MONTESINOS 
 
 
called "The Cavern of Montesinos." Don 
Quixote descended part of the way down 
this cavern, and fell into a trance, in which 
he saw Montesinos himself, Durandart6 
and Belerma under the spell of Merlin, 
Dulcin'ea del Toboso enchanted into a 
country wench, and other visions, which 
he more thaia half believed to be realities. 
-Cervantes, Don Quixote, II. ii. 5, 6 (1615). 
  *** This Durandart6 was the cousin of 
Montesinos, and Belerma the lady he 
served for seven years. When he fell at 
Roncesvall~s, he prayed his cousin to 
carry his heart to Belerma. 
 
  Montespan (The marquis de), a con- 
ceited  court fop, silly and  heartless. 
When Louis XIV. took Mde. de Montes- 
pan- for his concubine, he banished the 
marquis, saying: 
Your strange and countless follies-- 
The scenes you make-your loud domestic 
  broils- 
Bring scandal on our court. Decorum needs 
Your banishment ... Go! 
And for your separate household, which entails 
A double cost, our treasure shall accord you 
A hundred thousand crowns. 
                             Act iv. 1. 
 
The foolish old marquis says, in his self- 
conceit: 
A hundred thousand crowns for being civil 
To one another! Well now, that's a thing 
That happens but to marquises. It shows 
My value in the state. The king esteems 
My comfort of such consequence to France, 
He pays me down a hundred thousand crowns, 
Rather than let my wife disturb my temper! 
                              Act v. 2. 
  Madame de Montespan, wife of the mar- 
quis. She supplanted La Vallibre in the 
base love of Louis XIV. La Vallibre 
loved the man, Montespan the kinq. She 
had wit to warm but not to burn, energy 
which passed for feeling, a head to check 
her heart, and not too much principle for 
 
 
a French court. Mde. de Montespan was 
the protdgde of the Duke de Lauzun, who 
used her as a stepping-stone to wealth; 
but when in favor, she kicked down the 
ladder by which she had climbed to 
power. However, Lauzun had his re- 
venge; and when La Valli~re took the 
veil, Mde. de Montespan was banished 
from the court.-Lord E. L. B. Lytton, 
The Duchess de la Valli~re (1836). 
 
  Montfauwon (The Lady Calista of), at- 
tendant of Queen Berengaria.-Sir. W. 
Scott, The Talisman (time, Richard I.). 
 
  Mont-Fitchet (Sir Conrade), a pre- 
ceptor of the Knights Templar.-Sir W. 
Scott, Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.). 
 
  Montfort (De), the hero and title of a 
tragedy, intended to depict the passion of 
hate, by Joanna Baillie (1798). The ob- 
ject of De Montfort's hatred is Rezenvelt, 
and his passion drives him on to murder. 
  ** De Montfort was probably the sug- 
gestive inspiration of Byron's Manfred 
(1817). 
 
  Montgomery (Mr.), Lord Godolphin, 
lord high treasurer of England in the 
reign of Queen Anne. The queen called 
herself "Mrs. Morley," and Sarah Jen- 
nings, duchess of Marlborough, was "Mrs. 
Freeman." 
 
  Monthermer (Guy), a nobleman, and 
the pursuivant of King Henry I.--Sir 
W. Scott, The Betrothed (time, Henry II.). 
 
  Montjoie, chief herald of France.-Sir 
W. Scott, Quentin Durward (time, Edward 
IV.). 
 
  Montorio, the hero of a novel, who 
persuaded his "brother's sons" to murder 
 
 
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MONqTORIO