MANHOOD DETERIORATED,-continued.

Go thy ways, old Jack; die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring. H. IV. PT. I. ii. 4.

MANUSCRIPT.

I once did hold it, as our statists do,

A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much
How to forget that learning; but, sir, now
It did me yeoman's service.

MARRIAGE (SEE also ESPOUSAL).

A contract of eternal bond of love,

Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands,
Attested by the holy close of lips,

Strengthened by interchangement of your rings;
And all the ceremony of this compact
Seal'd in my function by my testimony.

Marriage is a matter of more worth
Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
For what is wedlock forced, but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife?
Whereas the contrary bringeth forth bliss,
And is a pattern of celestial peace.

H. v. 2.

T. N. v. 1.

H.VI. PT. I. v. 5.

Earthlier happy is the rose distill'd,
Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn,
Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.
She's not well married, that lives married long;
But she's best married, that dies married young.

M. N. i. 1.

R. J. iv. 5.

Pale primroses,

That die unmarried, ere they can behold

Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady

Most incident to maids.

W. T. iv. 3

But, mistress, know yourself; down on your knees,

And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love:
For I must tell you friendly in your ear,—

A. Y. iii. 5

Sell when you can; you are not for all markets.

MARRIAGES, MERCENARY.

The hearts of old, gave hands;
But our new heraldry is-hands, not hearts.

MARTLET.

This guest of summer,

The temple-hunting martlet, does approve,

By his lov'd mansionry, that the heaven's breath,
Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze, buttress,

O. iii. 4

MARTLET,-continued.
Nor coigne of 'vantage, but this bird hath made
His pendent bed, and procreant cradle: Where they
Most breed and haunt, I have observ'd the air
Is delicate.

The martlet

Builds in the weather on the outward wall,
Even in the force and road of casualty.

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
Five times in that, ere once in our five wits.

MEDDLER.

'Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes
Between the pass and fell incensed points
Of mighty opposites.

Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool; farewell!
I took thee for thy better; take thy fortune:
Thou find'st, to be too busy, is some danger.

L. L. v. 2.

R. III. iii. 7.

C. E. v. 1.

R. J. i. 4.

H. v. 2.

H. iii. 4.

Why, the devil, came you between us? I was hurt under your arm. R. J. iii. 1.

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,
And strokes death to her.

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.

MELANCHOLY (See also DESPONDENCY, Madness).

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

T. S. IND. 2.

Thick-ey'd musing, and curs'd melancholy. H.IV. PT. 1. ii. 3.

Besieged with sable-coloured melancholy.

The sad companion, dull-ey'd melancholy.

I am wrapp'd in dismal thinkings.
Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.

L. L. i. 1

P. P. i. 2.

A. W. v. 3.

M. N. i. 1.

My cue is villanous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o'
Bedlam.
K. L. i. 2.

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 excel-
lent 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 pesti-
lent congregation of vapours.
H. ii. 2.
H. IV. PT. I. i. 2.

Melancholy as a lover's lute.

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 emula-
tion; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the
courtier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is am-
bitious; 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 con-
templation 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. iü. 1.

MELANCHOLY,-continued.

Cym. iv. 2.

The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish crare
Might easiest harbour in?
MEMORY, THE STORES OF THE (See also REMEMBRance).

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 !

Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice!

O fie, fie, fie!

Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade.
Think'st thou, I'll endanger my soul gratis?

MERCHANTMEN.

Your mind is tossing on the ocean;
There, where your argosies with portly sail,
Like signiors and rich burghers of the flood,
Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,—
Do overpeer the petty traffickers,

That curt'sy to them, do them reverence,
As they fly by them with their woven wings.
MERCY.

A. W. iv. 3.

M.M. iii. 1.

M. M. iii. 1.

M. W. ii. 2.

M.V. i. 1

Tit. And. i. 2.

Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods?
Draw near them then in being merciful:
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
The quality of mercy is not strain'd;
It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven,
Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd;
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes:
"Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway,
It is enthroned in the heart of kings,

It is an attribute to God himself:

MERCY,-continued.

And earthly pow'r doth then show likest God's,
When mercy seasons justice.

Alas! alas!

Why, all the souls that are, were forfeit once;
And He that might th' advantage best have took,
Found out the remedy: How would you be,
If He, who is the top of judgment, should
But judge you as you are? O, think on that;
And mercy then will breathe within your lips,
Like man new made.

I am an humble suitor to your virtues;
For pity is the virtue of the law,

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,

When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd, and digested,
Appear before us?

Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:

His 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,
The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,
Become them with one half so good a grace,

As mercy does.

Lawful mercy is

Nothing akin to foul redemption.

Though justice be thy plea, consider this:

M.M. ii. 2.

M.M. ii. 4.

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
The deeds of mercy.

M.V. iv. 1.

Mercy is not itself that oft looks so;

Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.

M. M. ii. 1.

You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy;

H.V. ii. 2.

For your own reasons turn into your bosoms,
As dogs upon their masters, worrying them.

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
H.IV. PT. II. ii. 4.

after.