Fenton.—Epi. to Lambard.
Evil habits soil a fine dress more than mud; good manners, by their deeds, easily set off a lowly garb.
Riley’s Plautus, The Pœnulus, Act I. Scene 2; The Mostellaria, Act I. Scene 3.
MANTLE.—The prophet’s mantle, ere his flight began,
Dropt on the world—a sacred gift to man.
Campbell.—Pleasures of Hope, Part I.
And Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
1 Kings, Chap. XIX. Verse 19.
MANY.—Many a time and oft.
Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 1. (Marcellus to the Citizens.)
MARCH.—Beware the ides of March.
Shakespeare.—Ibid. Act I. Scene 2. (Soothsayer to Cæsar.)
Remember March, the ides of March remember!
Shakespeare.—Ibid. Act IV. Scene 3. (Brutus to Cassius.)
I’ll not march through Coventry with them, that’s flat.
Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act IV. Scene 2. (Falstaff to Bardolph.)
MARE.—Unless you yield for better or for worse:
Then the she-Pegasus shall gain the course;
And the
grey mare will prove the better horse.
Prior.—Epil. to Lucius.
Then all shall be set right, and the man shall have his mare again.
Dryden.—Love Triumphant, Act III. Scene 2.
MARE.—The man shall have his mare again.
Shakespeare.—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III. Scene 2. (Puck.)