Mars Year, the year 1715, in which occurred the rebellion of the earl of Mar.
Sin Mar’s year did desire.
—Burns: Halloween, 27.
Marseillaise. (See KUBLA KHAN, p. 583.)
Marseilles’ Good Bishop, Henri François Xavier de Belsunce (1671–1775). Immortalized by his philanthropic diligence in the plague at Marseilles (1720–1722).
Charles Borromeo, archbishop of Milan a century previously (1576), was equally diligent and self-sacrificing in the plague of Milan (1538–1584).
Sir John Lawrence, lord mayor of London during the great plague, supported 40,000 dismissed servants, and deserves immortal honour.
(Darwin refers to Belsunce and Lawrence in his Loves of the Plants, ii. 433.)