marquis de_), a conceited court fop, silly and
heartless. When Louis XIV. took Mde. de Montespan for his concubine, he
banished the marquis, saying:

Your strange and countless follies--
The scenes you make--your loud domestic broils--
Bring scandal on our court. Decorum needs
Your banishment.... Go!
And for your separate household, which entails
A double cost, our treasure shall accord you
A hundred thousand crowns.

Act iv. 1.

The foolish old marquis says, in his self-conceit:

A hundred thousand crowns for being civil
To one another! Well now, that's a thing
That happens but to marquises. It shows
My value in the state. The king esteems
My comfort of such consequence to France,
He pays me down a hundred thousand crowns,
Rather than let my wife disturb my temper!

Act v. 2.

_Madame de Montespan_, wife of the marquis. She su