OAKLY 
 
 
  Nym, corporal in the army under Cap- 
tain Sir John Falstaff, introduced in The 
Merry Wives of Windsor and in Henry V., 
but not in Henry IV. It seems that Lieu- 
tenant Peto had died, and given a step 
to the officers under him. Thus, Ensign 
Pistol becomes lieutenant, Corporal Bar- 
dolph becomes ensign, and Nym takes 
the place of Bardolph. He is an arrant 
rogue, and both he and Bardolph are 
hanged (Henry V.). The word means to 
"pilfer." 
  It would be difficult to give any other reply 
save that of Corporal Nym-it was the author's 
humor or caprice.-Sir W. Scott. 
 
  Nymphid'ia, a mock-heroic by Dray- 
ton. The fairy Pigwiggen is so gallant 
to Queen Mab as to arouse the jealousy 
of King Oberon. One day, coming home 
and finding his queen absent, Oberon 
vows vengeance on the gallant, and sends 
Puck to ascertain the whereabouts of 
Mab and Pigwiggen. In the mean time, 
Nymphidia gives the queen warning, and 
the queen, with all her maids of honor, 
creep into a hollow nut for concealment. 
Puck, coming up, sets foot in the en- 
chanted circle which Nymphidia had 
 
 
charmed, and, after stumbling about for 
a time, tumbles into a ditch. Pigwiggen, 
seconded by Tomalin, encounters Oberon, 
seconded by Tom Thum, and the fight is 
" both fast and furious." Queen Mab, in 
alarm, craves the interference of Proser- 
pine, who first envelopes the combatants 
in a thick smoke, which compels them to 
desist, and then gives them a draught "to 
assuage their thirst." The draught was 
from the river Lethe; and immediately 
the combatants had tasted it, they forgot 
not only the cause of the quarrel, but even 
that they had quarrelled at all.-M. Dray- 
ton, Nymphidia (1593). 
 
  Nysa, daughter of Silino and Mys'is, 
and sister of DaphnA. Justice Mi'das is 
in love with her; but she loves Apollo, 
her father's guest.-Kane O'Hara, Midas 
(1764). 
  NysA, Doto, and Neri'ng, the three 
nereids who went before the fleet of Vas- 
co da Gama. When the treacherous pilot 
steered the ship of Vasco towards a sunken 
rock, these three sea-nymphs lifted up the 
prow and turned it round.-Camoens, 
Lusiad, ii. (1569). 
 
 
(OUR LADY OF). The 
Virgin Mary is so called in 
some old Roman rituals, 
from the ejaculation at the 
beginning of the seven an- 
 
 
  thems preceding the Mag- 
"0, when will the day ar- 
"0, when shall I see ... ." 
." and so on. 
 
 
  Oakly (Major), brother to Mr. Oakly, 
and uncle to Charles. He assists his 
brother in curing his "jealous wife." 
 
 
  Mr. Oakly, husband of the "jealous 
wife." A very amiable man, but deficient 
in that strength of mind which is needed 
to cure the idiosyncrasy of his wife; so 
he obtains the assistance of his brother, 
the major. 
  Mrs. Oakly, "the jealous wife" of Mr. 
Oakly. A woman of such suspicious tem- 
per, that every remark of her husband is 
distorted into a proof of his infidelity. She 
watches him like a tiger, and makes both 
her own and her husband's life utterly 
wretched. 
                                  III 
 
 
nificat, as: 
rive .... ?" 
"0, when.. 
 
 
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