MAN,-continued.

But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep,
Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth
Becomes as aged, and does beg the alms

Of palsied eld; and when thou art old, and rich,
Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty,
To make thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this,
That bears the name of life? Yet in this life
Lie hid more thousand deaths: yet death we fear,
That makes these odds all even.

Foolish wench!

To the most of men this is a Caliban,

And they to him are angels.

O the difference of man and man!

M. M. iii. 1.

T. i. 2.

K. L. iv. 2.

God made him, therefore let him pass for a man. M. V. i. 2.

There is no trust,

No faith, no honesty in men; all perjur'd,
All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

R. J. iii. 2.

A rarer spirit never

Did steer humanity; but you, gods, will give us
Some faults to make us men.

A. C. v. 1.

When we are born, we cry, that we are come

To this great stage of fools.

He was not born to shame:

K. L. iv. 6.

Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit;

For 'tis a throne where honor may be crown'd
Sole monarch of the universal earth.

R. J. iii. 2.

He was a man, take him for all in all,

I shall not look upon his like again.

H. i. 2.

You rogue, here's lime in this sack too: There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous man.

Every man is odd.

Who lives, that's not

H. IV. PT. I. ii. 4.

T. C. iv. 5.

Depraved, or depraves? who dies, that bears
Not one spurn to their graves of their friends' gift?

Man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

MANHOOD DETERIORATED.

T. A. i. 2.

M. A. v. 4.

But manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into compliment, and men are turned into tongue, and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie, and swears to it. M. A. iv. 1.

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. 1. 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.

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,-

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

A. I. iii. 5.

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.

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

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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.
My cue is villanous melancholy, with a sigh
Bedlam.

L. L. i. 1

P. P. i. 2.

A. W. v. 3.

M. N. i. 1. like Tom o' 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 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.

Melancholy as a lover's lute.

H. ii. 2. 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." 4. 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
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!

A. W. iv. 3.

Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice!

M.M. iii. 1.

M. M. iii. 1.

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.

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: