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took place in. the beginning of December 1637, (hould 
have quitted it precifely in 1644-, becaufe fne was difpleafed 
with her apartments ? How happened it that her apart¬ 
ments difpleafed her this year, and neither fooner nor 
later f She might undoubtedly have had any kind of 
furniture there which frie defired, and every alteration 
made according to her vvilhes, as (he was then abfolute 
miftrefs ; but the caufe of her determination is plain ; the 
apartments of the Palais Royal, which front a garden, 
were much more convenient for her to be delivered in 
fecret.” 
6 . As it is neceflary that fome name (hould be given to 
every man, in order to diftinguiih him from another, that 
of Marchiali was given to the man with the iron ma(k; a 
name which evidently (hows, that it had been invented by 
an Italian. Cardinal Mazarine was a native of Pifcina in 
the Abruzzo. 
7. Anne of Auftria was remarkably delicate refpefiing 
every thing that touched her perfon. It was with great 
difficulty that cambric could be found fine enough to 
make fnifts and (beets for her. Cardinal Mazarine, once 
rallying her on this fubjeft, faid, That, if (lie (hould be 
damned, her punifliment in hell would be to (leep in 
coarfe (heets. The predominant tafte of the man with 
the iron ma(k was to have lace and linen of the mod ex¬ 
traordinary finenefs. “Who (fays the author) does not 
perceive, in this (imilarity of tabes, the maternal tender- 
nefs of Anne of Auftria, who would have thought her 
fon a great fufferer had he not been indulged with fine 
linen 
“ Louis XIII. (continues.M. de St. Mihiel) was a huf- 
band of a gloomy difpofition, and an enemy to pleafure; 
while the queen, on the contrary, was fond of focial life ; 
and introduced at the court of France, efpecially after (he 
became free, that eafe and politenefs which diliinguifhed 
it, under Louis XIV. from all the other courts of Europe. 
Louis XIII. had alfo a difagreeable countenance, and a 
breath fo offenfive, that it was a punifiiment for Richelieu 
to remain near him. It is clear, therefore, that (lie could 
not be much pleafed with fuch a hulband. When (he be¬ 
came regent of the kingdom by the king’s death, which 
happened on the 15th of May, 164.3, as (he had not en¬ 
joyed that happinefs which arifes from a clofe union of 
hearts, it will not appear extraordinary that (he (hould 
indulge the affection (lie entertained for cardinal Maza¬ 
rine, and that (lie (hould marry him. Every circumftance 
that could tend to favour fuch a marriage will be found 
united in her fituation. She was at a diftance from her 
family ; abfolute miftrefs of all her aftions ; and had, be- 
fides, a heart formed for love. Mazarine, though a car¬ 
dinal, had never entered into orders ; he gave out tliqt he 
was defcended from a great family ; he was handfome and 
well-made ; he was of a mild infiqtiating difpofition, and 
remarkably engaging in converfation ; and his office, as 
prime minifter, afforded him every opportunity of vifuing 
and converfing with the queen whenever he thought pro¬ 
per. Is it, therefore, fo very aftoniftiing, that, with fo 
many advantages, he was able to captivate the queen fo 
far as to induce her to marry him ? Such a marriage was 
not, indeed, according to the ufual courfe of things. Yet 
it was not without many precedents, particularly among 
fovereigns of the other fex, who had given their hands to 
perfons of inferior rank. Thus Chriftian IV. of Denmark 
efpoufed Chriftina Monck; Frederic IV. efpoufed made- 
moifelle Rewentlaw ; James II. heir to the throne of Eng¬ 
land, married the daughter of a counfeiior; Peter the 
Great raifed to the throne Catharine I. the daughter of a 
poor villager, yet perhaps the molt accomplifned woman at 
that time between the Viftula and the Pole; and Louis XIV. 
efpoufed the widow of a poet, but a woman poffefled of 
the moft extraordinary merit. As the women, however, 
are not forgiven fo readily as the men for entering into 
iucii marriages, Anne of Auftria kept hers a fecret from 
this motive, and becaufe (he would have been in danger 
ot lofing the-regency of the kingdom had it been known.” 
Vox,. XIV. No. 991. 
M A S 503 
The renfoiwng of M. de St. Mihiel is both ingenious 
and plauffblej though the probability of the account is 
fomewhat diminiffied by conlidering what muft have been 
the queen’s age at this period, after (he had been Louis’s 
wife for twenty-nine years before his death. The account 
immediately preceding, without this objection, feerns 
abundantly credible. But, whether, upon the whole, ei¬ 
ther of them can be received as decifive, or whether the 
myftery of the iron ma(k remains (till to be unravelled, we 
muft leave to the reader to determine. 
MAS'QUE LON'GE, or Kennoncheoue, a river of 
America, which runs into Lake Michigan in lat. 43. 10. N. 
Ion. 87. 4. W. 
MAS’QUE POCO'NA, a jurifdicfion of Peru, in the 
audience of Charcas, extending about thirty leagues. 
The temperature is hot, but not in a degree too great for 
vineyards. The valley in which the city hands is above 
eight leagues in circumference, and produces all kinds of 
grain and fruit ; and the woods and uncultivated moun¬ 
tains afford great quantity of honey and wax, which con- 
ftitute a principal branch of its commerce. The city of 
the fame name, which is the ufual refidence of the bifhop 
of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, is very thinly inhabited, though 
in other parts of the jurifdi&ion there are fe-veral populous 
towns. Ulloa's Very. vol. ii. 
MASQUERA'DE, /. A aiverfion jn which the com¬ 
pany is malked.-—The word comes from the Italian maf- 
carata , and that from the Arabic ma/cara^ which lignifies 
raillery, buffoonery. Granacci, who died in 1543, is faid 
to have been the firft inventor of mafquerades. Chambers. 
What guards the purity of melting maids. 
In courtly halls and midnight mafquerades, 
Safe from the treach’rous friend, and daring (park. 
The glance by day, the whifper in the dark ? Pcpa 
Difguife.—I was upon the frolic this evening, and came 
to vifit thee in mafquerade. Dryden's Spanijh Fryer. 
To MASQUERA’DE, v.n. To go in difguife. — A freak 
took an afs in the head, and he goes into the woods, maf- 
querading up and down in a lion’s (kin. L' Ejlrange. —To 
alfemble in ma(ks.—I find that our art hath not gained 
much by the happy revival of mafquerading among us. 
Swift. 
MASQUER A'DER, f. A perfon in a ma(k.—The moft 
dangerous fort of cheats are but mafqu.traders under the 
vizor of friends. VEjlrange. 
M ASQUERA'DING,/. The acl of appearing in amafk 3 
of frequenting mafquerades. 
MASQUINON'GE, a lake of Canada ; nine miles 
north-welt of Montreal. Lat. 4.7. 10. N. Ion. 74.10.W. 
—Alfo, a river which runs into this lake. 
MASRAKI'THA, f. A wind-inftrument of mufic 
among the ancient Hebrews, compofed of pipes of .various 
fizes, fitted into a kind of wooden cheft, open at the top, 
and (topped at the bottom with wood covered witha lkin. 
Wind was conveyed to it from the lips, by means of a pipe 
fixed to the cheft ; the pipes were of lengths mufically 
proportioned to each other, and the melody was varied at 
pleafure, by (topping qnd unftopping with the fingers the 
apertures at the upper extremity. See Music. 
MASRE'KAH,/. [Heb. one that whiffles.] The name 
of a city. Gen. xxxvi. 36. 
MAS'RI, a town of Perfia, in the province of Kerman s 
160 miles eaft-north-eaft of Servian. 
MASS,/. [maJJe, Fr. inajfa, Lat.] A. body 3 a lump; a 
continuous quantity.—If it were not for thefe prineipleSj 
the bodies of the earth, planets, comets, fun, and all things 
in them, would grow cold and freeze, and become inaftive 
majfcs. Newton's Oplics.~A large quantity.—He difeoveted 
to me the richeft mines which the Spaniards have, and 
from whence all the mafs of gold that comes into Spain is 
drawn. Raleigh. 
Thy fumptuous buildings, and thy wife’s attire, 
Have rioft a mafs of public treafury. Shahefpeare. 
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