If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright,
Go visit it by the pale moonlight;
For the gay beams of lightsome day,
Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey.

Ibid, canto 2, stanza 1.

MEN ARE, &c.

Men are but children of a larger growth.
DRYDEN, All for Love, act 4, scene 1.

For men, in reason's sober eyes,
Are children, but of larger size.
LLOYD, Epi. to Colman.

MEN MAY, &c.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. YOUNG, Night 4, line 842.

MEN'S EVIL.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.

SHAKSPERE, King Henry 8th, act 4, scene 2.

MERCY.

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.

Ibid, Measure for Measure, act 2, scene 2.

R

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.

SHAKSPERE, Merchant of Venice, act 4, scene 1. Earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.

Ibid.

MERRY.

And all went merry as a marriage bell.
BYRON, Childe Harold, canto 3, stanza 21.

METHODIST.

This appellation was first given to a Society of Students in the University at Oxford.

MILNER'S Essay on Religious Subjects, 1789. p. 11.

MID-DAY.

It is not right, good shepherd, it is not right for us to pipe at mid-day: we are afraid of Pan; for in truth it is then he reposes

BANKS' Theocritus, Idyll 1, p. 2.

This habit of the gods sleeping in the mid-day heat, is introduced by Virgil in the fourth Georgic, v. 401 :

I myself, as soon as the sun has inflamed his noontide heats; when the herbs thirst, and the shade becomes more grateful to the cattle, will conduct you into the old god's retreats, whither he retires from the waves when fatigued.

Warton quotes 1 Kings, c. 18, v. 27. "And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said 'cry aloud for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.'"

BANKS' Theocritus, supra, note 6.

MIDNIGHT OIL.

I trimm'd my lamp, consum'd the midnight oil.
SHENSTONE, Elegy, 11, v. 7.

Nor watch the wasting of the midnight oil.
GAY, Trivia, book 2, line 558.

Pardon me, ye that give the midnight oil,
To learned cares, or philosophic toil.
COWPER, Retirement.

Nor pity such laborious toil,
And loss of midnight time and oil.
LLOYD, On Rhyme.

Whence is thy learning? hath thy toil
O'er books consum'd the midnight oil?
GAY, Shepherd and Philosopher, line 15.
Such, though they waste the midnight oil,
In dull, minute, perplexing toil.

LLOYD, Author and Friend.

MILDLY.

Mildly and soft the Western breeze,
Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees;
And the pleased lake, like maiden coy,
Trembled but dimpled not for joy.

SCOTT, Lady of the Lake, canto 3, stanza 2.

MISERY.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
SHAKSPERE, Tempest, act 2, scene 2.

MISFORTUNE, &c.

Yet still they might be safe, because unknown,
But as ill fortune seldom comes alone,
The vessel they dismiss'd was driv'n before,
Already shelter'd on their native shore.
DRYDEN, Cymon and Iphi.

MIX.

Mix a short folly, that unbends the mind.
FRANCIS' Horace, book 4, ode 12.

MODESTY AND CHASTITY

Come thou, whose thoughts as limpid springs are clear, To lead the train, sweet Modesty, appear;

With thee be Chastity, of all afraid,

Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid;

Cold is her breast, like flowers that drink the dew,
A silken veil conceals her from the view.

COLLINS, Eclogue 1.

MONUMENTAL CLAY. J

May I lie cold before that dreadful day,
Press'd with a load of monumental clay.
POPE, Homer's Iliad, book 6, line 590.

MOON.

The full-orb'd moon, with her nocturnal ray
Shed o'er the scene a lovely flood of day.

WHEELWRIGHT's Pindar, Olym, Ode 10, line 102.
The sacred Queen of Night,

Who pours a lovely, gentle light,
Wide o'er the dark, by wanderer's blest,
Conducting them to peace and rest.
THOMSON, Ode to Seraphina.

The Moon is in her summer glow,
But hoarse and high the breezes blow,
And, racking o'er her face, the cloud
Varies the tincture of her shroud.

SCOTT, Rokeby, canto 1.

My Lord, they say, five moons were seen to-night: Four fixed; and the fifth did whirl about

The other four, in wond'rous motion.

SHAKSPERE, King John, act 4, scene 2.

MOON AND STARS.

The moon look'd out with all her stars.

Annie of Lochroyan.-Cunningham's Ballad Poetry.

Hence heaven looks down on earth with all her eyes. YOUNG, Night 7, line 1094.

Mine is the night, with all her stars.

YOUNG, Paraphrase on Job, line 147.

MORE HASTE, LESS SPEED.

Running together all about,

The servants put each other out,