to the land of shadows, her dying words were:

And say to Robin a kind word, and tell him not to fret;
There's many worthier than I, would make him happy yet.
If I had lived--I cannot tell--I might have been his wife;
But all these things have ceased to be, with my desire of life.

=Maye= (_The_), that subtle and abstruse sense which the goddess Maya
inspires. Plato, Epicharmos, and some other ancient philosophers refer
it to the presence of divinity. "It is the divinity which stirs within
us." In poetry it gives an inner sense to the outward word, and in
common minds it degenerates into delusion or second sight. Maya is an
Indian deity, and personates the "power of creation."

Hartmann poss[`e]de la M[^a]ye ... il laisse p['e]n['e]trer dans ses
['e]crits les sentiments, et les pens['e]es dont son [^a]me est
remplie, et cherche sans cesse [`a] resoudre les antith[`e]ses.--G.
Weber, _Hist. de la Litt['e]rature Allemande_.

=Mayeux=, a stock name in France for a man deformed, vain, and licentious,
but witty and brave. It occurs in a large number of French romances and
caricatures.

=Mayflower=, a ship of 180 tons, which in December, 1620, started from
Plymouth, and conveyed to Massachusetts 102 puritans, called the
"Pilgrim Fathers," who named their settlement New Plymouth.

... the _Mayflower_ sailed from the harbor [_Plymouth_],
Took the wind on her quarter, and stood for the open Atlantic,
Borne on the sand of the sea, and the swelling hearts of the pilgrims.

Longfellow, _Courtship of Miles Standish_, v. (1858).

_Men of the Mayflower_, the Pilgrim Fathers, who went out in the
_Mayflower_ to North America in 1620.

_Mayflower_ (_Phoebe_), servant at Sir Henry Lee's lodge.--Sir W. Scott,
_Woodstock_ (time, commonwealth).

=Maylie= (_Mrs._), the lady of the house attacked burglariously by Bill
Sykes and others. Mrs. Maylie is mother of Harry Maylie, and aunt of
Rose Fleming, who lives with her.

She was well advanced in years, but the high-backed oaken chair in
which she sat was not more upright than she. Dressed with the
utmost nicety and precision in a quaint mixture of bygone costume,
with some slight concession to the prevailing taste, which rather
served to point the old style pleasantly than to impair its effect,
she sat in a stately manner, with her hands folded before her.

_Harry Maylie_, Mrs. Maylie's son. He