More merry tears The passion of loud laughter never shed.
1191 SHAKS.: _Mid. N. Dream,_ Act v., Sc. 1.
Come, thou Goddess fair and free, In heav'n yclept Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth.
1192 MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 11.
As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.
1193 BURNS: _Tam o' Shanter._
=Mischief.=
O, mischief! thou art swift To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
1194 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act v., Sc. 1.
When to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill!
1195 POPE: _R. of the Lock,_ Canto iii., St. 125.
=Misery.=
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.
1196 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act v., Sc. 1.
Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.
1197 POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. v., Line 572.
=Misfortune.=
One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow.
1198 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iv., Sc. 7.
As if Misfortune made the throne her seat, And none could be unhappy but the great.
1199 NICHOLAS ROWE: _Fair Penitent. Prologue._
=Mobs.=
You have many enemies that know not Why they are so, but, like to village curs, Bark when their fellows do.
1200 SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act ii., Sc. 4.
The rabble all alive, From tippling benches, cellars, stalls, and sties, Swarm in the streets.
1201 COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. vi., Line 704.
=Mockery.=
Hence, horrible shadow!
Unreal mockery, hence!
1202 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.
=Modesty.=
Her looks do argue her replete with modesty.
1203 SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.
Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty.
1204 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.
=Monarchs.=
A morsel for a monarch.
1205 SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act i., Sc. 5.
A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs.
1206 THOMSON: _Seasons, Summer,_ Line 1285.
=Money.=
This yellow slave Will knit and break religions; bless the accurs'd; Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves, And give them title, knee, and approbation, With senators on the bench.
1207 SHAKS.: _Timon of A.,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.
He had rolled in money like pigs in mud.
1208 Hood: _Miss Kilmansegg._
'T is true we've money, th' only power That all mankind falls down before.
1209 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto ii., Line 1327.
Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.
1210 BEN JONSON: _Every Man in His Humour,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.
=Months.=
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
1211 _Common in the New England States._
=Monuments.=
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.
1212 SHAKS.: _Sonnet 55._
=Mood.=