MENCIA OF MASQUERA 
 
 
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 earnest- 
ness with which one of the under-garden- 
ers looked at her. This man proved to be 
her first husband, Don Alvaro, with whom 
she now fled from the castle; but on the 
road a gang of robbers fell upon them. 
Alvaro was killed, and the lady taken to 
the robbers' cave, where Gil Blas saw her 
and heard her sad tale. The lady was 
soon released, and sent to the castle of the 
marquis of Guardia. She found the mar- 
quis dying from grief, and indeed he died 
the day following, and Mencia retired to a 
convent.-Lesage, Gil Blas, i. 11-14 (1715). 
 
  Mendo'za, a Jew prize-fighter, who 
held the belt at the close of the last cen- 
tury, and in 1791 opened the Lyceum in 
the Strand, to teach "the noble art of self- 
defence." 
  I would have dealt the fellow that abused you 
such a recompense in the fifth button, that my 
friend Mendoza could not have placed it better. 
-R. Cunmberland, Shiva, the Jew, iv. 2 (1776). 
  There is a print often seen in old picture 
shops, of Humphreys and Mendoza sparring, 
and a queer angular exhibition it is. What 
that is to the modern art of boxing, Quick's 
style of acting was to Dowton's.-Records of a 
Stage Veteran. 
 
  Mendoza (Isaac), a rich Jew, who thinks 
himself monstrously wise, but is duped by 
every  one.  (See under IsAAc.)-Sheri- 
dan, The Duenna (1775). 
 
  Menech'mians, persons exactly like 
each other, as the brothers Dromio. So 
called from the Mencechmi of Plautus. 
 
  Menee'rates (4 syl.), a physician of 
Syracuse, of unbounded vanity and arro- 
gance. He assumed to himself the title 
 
 
of Jupiter, and in a letter to Philip, king 
of Macedon, began thus: "Menecrates 
Jupiter to King Philip, greeting." Being 
asked by Philip to a banquet, the physi- 
cian was served only with frankincense, 
like the gods; but Menecrat~s was greatly 
offended, and hurried home. 
 
  Mengs (John), the surly innkeeper at 
Kirchhoff village.-Sir W. Scott, Anne of 
Geierstein (time, Edward IV.). 
 
  Menippee (Satyre), a famous political 
satire, written during the time of what is 
called in French History the Holy League, 
the objects of which were to exterminate 
the Huguenots, to confine the king (Henri 
III.) in a monastery, and to crown the duc 
de Guise. The satire is partly in verse, 
and partly in prose, and its object is to ex- 
pose the perfidious intentions of Philip of 
Spain and the culpable ambition of the 
Guises. 
  It is divided into two parts, the first of 
which is entitled Catholicon d'Espagne, by 
Pierre Leroy (1593), exposing those who 
had been corrupted by the gold of Spain; 
the second part is entitled A brdqg des Etats 
de la Lique, by Gillot, Pithou, Rapin and 
Passerat, published 1594. 
  *** Menippus was a cynic philosopher 
and poet of Gadara, in Phoenicia, who 
wrote twelve books of satires in prose and 
verse. 
  Varro wrote in Latin a work called The 
Satires of Menippus (Satyrae Menippeae). 
 
  Mennibojou, a North American Indian 
deity. 
 
  Mentz (Baron von), a Heidelberg bully, 
whose humiliation at the hands of the 
fellow-student he has insulted is the theme 
of an exciting chapter in Theodore S. 
Fay's novel, Norman Leslie (1835). 
 
 
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