Chapter Morecraft to Morna of M by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Faciem plerumque inficiunt fuligine, et peregrinum vestium cultum assumunt, qui ludicris talibus indulgent, aut Mauri esse videantur, aut e longius remotâ patriâ credanture advolasse.—Junius.

Morland, in Lend Me Five Shillings, by J. Maddison Morton (1838).

Morland (Henry), “the heir-at-law” of baron Duberly. It was generally supposed that he had perished at sea; but he was cast on cape Breton, and afterwards returned to England, and married Caroline Dormer an orphan.—Colman: The Heir-at-Law (1797).

Mr. Beverley behaved like a father to me [B. Webster], and engaged me as a walking gentleman for his London theatre, where I made my first appearance as “Henry Morland,” in The Heir-at-Law, which, to avoid legal proceedings, he called The Lord’s Warming-pan.—Peter Paterson.

Morley (Mrs.), the name under which queen Anne corresponded with Mrs. Freeman (the duchess of Marlborough).

Morna, daughter of Cormac king of Ireland. She was in love with Câthba, youngest son of Torman. Duchômar, out of jealousy, slew his rival, and then asked Morna to be his bride. She replied, “Thou art dark to me, O Duchômar, and cruel is thine arm to Morna.” She then begged him for his sword, and when “he gave it to her she thrust it into his heart.” Duchômar fell, and begged the maid to pull out the sword that he might die, but when she did so he seized it from her and plunged it into her side. Whereupon Cuthullin said—

“Peace to the souls of the heroes! Their deeds were great in fight. Let them ride around me in clouds. Let them show their features of war. My soul shall then be firm in danger, mine arm like the thunder of heaven. But be thou on a moonbeam, O Morna! near the window of my rest, when my thoughts are at peace, when the din of arms is past.”—Ossian: Fingal, i.

Morna, wife of Combal and mother of Fingal. Her father was Thaddu, and her brother Clessammor.—Ossian.