Mina, a famous guerilla chief in the Peninsular war, and (in 1834)
against Don Carlo (1781-1834). Empecinado (covered with pitch) a
nick-name given to Juan Matin Diaz, an early comrade of Mina
Mirabel and Millamont, the Benedick and Beatrice of Beaumont and
Fletcher’s Wildgoose Chase
Mithridates, king of Pontus (B.C. 120-63), famous for his struggle
against Rome, and the general vigour and ability of his intellect
Moliere’s doctors (see L’Amour Medecin (II. iii.), Le Malade Imaginaire,
and Le Medicin malgre lui)
Mompesson, Sir Giles, one of the Commissioners for the granting of
monopoly licenses
Monks and Giants, “These stanzas are from a poem by Hookham Frere,
really entitled Prospectus and specimen of an inteneded national Work .
. . relating to King Arthur and his Round Table,”