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sra carried' to market, whither both the Idaharis and Muf- 
/ulmen refort, and pafs as a currency for money. The 
Mahometans preclude Europeans, as much as they can, 
from having intercourfe with the Maroots; but at Ba- 
lambangad, and on the ifland Labuan, near Borneo, thefe 
Maroots bring hogs, fruits, See. in their boats, and are 
gladno fee the Engliih eat pork like themfelves. Foref's 
Voyage. 
MATOS, a town on the weft coaft of the ifland of 
Celebes. Lat. 4.4.7. N. Ion. 120. 6. E. 
MA'ROS, a river of Hungary, which rifes on the bor¬ 
ders of Moldavia, and runs into the Theyfle near Zegedin. 
MAROS'TICA, a town of Italy, in the Vicentia, fur- 
rounded with walls, and containing feveral churches : 
eleven miles north of Vicenza. 
MARO'T (Clement), a celebrated French poet, born 
about 1495 at Cahors, was the fon of John Marot, an 
officer in the houfehold of Francis I. and alfo a poet. 
Clement was valet-de-chambre to the fame king, who 
placed him with his filler Margaret when'file married the 
duke of Alengon. He accompanied that prince to the 
war in Italy, and was wounded and taken prifonerat the 
battle of Pavia. During the abfence of Francis in Spain, 
ha was accufed of herefy by the zealous Dr. Bouchard, 
tend committed to prifon; he was, however, liberated 
through the favourof the king and the princefs Margaret. 
Me underwent another confinement on a lefs honourable 
account, that of having refeued a man from the hands of 
the officers of juftice ; for it appears that, whatever were 
his fentiments of religion, his moral conduct was far from 
exemplary. Unwilling to have any further quarrels with 
the police of Paris, of the adminiftrators of which he gives 
tt frightful picture in his poem of “Hell,” he took refuge 
with his former miftrefs, now queen of Navarre; and, not 
thinking himfelf even there in fafety, he retired to the 
court of the duchefs of Ferrara, a declared favourer of the 
reformation. He obtained permiflion from Francis to re¬ 
turn to France in 1736, where hecotnpofed his tranflation 
of the firft thirty Pfalms of David into French verfe. 
This was cenfured by the Sorbonne, w hich made renion- 
firances to the king on the fubjeCt; and, though his ma- 
jelty was inclined to favour him, the publication was 
finally prohibited. Marot’s attachment to the new opi¬ 
nions at length expofed him to fo much hazard, that he 
thought proper to retire to Geneva, where he was regarded 
as a valuable auxiliary. He there tranflated twenty more 
Pfalms ; but his manner^ were fo unfuitable to the rigour 
of the place, that it was not long before he quitted it. 
His lalt relidence was at Turin, where he died in 1544. 
Clement Marot excelled all the French poets of his time 
in delicate and ingenious turns, expreffed with a charm¬ 
ing fimplicity, and the happielt exemplification of that 
naivete which is a peculiarly French idea. It is true there 
is much vulgarity and flatnefs in his language, and it is 
but occafionally that the poet breaks out ; but his beft 
manner has been fo captivating, that the fyle Marotique 
has had numerous imitators, among whom La Fontaine 
did not difdain to be reckoned. He excelled molt in 
light, epigrammatic, and amatory, compolitions, which 
did not always keep' within the bounds of decency. His 
Pfalms, though defective in grandeur and dignity, have 
■ home happy and natural phrafeology, which rendered 
them extremely popular. They were even at one time 
the delight of the licentious court of Henry II. Marot 
is faid to have been the inventor of the rondeau, and of 
the alternacy of mafeuline and feminine rhymes, and to 
have given the modern forms of the fonnet and madrigal 
in French verfe. His works, with thofe of his father, 
and of his fon Michael, were publifhed collectively at the 
Hague in 4 vols. 410.,and 6 vols. 121110. in 1731. Bayle. 
Moreri. 
MA'ROTH, [Hebrew.] The name of a place. 
MAROT'IC, adj. [from Marot.] In the French poetry, 
denotes a peculiarly gay and pleaiant, yet fimple and na¬ 
tural, manner or ftyle of writing, introduced by Clement 
MAR syg 
Marot,,. and' fiiiee imitated by other authors, but with 1110ft 
fuccefs by La Fontaine and Roufleau. 
MAROUPOfLE, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Ga¬ 
licia: fixry miles eaft-north-eaft of Lemberg. 
MAROW'LY, a town of Hindooitan, in the circar of 
Golnui : fifteen miles fouth of Narwa. 
MARGZ'ZO, a town of Naples, in Abruzzo Citra : 
.twenty miles fouth-eaft of Lanciano. 
MAR'PACH, a town of Auftria : fix miles eaft of 
Steyregg. 
MAR'PACH, a town of Wurtemberg, on the Neckar. 
In 1346 this town fuffered greatly from the Spaniards; 
in 1642 it was twice plundered ; and in 1693 it was burned 
by the French. It is eight miles north-r.orth-eaft of Stutt- 
gard,and thirty eaft-north-eaft ofWildbad. Lat. 48. 58. N. 
Ion. 9. 21. E. 
MARPE'SIA, a celebrated queen of the Amazons, who 
waged a fuccefsful war againlt the inhabitants of Mount 
Caucafus. The mountain was called Marpejius Mons, from 
its female conqueror. Jujiin. 
MARPES'SA, a daughter of Evenus, who married 
Idas, by whom fhe had Cleopatra, the wife of Meleager. 
Marpefla was tenderly loved by her hufband ; and, when 
Apollo endeavoured to carry her away, Idas followed the 
ravilher with a bow and arrows, refolved on revenge. 
Apollo and Idas were feparated by Jupiter, who permitted 
Marpefla to go with that of the two lovers whom (he molt 
approved of. She returned to her hufband. Homer. II. 9. 
MARPES'SUS, in ancient geography, a town of Phry¬ 
gia, on Mount Ida. Paulanias places it among the Pho- 
caeans, at 240 Itadia from Alexandria of the Troade, in 
the vicinity of the river Ladon. 
MARPE'SUS, the moll lofty mountain in the ifland of 
Paros, (ituated welt of the harbour of Marmora, which 
furnillied more particularly the marble obtained by the 
Greeks from Paros. 
MARP'LE, a townfhip of England, in Chelhire, with 
2031 inhabitants: four milts (outh-eafl of Stockport. 
Cruttwell's Gaz. 
MAR'PURG (Frederic Wilhelm), an eminent and vo¬ 
luminous writer on mulic, and a compofer, at Berlin, 
whole works on the theory and practice of the art may 
be jultly faid to furpafs in number and utility thofe of any 
other author who has treated on the fubjeft. He was, 
perhaps, the firft German tbeorift who could patiently be 
read by perfons ot talie, fo addicted were former writers 
to prolixity and pedantry. 
This author’s coup d'cjfai, as a mufical writer, was a pe¬ 
riodical work, entitled “ The Mulical Critic on the Spree, 
1747.” Then followed his “ Art of Playing the Harpfi- 
chord, in Three Parts,” from 1750 to 1755. After which 
“ ATreatife upon Fugue and Counterpoint,” in German, 
1753, and in French, 1756. This is the belt book of the 
kind that is extant, except Martini’s Saggio di Contrap- 
punto, which, for vocal fugues,, is perhaps fuperior; but 
for inltrumental, M. Pylarpurg’s work is Itiil more uleful. 
The hiftorical parr, however, is- feanty and inaccurate ; 
for, in the enumeration of organilts of different countries, 
though M. Marpurg, who had been in France and civilly 
treated there, is very grateful, yet he mentions no Engliih 
compofer of any kind but the feeble and flimly Felting, 
who, though a worthy man and much efteemed by ins 
friends, was far from a great player or good compofer. 
Among organilts, he juIt mentions Stanley and Keeble ; 
but of Handel’s iublime oratorio-chorufes and manner of 
playing the organ lie is wholly filent ; nor does he ever 
feem, to have heard of our Rofeingrave, Magnus, j. James, 
Kelwayj- or Worgan. Indeed, M. Marpurg was lo inge¬ 
nuous as to confefs, that he had injured his work by par¬ 
tiality to friends, whole productions he had frequently 
cited,.againlt his own judgment. In 1754, M. Marpurg 
began the publication of his “ Hiftorical and Critical Ei- 
fays towards the Advancement of Mufic tins work was 
clofed in 1762, and confilts of five volumes octavo. Thete 
eflays, with his “ Critical. Letters on the Art.of Malic,” 
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