Part 22 (1/2)

=Mon'ker and Nakir= [_Na.keer'_], the two examiners of the dead, who put questions to departed spirits respecting their belief in G.o.d and Mahomet, and award their state in after-life according to their answers.--_Al Koran._

”Do you not see those spectres that are stirring the burning coals?

Are they Monker and Nakir come to throw us into them?”--W.

Beckford, _Vathek_ (1786).

=Monmouth=, the surname of Henry V. of England, who was born in that town (1388, 1413-1422).

? Mon-mouth is the _mouth of the Monnow_.

_Monmouth_ (_The duke of_), commander-in-chief of the royal army.--Sir W. Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, Charles II.).

? The duke of Monmouth was nicknamed ”The Little Duke,” because he was diminutive in size. Having no name of his own, he took that of his wife, ”Scott,” countess of Buccleuch. Pepys says: ”It is reported that the king will be tempted to set the crown on the Little Duke” (_Diary_, seventeenth century).

=Mon'ema=, wife of Quia'ra, the only persons of the whole of the Guarani race who escaped the small-pox plague which ravaged that part of Paraguay. They left the fatal spot, and settled in the Modai woods. Here they had one son, Yeruti, and one daughter, Mooma, but Quiara was killed by a jaguar before the latter was born. Monema left the Mondai woods, and went to live at St. Joachin, in Paraguay, but soon died from the effects of a house and city life.--Southey, _A Tale of Paraguay_ (1814).

Mononia, when nature embellished the tint Of thy fields and thy mountains so fair, Did she ever intend that a tyrant should print The footstep of slavery there?

T. Moore, _Irish Melodies_, i. (”War Song,” 1814).

=Monsieur=, Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, brother of Louis XIV. (1674-1723).

? Other gentlemen were Mons. A or Mons. B, but the regent was Mons.

without any adjunct.

Similarly, the daughter of the duc de Chartres (the regent's grandson) was Mademoiselle.

=Monsieur le Coadjuteur=, Paul de Gondi, afterwards Cardinal de Retz (1614-1679).

=Monsieur le duc=, Louis Henri de Bourbon, eldest son of the prince de Conde (1692-1740).

=Monsieur Thomas=, a drama by Beaumont and Fletcher (1619).

=Monsieur Tonson=, a farce by Moncrieff. Jack Ardourly fails in love with Adolphine de Courcy in the street, and gets Tom King to a.s.sist in ferreting her out. Tom King discovers that his sweeting lives in the house of a French refugee, a barber, named Mons. Morbleu; but not knowing the name of the young lady, he inquires for Mr. Thompson, hoping to pick up information. Mons. Morbleu says no Mons. Tonson lives in the house, but only Mde. Bellegarde and Mdlle. Adolphine de Courcy. The old Frenchman is driven almost crazy by different persons inquiring for Mons. Tonson; but ultimately Jack Ardourly marries Adolphine, whose mother is Mrs. Thompson after all.

Taylor wrote a drama of the same t.i.tle in 1767.

=Monster= (_The_), Renwick Williams, a wretch who used to prowl about London by night, armed with a double-edged knife, with which he mutilated women. He was condemned July 8, 1790.

=Mont Rognon= (_Baron of_), a giant of enormous strength and insatiable appet.i.te. He was bandy-legged, had an elastic stomach, and four rows of teeth. He was a paladin of Charlemagne, and one of the four sent in search of Croquemitaine and Fear Fortress.--_Croquemitaine._

=Mont St. Michel=, in Normandy. Here nine druidesses used to sell arrows to sailors to charm away storms. The arrows had to be discharged by a young man 25 years of age.