Matter. And never suffers matter of the world enter his thoughts - Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart - If the matter were good, my lord, I durft fwear it were his A. S. P. C. L. Trai. and Cre121 3 870142 Ibid. 5 3 888 2 3 Lear. I 2 933145 Hamlet. 3 110162 49 Othello. 341066121 Romeo and Juliet. 5 3 995126 - And he befeech'd me to entreat your majesties, to hear and see the matter Mattock. Give me that mattock, and the wrenching iron thy ftrength Troilus and Creff 4 5 8821 29 959 2 34 Comedy of Errors.3 1091 48 Twelfth Night. 3 1 321140 Titus Andronicus. 4 2 84752 Lear. 5 3 96;240 K. Jobn. 4 3 462 5 Maul. Put up thy fword betime, or I'll fo maul you and your toasting iron vice 901 27 21052 1 Meaf. for Meaf.3 2 - Methinks your maw like mine, fhould be your clock, and strike you home without a meflage Com. of Errors.1 -And none of you will bid the winter come, to thrust his icy fingers in my maw King John. 5 7 411148 -Thou deteftable maw, thou womb of death, gorg'd with the deareft morfel of the earth May of youth, and bloom of luftyhood To do obfervance to the morn of May No doubt, they rofe early to observe the rite of May Romeo and Juliet. 5 3 995153 Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives 177115 I 1902 48 1 Henry iv. 4464245 All's Well. 2 22851 52 Tis as much impoffible to fcatter 'em, as to make 'em fleep on May-day morning May-morn. And my thrice puiffant liege is in the very May-morn of his youth Henry v.1 Mazed. A little herd of England's timorous deer, maz'd with a yelping kennel of — And the quaint mazes in the wanton green, for lack of tread are undiftinguishable 1 1 Henry vi. 4 2 Midf. Night's Dream. 2 218018 Mazzard Chaplefs, and knock'd about the mazzard with a fexton's spade Hamlet. 5 11034136 -I'll knock o'er the mazzard you Meacock. A meacock wretch can make the curftest shrew Othello. 2 3 1056137 Tam. of the Shrew. 2 I 262252 Meades. Like meadows yet not dry with miry flime left on them by the flood T. A.31 842228 Meal and bran together he throws without distinction Romeo and Juliet. 5 1 954136 Meal'd. Were he meal'd with that, which he corrects, then were he tyrannous I 7222 28 To make fuch means for her as thou haft done, and leave her on fuch flight conditiens -Though I never had fo good means as defire to make myself acquainted with you ➡ I will come after you with what good speed our means will make us means All's Well.[5] 1301253 M-ans. Means. But they are most of them means and bafes -- Yet Nature is made better by no mean, but nature makes that mean The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected - I would my means were greater and my waist flenderer You have heard our caufe and know our means Winter's Tale., To line, and new repair, our towns of war, with men of courage, and defendant A. S. P.C.L. 2134812:57 Ibid. 3 350 221 Macbeth. 4 3 382115 Richard i. 142028 Ibid. 3 2 426 238 2 Henry iv. 2 47744 Ibid. 1 2 477 47 Ibid 13 478 153 - I know a discontented gentleman whose humble means match not his haughty minds with means One that made means to come by what he hath, and flaughter'd those that were the For want of means, poor rats, had hang'd themselves No mean of death, as here by Cæfar, and by you cut off Henry viii. 5 2 700 23 Julius Cefar.31 753 231 His means, if he improve them, may well ftretch fo far, as to annoy us all Ibid 1748146 His means most short, his creditors most straight Who, without those means thou talk'st of, didst thou ever know belov'd Ibid. 43823117 . That mean is cut from thee Your means abroad, you have me, rich - Though mean and mighty rotting together have one duft Titus Andronicus. 2 5 841213 - Full oft'tis feen, our mean fecures us; and our meer defects prove our commodities -No fudden mean of death, though ne'er fo mean Give thefe fellows fome means to the king You fhall by that perceive him and his means I have wafted myself out of my means Meanings. Speak'st thou in fober meanings Lear. 49531 9 Romeo and Juliet. 3 3 98529 We are not the firft, who with best meaning have incurr'd the worst Measure. Come not within the measure of my wrath Ibid. 4 2 1072/145 As You Like It. 5 2 246248 Lear. 53 9621 39 Two Gent. of Verona. 5 4 441 42 75 124236 Ibid. 1 3 124257 Ibid. 21 1261|17 Ibid. 21 1261 20 Much Ado About Notb.13 Fbid. 21 126 143 Say to her we have measur'd many miles, to tread a measure with her on this grafs For we must measure twenty miles to-day I have trod a measure Love's Labor Loft.5 2 167238 And you brides and bridegrooms all, with pleasure heap'd in joy, to the measures fall This is hard and undeferv'd measure As You Like It. 5 4 249242 - With thoughts fo qualified as your charities shall best instruct you, measure me Anon, we'll drink a measure the table round Winter's Tale. 2 1 3407 - My legscan keep no measure in delight, when my poor heart no measure keeps in grief -for measure must be answered - Our dreadful marches to delightful measures And a measure to lead them once again He cannot but with measure fit the honours which we devise him Are all thy conquefts, glories, triumphs, fpoils, fhrunk to this little - Most narrow measure lent me Richard ii. 3 4 430214 3 Henry vi. 26 615244 Richard 11 6332 Henry viii. 14 677246 Coriolanus. 2 2 7161 3 measure Julius Cafar. 31 753218 Antony and Cleopatra.3 783238 Cymbeline. 36 913218 Nor measure our minds by this rude place we live in But, let them measure us by what they will, we'll measure them a meafure, and be Lear. 4 7 96012 Romeo and Juliet. 4 9721 20 Ibid. 1 5 973241 Measure A. S. P. C. L Meafare. Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy be heap'd like mine Romeo and Juliet.2 6|981|226 Meat. That's meat and drink to me now A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age She eat no meat to-day, nor none shall eat Much Ado About Nothing. 482 8 Ibid. - Thou fee'ft how diligent I am, to drefs thy meat myfelf, and bring it thee Upon what meat doth this our Cæfar feed, that he is grown fo great Meazels. So fhall my lungs coin words 'till their decay, against those meazels Coriolanus.5 3 735252 - Rebukable, and worthy shameful check it were, to ftand on more mechanic compli ment Mechanical, falt-butter rogue I 74119 Ant. and Cleop.4 4 791255 Merry Wives of Wind. 2 2 5629 Being mechanical, you ought not to walk, upon a labouring day, without the fign of your profeffion Julius Cafar. Medal. Why he that wears her like her medal, hanging about his neck Winter's Tale. 1 2337136 Meddle with my thoughts Medea. In fuch a night, Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs that did renew old Æfon Tempeft.1 2 Into as many gobbets will I cut it, as wild Medea young Abfyrtus did 2 Henry vi. 5 2 2153 To apply a moral medicine to a mortifying mifchief All's Well. 2 Winter's Tale. 4 3 Antony and Cleop. Work on, my medicine, work! thus credulous fools are caught Mediterraneum. By the falt wave of the Mediterraneum Medlar. They would elfe have married me to this rotten medlar - I'll graff it with you, and then I shall graff it with a medlar For you'll be rotten ere you be half ripe, and that's the right virtue Now will he fit under a medlar tree, and with his mistrels were that kind of fruit, as maids call medlars Meddler. Not fcurvy, nor a temporary meddler An thou hadst hated meddlers fooner, thou shouldst have lov'd thyself better now Meed. Vouchfafe me for my meed but one fair look 355 154 381/20 2 Love's Labor Loft.5 5 773 2 11067|2|20 1 165226 3 97113 - Whatsoever I have merited either in my mind, or in my means meed M. W. of W.2 2 - To receive the meed of punishment Comedy of Errors. 21 Meekness. God bless thee, and put meekness in thy breast, love, charity, true duty Meer. Engaged my friend to his meer enemy, to feed my means 3 Henry vi. 2 2 613110 obedience, and Richard iii. 2 2 646149 Mer. of Ven. 3 2| 212|1|18| Meer Meer the truth A. S. P. C. L. All's Well 135 292 250 Meered. At fuch a point, when half to half the world opposed, he being the meered question Meereft. He cried upon it at the meerest lofs -- 1 From whom we thought it meet to hide our love If you think it meet, compound with him by the year Find me a meet hour So your doctors hold it very meet In a better hour let what is meet be said, it must be meet It is not meet you know how Cæfar lov'd you Antony and Cleop 311 788141 Induc. to Tam. of the Shrew. Tempeft, 1252115 1816 78.116 Ibid. 4 2 93 Meafure for Measure. Much Ado About Nothing.11 1221 Induc. to Tam. of the Shrew. 2 2542 Coriolanus. 1720254 Julius Cafar.32 7561 Cymbeline. 4 3 9191 53 Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit: all with me's meet, that I can fashion fit He therefore fends you, meeter for your spirit, this tun of treasure Meeteft. I am a tainted wether of the flock, meeteft for death Lear. 1 2 934 24 Richard ii. 21 42017 Henry v.12 513142 Merchant of Venice. 41215231 2 Henry vi. York is meetest man to be your Regent in the realm of France Meet food. Hath fuch meet food Meetly. You can do better yet; but this is meetly Richard iii. Much Ado About Noth. 567 653211 1 122229 Meiny. On whofe contents, they fummon'd up their meiny, straight took horfe Lear. 2 4 9431|25| Turn melancholy forth to funerals, the pale companion is not for our pomp I can fuck melancholy out of a fong as a wezel fucks eggs 44 Ibid. 12 250149 Midf. Night's Dream.11 17 Ibid. 32 237 -They fay you are a melancholy fellow,—I am so ; I do love it better than laughing -If I lofe a fcruple of this fport, let me be boil'd to death with melancholy Ibid. 2 5 317230 -The king is not at the palace: he is gone aboard a new ship to purge melancholy, and air himfelf Winter's Tale. 4 3 35713 — I am as melancholy as a gib cat, or a lugg'd bear, or an old lion, or a lover's lute, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bag-pipe.-What faith thou to a hare, or the melancholy of Moor ditch 1 Henry iv. 1 2 4432 K. John. 3 3 3993 - If that furly fpirit, melancholy, had bak'd thy blood, and made it heavy He is melancholy without caufe - You may call it melancholy, if you will favour the man 1 Henry iv. 23450 248 Troilus and Cre1 2 859139 Ibid. 2 3 869152 -O, melancholy! who ever yet could found thy bottom? find the ooze, to fhew what coaft thy fluggish crare might easiest harbour in Melford. Against the Duke of Suffolk for enclosing the commons of Melford 2 H. vi. 3 575 133 Mell. Men are to mell with, boys are but to kifs Cymbeline 42 916 249 All's Well. 43 29911 Mellifinous. Mellifluous voice Melleru. And might not be deliver'd to the world, till I had made mine -Profperity begins to mellow, and drop into the rotten mouth of death A. S. P. C.L. Twelfth Night.2 3 315|1 I own occalion Mellore bangings. But in one night a ftorm, or robbery, call it what you down my mellow hangings Melloring. Delivered upon the mellowing of occafion Melt. Nay, if you melt, then will she run mad I melt, and am not of stronger earth than others Melun, a French Lord. D. P. Ibid. 2 308151 Richard iii. 4 4 659135 620 145 3 Henry vi. 3 3 will, fhook Cymbeline. 3 3 908 234 Love's Labor Loft: 4 2 159156 I Henry iv 3459110 Coriolanus. 5 3 735145 King John. 387 Members. As fefter'd members rot but by degrees, 'till bones and flesh and finews fall away 1 Henry vi. 3 1556237 Memorial. And fighs, and takes my glove, and gives memorial dainty kifles to it, as I kifs thee Troilus and Cre5 2 886130 Memorize. Or memorize another Golgotha Made fuch a finner of his memory to credit his own lie -Thefe are begot in the ventricle of memory - Unbreath'd memories Henry viii. 3 2 Two Gent. of Verona. 5 4 Mid. Night's Dream. 5 I 192259 As You Like It. 2 3 23017 Macbeth. 7 368225 Ibid. 5 3 384 221 -Therefore will he wipe his tables clean, and keep no tell-tale to his memory 2 H. iv.41 O you memory of old Sir Rowland That memory, the warden of the brain shall be a fume - Pluck from the memory a rooted forrow -That ever living man of memory Henry the fifth - Blotting your names from books of memory - Yet he thall have a noble memory - Why should I write this down, that's riveted, fcrew'd to my memory -But our great court made me to blame in memory Memories. Thefe weeds are memories of thofe worfer hours The memory be green Tis in my memory lock'd, and you yourself fhall keep the key of it -If it live in your memory 2 Henry vi.1 1 Coriclanns.5 5 739232 Then there's hope, a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year Cymbeline. 2 2 9022 2 - 1 have fome rights of memory in this kingdon, which now to claim my vantage doth invite me Mercatante. A mercatante, or a pedant, I know not what, but formal in apparel Mercatio the rich Merry Wives of Wind. I 471 I 147 For many of our princes (woe the while) lie drown'd and foak'd in mercenary blood 52 Tam. of the Shrew. 4 2 26256 2 21 20 Merch. of Venice.4 1 218155 Menteith, Earl of |