s life and that of his betrothed at
the destruction of Pompeii; embarks with them in a skiff bound for a
safer harbor, and while all are asleep, springs overboard and drowns
herself.--E. L. Bulwer, _Last Days of Pompeii_ (1834).

=Nym=, corporal in the army under Captain Sir John Falstaff, introduced in
_The Merry Wives of Windsor_ and in _Henry V._, but not in _Henry IV._
It seems that Lieutenant Peto had died, and given a step to the officers
under him. Thus, Ensign Pistol becomes lieutenant, Corporal Bardolph
becomes ensign, and Nym takes the place of Bardolph. He is an arrant
rogue, and both he and Bardolph are hanged_ (Henry V._). The word means
to "pilfer."

It would be difficult to give any other reply save that of Corporal
Nym--it was the author's humor or caprice.--Sir W. Scott.

=Nymphid'ia=, a mock-heroic by Drayton. The fairy Pigwiggen is so gallant
to Queen Mab as to arouse the jealousy of King Oberon. One day, coming
home and finding his queen absent, Oberon vows vengeance on the gallant,
and sends Puck to ascertain the whereabouts of Mab and Pigwiggen. In the
mean time, Nymphidia gives the queen warning, and the queen, with all
her maids of honor, creep into a hollow nut for concealment. Puck,
coming up, sets foot in the enchanted circle which Nymphidia had
charmed, and, after stumbling about for a time, tumbles into a ditch.
Pigwiggen, seconded by Tomalin, encounters Oberon, seconded by Tom Thum,
and the fight is "both fast and furious." Queen Mab, in alarm, craves
the interference of Proserpine, who first envelopes the combatants in a
thick smoke, which compels them to desist, and then gives them a draught
"to assuage their thirst." The draught was from the river Leth[^e]; and
immediately the combatants had tasted it, they forgot not only the cause
of the quarrel, but even that they had quarrelled at all.--M. Drayton,
_Nymphidia_ (1593).

=Nysa=, daughter of Sil[=e]no and Mys'is, and sister of Daphn[^e]. Justice
Mi'das is in love with her; but she loves Apollo, her father's
guest.--Kane O'Hara, _Midas_ (1764).

=Nys[^e], Doto, and Neri'n[^e]=, the three nereids who went before the
fleet of Vasco da Gama. When the treacherous pilot steered the ship of
Vasco towards a sunken rock, these three sea-nymphs lifted up the prow
and turned it round.--Camoens, _Lusiad_, ii. (1569).

=O= (_Our Lady of_). The Virgin Mary is so called in some old Roman
rituals, from the ejaculation at t