) was affianced, and whom she married in a fit of jealousy. The
count having been shot in the Bartholomew slaughter, Valentina married
Raoul [_Rawl_] her first love, but both were killed by a party of
musketeers commanded by the governor of the Louvre.--Meyerbeer, _Les
Huguenots_ (opera, 1836).

[Asterism] The duke [not _count_] de Nevers, being asked by the governor
of the Louvre to join in the Bartholomew Massacre, replied that his
family contained a long list of warriors, but not one assassin.

=Neville= (_Major_), an assumed name of Lord Geraldin, son of the earl of
Geraldin. He first appears as Mr. William Lovell.

_Mr. Geraldin Neville_, uncle to Lord Geraldin.--Sir W. Scott, _The
Antiquary_ (time, George III.).

_Neville_ (_Miss_), the friend and _confidante_ of Miss Hardcastle. A
handsome, coquettish girl, destined by Mrs. Hardcastle for her son Tony
Lumpkin, but Tony did not care for her, and she dearly loved Mr.
Hastings; so Hastings and Tony plotted together to outwit madam, and of
course won the day.--O. Goldsmith, _She Stoops to Conquer_ (1773).

_Neville_ (_Sir Henry_), chamberlain of Richard Coeur de Lion.--Sir W.
Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.).

=New Atlantis= (_The_), an imaginary island in the middle of the Atlantic.
Bacon in his allegorical fiction so called, supposes himself wrecked on
this island, where he finds an association for the cultivation of
natural science, and the promotion of arts.--Lord Bacon, _The New
Atlantis_ (1626).

[Asterism] Called the _New_ Atlantis to distinguish it from Plato's
Atlantis, an imaginary island of fabulous charms.

=New Inn= (_The_), or THE LIGHT HEART, a comedy by Ben Jonson (1628).

=New Way to Pay Old Debts=, a drama by Philip Massinger (1625). Wellborn,
the nephew of Sir Giles Overreach, having run through his fortune and
got into debt, induces Lady Allworth, out of respect and gratitude to
his father, to give him countenance. This induces Sir Giles to suppose
that his nephew is about to marry the wealthy dowager. Feeling convinced
that he will then be able to swindle him out of all the dowager's
property, as he had ousted him out of his paternal estates, Sir Giles
pays his nephew's debts, and supplies him liberally with ready money, to
bring about the marriage as soon as possible. Having paid Wellborn's
debts, the overreaching old man is compelled, through the treachery of
his clerk, to restore the estates also, for the deeds of conv