ed for their memory are:

Magliabecchi, of Florence, called "The Universal Index and Living
Cyclopaedia" (1633-1714).

P. J. Beronicius, the Greek and Latin improvisator, who knew by heart
Horace, Virgil, Cicero, Juvenal, both the Plinys, Homer, and
Aristoph[)a]n[^e]s. He died at Middleburgh, in 1676.

Andrew Fuller, after hearing 500 lines twice, could repeat them without
a mistake. He could also repeat verbatim a sermon or speech; could tell
either backwards or forwards every shop sign from the Temple to the
extreme end of Cheapside, and the articles displayed in each of the
shops.

"Memory" Woodfall could carry in his head a debate, and repeat it a
fortnight afterwards.

"Memory" Thompson could repeat the names, trades, and particulars of
every shop from Ludgate Hill to Piccadilly.

William Ratcliff, the husband of the novelist, could repeat a debate the
next morning.

_Memory_ (_The Bard of_), Samuel Rogers, author of the _Pleasures of
Memory_ (1762-1855).

=Men of Prester John's Country.= Prester John, in his letter to Manuel
Comn[=e]nus, says his land is the home of men with horns; of one-eyed
men (the eye being in some cases before the head, and in some cases
behind it); of giants, forty ells in height (_i.e._ 120 feet); of the
phoenix, etc.; and of ghouls who feed on premature children. He gives
the names of fifteen different tributary states, amongst which are those
of Gog and Magog (now shut in behind lofty mountains); but at the end of
the world these fifteen states will overrun the whole earth.

=Menalcas=, any shepherd or rustic. The name occurs in the _Idylls_ of
Theoc'ritos, the _Eclogues_ of Virgil, and the _Shepheardes Calendar_ of
Spenser.

=Men'cia of Mosquera= (_Donna_) married Don Alvaro de Mello. A few days
after the marriage, Alvaro happened to quarrel with Don An'drea de Baesa
and kill him. He was obliged to flee from Spain, leaving his bride
behind, and his property was confiscated. For seven years she received
no intelligence of his whereabouts (for he was a slave most of the
time), but when seven years had elapsed the report of his death in Fez
reached her. The young widow now married the marquis of Guardia, who
lived in a grand castle near Burgos, but walking in the grounds one
morning she was struck with the earnestness with which one of the
under-gardeners looked at her. This man proved to be her first husband,
Don Alvaro, with whom she now fled from the castle; but on th