Chapter Maximilian to Mazeppa of M by Brewer's Readers Handbook

her joyous girlhood, tossed her head at him, and never thought of love; but now that she was going to the land of shadows, her dying words were—

And say to Robin a kind word, and tell him not to fret;
There’s many a wortheir than I, would make him happy yet.
If I had lived—I cannot tell—I might have been his wife;
But all these things have ceased to be, with my desire of life.

Maye (The), that subtile and abstruse sense which the goddess Maya inspires. Plato, Epicharmos, and some other ancient philosophers refer it to the presence of divinity. “It is the divinity which stirs within us.” In poetry it gives an inner sense to the outward word, and in common minds it degenerates into delusion or second sight. Maya is an Indian deity, and personates the “power of creation.”

Hartmann possède la Mâye,…il laisse pénétre dans ses écrits les sentiments, et les pensées dont son âme est remplie, et cherche sans cesse à resoudre les antithéses. Weber: Histoire de la Littérature Allemande.

Mayeux, a stock name in France for a man deformed, vain, and licentious, but witty and brave. It occurs in a large number of French romances and caricatures.

Mayflower, a ship of 180 tons, which, in December, 1620, started from Plymouth, and conveyed to Massachusetts, in North America, 102 puritans, called the “Pilgrim Fathers,” who named their settlement New Plymouth.

…the Mayflower sailed from the harbour [Plymouth],
Took the wind on her quarter, and stood for the open Atlantic,
Borne on the sand of the sea, and the swelling hearts of the pilgrims.
   —Longfellow: Courtship of Miles Standish, v. (1858).

Men of the Mayflower, the Pilgrim Fathers, who went out in the Mayflower to North America in 1620.

Mayflower (Phœbe), servant at sir Henry Lee’s lodge.—Sir W. Scott: Woodstoock (time, Commonwealth).

Maylie (Mrs.), the lady of the house attacked burglariously by Bill Sikes and others. Mrs. Maylie is mother of Harry Maylie, and aunt of Rose Fleming who lives with her.

She was well advanced in years, but the high-backed oaken chair in which she sat was not more upright than she. Dressed with the utmost nicety and precision in a quaint mixture of bygone costume, with some slight concessions to the prevailing taste, which rather served to point the old style pleasantly than to impair its effect, she sat in a stately manner, with her hands folded before her.—Dickens: Oliver Twist ch. xxix.

Harry Maylie, Mrs. Maylie’s son. He turned a clergyman and married his cousin Rose Fleming.—Dickens: Oliver Twist (1837).

Mayor of Garratt (The). Garratt is between Wandsworth and Tooting. The first mayor of this village was elected towards the close of the eighteenth century, and the election came about thus: Garratt Common had often been encroached on, and in 1780 the inhabitants associated themselves together to defend their rights. The chairman was called Mayor, and as it happened to be the time of a general election, the society made it a law that a new “mayor” should be elected at every general election. The addresses of these mayors, written by Foote, Garrick, Wilks, and others, are satires and political squibs. The first mayor of Garratt was “sir” John Harper, a retailer of brickdust; and the last was “sir” Harry Dimsdale, a muffin-seller (1796). In Foote’s farce so called, Jerry Sneak; son-in-law of the landlord, is chosen mayor (1763).

Mayors (Lord) who have founded noble houses—

		Lord Mayor.
	Aveland (Lord), from sir Gilbert Heathcote	1711
	Bacon (Lord), from sir Thomas Cooke, draper	1557
	Bath (Marquis of), from sir Rowland Heyward, cloth-worker	1570
	Braybrooke (Lord), from sir John Gresham, grocer	1547
	Brooke (Lord), from sir Samuel Dashwood, vintner	1702
	Buckingham