MALEDICTION,-continued. From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him By inch-meal a disease! If ever he have child, abortive be it, Prodigious, and untimely brought to light, Whose ugly and unnatural aspéct May fright the hopeful mother at the view; And that be heir to his unhappiness. T. ii. 2. R. III. i. 2. Dower'd with our curse, and stranger'd with an oath. K.L.i.1. Why, thou damnable box of envy, thou, what meanest thou, to curse thus. MALEVOLENCE. Had I power, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound T.C. v. 1. All unity on earth. I will fight Against my canker'd country, with the spleen MALICE. M. iv. 3. C. iv. 5. Men, that make H. VIII. v. 2. Envy, and crooked malice nourishment, MALIGNITY. A dagger of the mind; a false creation, MAN (See also ILLUSION, LIFE, DEATH). M. ii. 1. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form, and moving, how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! They say, best men are moulded out of faults, For being a little bad. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; H. ii. 2. M. M. v. 1 As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clep'd, All by the name of dogs: the valued file That writes them all alike: and so of men. M. iii. 1. MAN,-continued. be. We came crying hither. K. L. iv. 6. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may Know thou this:-that men Are as the time is. O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! This was the noblest Roman of them all: A breath thou art, (Servile to all the skiey influences), H. iv. 5. R. III. iii. 4. J.C. v. 5. K. L. iii. 4. That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Are nurs'd by baseness: Thou art by no means valiant; Of a poor worm: Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more. Thou art not thyself; After the moon: If thou art rich, thou art poor; Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum, For ending thee no sooner: Thou hast nor youth, nor age; MAN,-continued. But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth Of palsied eld; and when thou art old, and rich, 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, A rarer spirit never R. J. iii. 2. Did steer humanity; but you, gods, will give us A. C. v. 1. When we are born, we cry, that we are come K. L. iv. 6. To this great stage of fools. He was not born to shame: 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. He was a man, take him for all in all, R. J. iii. 2. H. i. 2. I shall not look upon his like again. 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 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 MARRIAGE (SEE also ESPOUSAL). A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands, Strengthened by interchangement of your rings; Marriage is a matter of more worth H. v. 2. T. N. v. 1. H.VI. PT. I. v. 5. Earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, 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 : Sell when you can; you are not for all markets. A. Y. iii. 5. MARRIAGES, MERCENARY. The hearts of old, gave hands; MARTLET. This guest of summer, The temple-hunting martlet, does approve, By his lov'd mansionry, that the heaven's breath, O. iii. 4. 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. Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool; farewell! your arm. MEDIATOR. H. iii. 4. R. J. iii. 1. 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 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. |