er grandmother, Mde. de Th['e]ringe, and [probably] espoused
Horace de Brienne.--E. Stirling, _The Orphan of the Frozen Sea_ (1856).

_Martha_, a friend of Margaret. She makes love to Mephistophel[^e]s, with
great worldly shrewdness.--Goethe, _Faust_ (1798).

_Martha, alias_ ULRICA, mother of Bertha, who is betrothed to Hereward
and marries him.--Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of Paris_ (time, Rufus).

_Martha_ (_The Abbess_), abbess of Elcho Nunnery. She is a kinswoman of
the Glover family.--Sir W. Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time, Henry
IV.).

_Martha_ (_Dame_), housekeeper to major Bridgenorth.--Sir W. Scott,
_Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.).

=Martha Hilton=, serving-maid in the household of the widowed Governor
Wentworth, until, on his sixtieth birthday, he surprised the guests
assembled to do him honor by wedding her in their sight.--Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, _Lady Wentworth_.

=Marth['e]=, a young orphan, in love with Fr['e]d['e]ric Auvray, a young
artist who loves her in return, but leaves her, goes to Rome, and falls
in love with another lady, Elena, sister of the Duke Strozzi. Marth['e]
leaves the Swiss pastor, who is her guardian, and travels in midwinter to
Rome, dressed as a boy, and under the name of Piccolino. She tells her
tale to Elena, who abandons the fickle, false one, and Fr['e]d['e]ric
forbids the Swiss wanderer ever again to approach him. Marth['e], in
despair, throws herself into the Tiber, but is rescued. Fr['e]d['e]ric
repents, is reconciled, and marries the forlorn maiden.--Mons. Guiraud,
_Piccolino_ (an opera, 1875).

=Marthon=, an old cook at Arnheim Castle.--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of
Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).

_Marthon, alias_ RIZPAH, a Bohemian woman, attendant on the Countess
Hameline of Croye.--Sir W. Scott, _Quentin Durward_ (time, Edward IV.).

=Martian Laws= (not _Mercian_ as Wharton gives it in his _Law Dictionary_)
are the laws collected by Martia, the wife of Guithelin, great grand-son
of Mulmutius, who established in Britain the "Mulmutian Laws" (_q.v._).
Alfred translated both these codes into Saxon-English, and called the
Martian code _Pa Marchitle Lage_. These laws have no connection with the
kingdom of Mercia.--Geoffrey, _British History_, iii. 13 (1142).

Guynteline, ... whose queen, ... to show her upright mind,
To wise Mulmutius' laws her Martian first did frame.

Drayton, _Polyolbion_, viii. (1612).

=Martigny= (_Marie le comp