MARTLET,-continued. Nor coigne of 'vantage, but this bird hath made The martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, MASKED LADIES. M. i. 6. M. V. ii. 9. Fair ladies, mask'd, are roses in their bud: Dismask'd, their damask sweet commixture shown, Are angels veiling clouds, or roses blown. MATURITY. Mellow'd by the stealing hours of time. MEALS. Unquiet meals make ill digestions. MEANING. Take our good meaning; for our judgment sits MEDDLER. 'Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes L. L. v. 2. R. III. iii. 7. C. E. v. 1. R. J. i. 4. H. v. 2. H. iii. 4. Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool; farewell! MEDIATOR. I was hardly moved to come to thee; but being assured none but myself could move thee, I have been blown out of your gates with sighs; and conjure thee to pardon Rome, and thy petitionary countrymen. MEDITATION. Measuring his affections by my own, That most are busied when they're most alone. MEEKNESS. 'Beseech your majesty, Forbear sharp speeches to her she's a lady So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes, MEETING. C. v. 2. R. J. i. 1. Cym. iii. 5 Here is like to be a great presence of worthies. L. L. v. 2. T. S. IND. 2. PT. I. ii. 3. MELANCHOLY (See also DESPONDENCY, MADNESS). A. W. v. 3. M. N. i. 1. I have of late (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercises: and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. H. ii. 2. Melancholy as a lover's lute. H. IV. PT. I. i. 2. Boy, what sign is it, when a man of great spirit grows melancholy? L. L. i. 2. We have been up and down to seek for thee; for we are high proof melancholy, and would fain have it beaten away: Wilt thou use thy wit? M. A. v. 1. I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these; but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many.simples, extracted from many objects: and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me, is a most humorous sadness." A. Y. iv. 1. Why, he will look upon his boot, and sing; mend the ruff, and sing; ask questions, and sing; pick his teeth, and sing: I knew a man that had this trick of melancholy, sold a goodly manor for a song. A. W. iii. 2. Would the fountain of your mind were clear again, that I might water an ass at it. There's something in his soul, O'er which his melancholy sits on brood; And, I do doubt, the hatch, and the disclose, Will be some danger. O, melancholy! Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? find T.C. iii. 3. H. iii. 1. MELANCHOLY,-continued. Cym. iv. 2. The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish crare This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions: these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. MEN, DESTROYER OF. Cannibally given. MERCENARY. L. L. iv. 2. C. iv. 5. Sir, for a quart d'écu he will sell the fee-simple of his salvation, the inheritance of it; and cut the entail from all remainders. O, dishonest wretch! O fie, fie, fie! A. W. iv. 3. vice! M. M. iii. 1. M. M. iii. 1. Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade. MERCHANTMEN. Your mind is tossing on the ocean; That curt'sy to them, do them reverence, Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods? It is an attribute to God himself: M. W. ii. 2. M.V. i. 1 Tit. And. i. 2. MERCY,-continued. And earthly pow'r doth then show likest God's, Alas! alas! Why, all the souls that are, were forfeit once; I am an humble suitor to your virtues; And none but tyrants use it cruelly. If little faults, proceeding on distemper, M.V. iv. 1. M M. ii. 2. T. A. iii. 5. Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye, Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: IIis faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him. Well, believe this; No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, H.V. ii. 2. H.VIII. iii. 2. Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, Lawful mercy is Nothing akin to foul redemption. Though justice be thy plea, consider this : That in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render M. M. ii. 2. M. M. ii. 4. M.V. iv. 1. Mercy is not itself that oft looks so; M. M. ii. 1. You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy; H.V. ii. 2. MERIT. There is more owing her than is paid; and more shall be paid her than she'll demand. A. W. i. 3. You see, my good wenches, how men of merit are sought after. H.IV. PT. II. ii. 4. MERIT,-continued. Thou art so far before, That swiftest wing of recompense is slow To overtake thee. DEPENDENT. Better it is to die, better to starve, Than crave the hire which first we do deserve. MERRY WIVES. Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. MESSENGER (See also NEws). M. i. 4. C. ii. 3. M. W. iv. 2. The first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd knolling a departed friend. H. IV. PT. II. i. 1. Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news: Give to a gracious message Here is a dear and true industrious friend, A. C. ii. 5. Betwixt that Holmedon, and this seat of ours; I have not seen So likely an ambassador of love; H. IV. PT. I. i. 1. See what a ready tongue suspicion hath ! M.V. ii. 9. K. J. i. 1. That which he fear'd is chanc'd. Yet speak, Morton, And I will take it as a sweet disgrace; And make thee rich for doing me much wrong. H. IV. PT. . i. 1. How doth my son, and brother? Thou tremblest, and the whiteness in thy cheek |