on this comedy. The doctor he calls "Gregory," and G['e]ronte "Sir
Jasper." Lucinde, the dumb girl, he calls "Charlotte," and Anglicizes
her lover, L['e]andre, into "Leander."

=Medham= ("_the keen_"), one of Mahomet's swords.

=Medicine= (_The Father of_), Aretaeos of Cappadocia (second and third
centuries).

[Asterism] Also Hippoc'rates, of Cos (B.C. 460-357).

=Medina=, the Golden Mean personified, Step-sister of Elissa (_parsimony_)
and Perissa (_extravagance_). The three sisters could never agree on any
subject.--Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, ii. (1590).

=Medley= (_Matthew_), the factotum of Sir Walter Waring. He marries Dolly,
daughter of Goodman Fairlop, the woodman.--Sir H. P. Dudley, _The
Woodman_ (1771).

=Medo'ra=, the beloved wife of Conrad, the corsair. When Conrad was taken
captive by the Pacha Seyd, Medora sat day after day expecting his
return, and feeling the heart-anguish of hope deferred. Still he
returned not, and Medora died. In the mean time, Gulnare, the favorite
concubine of Seyd, murdered the pacha, liberated Conrad, and sailed with
him to the corsair's island home. When, however, Conrad found his wife
dead, he quitted the island, and went no one knew whither. The sequel of
the story forms the poem called _Lara_.--Byron, _The Corsair_ (1814).

=Medo'ro=, a Moorish youth of extraordinary beauty, but of humble race;
page to Agramante. Being wounded, Angelica dressed his wounds, fell in
love with him, married him, and retired with him to Cathay, where, in
right of his wife, he became a king. This was the cause of Orlando's
madness.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516).

When Don Roldan [_Orlando_] discovered in a fountain proofs of
Angelica's dishonorable conduct with Medoro, it distracted him to
such a degree that he tore up huge trees by the roots, sullied the
purest streams, destroyed flocks, slew shepherds, fired their huts,
pulled houses to the ground, and committed a thousand other most
furious exploits worthy of being reported in fame's
register.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. iii. 11 (1605).

=Medu'sa= (_The soft_), Mary Stuart, queen of Scots (1545-1577).

Rise from thy bloody grave,
Thou soft Medusa of the "Fated Line,"
Whose evil beauty looked to death the brave!

Lord Lytton, _Ode_, i. (1839).

=Meeta=, the "maid of Mariendorpt," a true woman and a true heroine. She
is the daughter of Mahldenau, minister of Ma