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MEN.-They are but children too, though they have grey hairs they are indeed of a larger size.

SENECA.-On Anger, Chap. VIII.

To each his sufferings: all are men,

Condemn'd alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, The unfeeling for his own.

GRAY.-Prospect of Eton College, Stanza 10.

Of such materials wretched men were made.

BYRON.-The Lament of Tasso, Stanza VI.
Line 11.

Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
SHAKSPERE.-Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 2.
Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither.
SHAKSPERE.-King Lear, Act V. Scene 2.

Men

Are masters to their females, and their lords;
Then let your will attend on their awards,

SHAKSPERE.-Comedy of Errors, Act II. Scene 1.
(Luciana to Adriana.)

MEND.-To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.

POPE.-Prol. to ADDISON'S Cato, Line 1.

MENTIONS.-To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite,
Who never mentions hell to ears polite.

POPE.-Moral Essays, Epi. IV. to BURLINGTON,

Line 149.

MERCHANT.-The restless merchant, he that loves to steep His brains in wealth, and lays his soul to sleep

In bags of bullion, sees th' immortal crown,

And fain would mount, but ingots keep him down:

He brags to-day, perchance, and begs to-morrow:

He lent but now, wants credit now to borrow.

Blow, winds, the treasure's gone, the merchant's broke ;
A slave to silver's but a slave to smoke.

QUARLES.-Book II. Emblem 4.

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MERCHANT.-In Venice state
Where merchants gilt the top.

MARSTON.-What You Will, Act I.

Strike, louder strike, th' ennobling strings,
To those whose merchant sons were kings.

COLLINS.-Ode to Liberty, Line 42.

MERCY.-Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

SHAKSPERE.-Titus Andronicus, Act I. Scene 2.

Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

COWPER.-The Task, Book VI. Line 595.

Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so;

Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.

SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act II.
Scene 1.

The gates of mercy shall be all shut up.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry V. Act III. Scene 3.

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.

SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act II.
Scene 2.

Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will;

'Tis godlike to have power, but not to kill.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-The Chances, Act II.
Scene 2.

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.

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act IV.
Scene 1.

It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,

It is an attribute to God himself;

An earthly power doth then show likest God's

When mercy seasons justice.

SHAKSPERE.-Ibid. Act IV. Scene 1.

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MERCY.-There is no more mercy in him than there is milk

in a male tiger.

SHAKSPERE -Coriolanus, Act V. Scene 4.

Betwixt the stirrup and the ground,

Mercy I asked, mercy I found.

CAMDEN'S REMAINS.-Quoted by Malone in Boswell's Johnson, Vol. IV. Page 225, 5th Edition; improved by the Doctor as follows:

Between the stirrup and the ground,

I mercy ask'd, I mercy found.

Therefore,

Though justice be thy plea, consider this-
That in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act IV.
Scene 1.

Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept
Essential love.

POLLOK.-The Course of Time, Book III.

MERITS.-On their own merits modest men are dumb; "Plaudite et vulete"-TERENCE-Hum!

COLMAN-Epilogue to Heir-at-Law, last lines.

MERRY.-I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad.

SHAKSPERE.-As You Like it, Act IV. Scene 1.

I am not merry; but I do beguile

The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act II. Scene 1.

I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act V. Scene 1.

Jog on, jog on, the footpath way,

And merrily hent the stile-a ;

A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a.

SHAKSPERE.-Winter's Tale, Act IV. Scene 2.

How oft, when men are at the point of death,

Have they been merry.

SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act V. Scene 3. (Romeo at Juliet's tomb.)

MERRY-MIND.

MERRY. And if you can be merry then, I'll say
A man may weep upon his wedding-day.

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SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII. Prologue, last

lines.

METAL.-Yielding Metal flow'd to human form.
POPE.-To Augustus, Epi. I. Line 148.

Here's metal more attractive.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2.
(To his Mother.)

Why, now I see there's mettle in thee: and even, from this instant, do build on thee a better opinion than before. SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act IV. Scene 2.

By this good light, a wench of matchless mettle.

SCOTT.-Fortunes of Nigel, Chap. XIX.

METHINKS.-Methinks, I scent the morning's air.
SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5.

MILDLY.-Well, mildly be it then, mildly.

SHAKSPERE.-Coriolanus, Act III. Scene 2.

MILK.-A land flowing with milk and honey.
NUMBERS.-Chap. XIV. Verse 13.

May the Himera flow with milk instead of water! May the fountain of Sybaris flow with honey!

BANKS' Theocritus.-Idyll V. Page 32.

MILLINER-He was perfumed like a milliner.
SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part I. Act I.
Scene 3. (Hotspur.)

MIND.-Were I so tall to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span,

I must be measur'd by my soul:

The mind's the standard of the man.

WATTS.-False Greatness, Verse 3.

The mind is the proper judge of the man.

SENECA. Happy Life, Chap. I.

John Gilpin kiss'd his loving wife;
O'erjoyed was he to find

That, though on pleasure she was bent,

She had a frugal mind.

COWPER.-John Gilpin, Verse 8.

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MIND. The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort,

Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
Give Truth a lustre, and make Wisdom smile.
COWPER.—Retirement, Line 715.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill,
That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

SPENSER.-Fairy Queen, Book VI. Canto 9.

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

SHAKSPERE. Taming of the Shrew, Act IV.
Scene 3; SENECA.-Happy Life, Chap. XV.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 104.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

PROVERB-Motto of the Emperor Nerva; RILEY'S
Dictionary of Classical Quotations, 227.

The mind is in fault, which never escapes from itself.
SMART'S Horace.-Book I. Epi. 14.

How fleet is the glance of the mind
Compared with the speed of its flight!
The tempest itself lags behind,

And the swift-winged arrows of light.

COWPER.-Alex, Selkirk, Verse 6.

A monarch clothed with majesty and awe,
His mind his kingdom, and his will his law.
COWPER.-Truth, Line 405.

A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

GREENE.-Song, "Sweet are the Thoughts,"
Last Line.

My mind to me a kingdom is;

Such perfect joy therein I find

As far exceeds all earthly bliss,

That God or nature hath assign'd:

Though much I want, that most would have,

Yet still my mind forbids to crave.

SIR EDMUND DIER.

[See "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry," by Thomas Percy, Lord Bishop of Dromore, Vol. I. Page 307; and BYRD'S Psalms, Sonnets, &c. The thought is said to be from Seneca; see the verse in the Thyestes: Mens regnum bona possidet. Gifford's Ed. of Ben Jonson's Plays, Page 28.]

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