Chapter M. B. Waistcoat to Medulla Theologiæ of M by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Medina, the Golden Mean personified. Step-sister of Elissa (parsimony) and Perissa (extravagance). The three sisters could never agree on any subject.—Spenser: Faërie Queene, ii. (1590).

Meditations among the Tombs, a prose work of a similar order to Sturm’s Reflections, and Young’s Night Thoughts; by Hervey (1746).

Mediterranean Sea (The Key of the), the fortress of Gibraltar.

Medley (Matthew), the factotum of sir Walter Waring. He marries Dolly, daughter of Goodman Fairlop the woodman.—Dudley: The Woodman (1771).

Medora, the beloved wife of Conrad the corsair. When Conrad was taken captive by the pacha Seyd, Medora sat day after day expecting his return, and feeling the heart-anguish of hope deferred. Still he returned not, and Medora died. In the mean time, Gulnare, the favourite concubine of Seyd, murdered the pacha, liberated Conrad, and sailed with him to the corsair’s island home. When, however, Conrad found Medora was dead, he quitted the island, and went no one knew whither. The sequel of the story forms the poem called Lara.—Byron: The Corsair (1814).

Medoro, a Moorish youth of extraordinary beauty, but of humble race; page to Agramante. Being wounded, Angelica dressed his wounds, fell in love with him, married him, and retired with him to Cathay, where, in right of his wife, he became king. This was the cause of Orlando’s madness.—Ariosto: Orlando Furioso (1516).

When don Roldan [Orlando] discovered in a fountain proofs of Angelica’s dishonourable conduct with Medoro, it distracted him to such a degree that he tore up huge trees by the roots, sullied the purest streams, destroyed flocks, slew shepherds, fired their huts, pulled houses to the ground, and committed a thousand other most furious exploits worthy of being reported in fame’s register.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, I. iii. 11 (1605).

Medulla Theologiæ, a controversial treatise by William Ames (1623).