se in _Highland Mary_--

Still o'er those scenes my mem'ry wakes,
And fondly broods with miser care.

=Mary of Mode'na=, the second wife of James II. of England, and mother of
"The Pretender."

Mamma was to assume the character and stately way of the royal
"Mary of Modena."--Percy Fitzgerald, _The Parvenu Family_, iii.
239.

=Mary Queen of Scots= was confined first at Carlisle; she was removed in
1568 to Bolton; in 1569 she was confined at Tutbury, Wingfield, Tutbury,
Ashby-de-la-Zouche, and Coventry; in 1570 she was removed to Tutbury,
Chatsworth, and Sheffield; in 1577 to Chatsworth; in 1578 to Sheffield;
in 1584 to Wingfield; in 1585 to Tutbury, Chartley, Tixhall, and
Chartley; in 1586 (September 25) to Fotheringay.

[Asterism] She is introduced by Sir W. Scott, in his novel entitled _The
Abbot_.

Schiller has taken Mary Stuart for the subject of his best tragedy, and
P. Lebrun brought out in France a French version thereof (1729-1807).

_Mary queen of Scots._ The most elegant and poetical compliment ever
paid to woman was paid to Mary queen of Scots, by Shakespeare, in
_Midsummer Night's Dream_. Remember, the _mermaid_ is "Queen Mary;" the
_dolphin_ means the "dauphin of France," whom Mary married; the _rude
sea_ means the "Scotch rebels;" and the _stars that shot from their
spheres_ means "the princes who sprang from their allegiance to Queen
Elizabeth."

Thou remember'st
Since once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a _mermaid_, on a _dolphin's_ back,
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the _rude sea_ grew civil at her song;
And certain _stars shot madly from their spheres_,
To hear the sea-maid's music.

Act ii. sc. 1 (1592).

These "stars" were the earl of Northumberland, the earl of Westmoreland,
and the duke of Norfolk.

=Mary, the Maid of the Inn=, the delight and sunshine of the parish, about
to be married to Richard, an idle, worthless fellow. One autumn night,
two guests were drinking at the inn, and one remarked he should not much
like to go to the abbey on such a night. "I'll wager that Mary will go,"
said the other, and the bet was accepted. Mary went, and, hearing
footsteps, stepped into a place of concealment, when presently passed
her two young men carrying a young woman they had just murdered. The hat
of one blew off, and fell at Mary's feet. She picked it up, and flew to
the inn, told her story,