up and down the market when it was fulleft-a circumftance which fuits very well with the rest of his character.--Market-dachar, circumforaneus, Prompt.

Parv.

Markis, n. Fr. a marquis, 7940.

Markis, for markifes, gen. ca. fing. 8870: in the fame
manner Peneus is put for Peneufes, 2066; Thefeus
for Thefeufes, 2201, 2697; Venus for Venuses, 2274,
10586; Ceres for Cerefes, 10139; Melibeus for Me-
libeufes, 13902, and in profe, M. 311, l. 21, 2: per-
haps it might have been proper to add a mark of
apocope to the words fo abbreviated. As to the pre-
fent methodof expreffing the genitive cafes of nouns
ending in s by adding another's with a mark of fyn-
cope, as Peneus's, Thefeus's, Venus's, c. it feems
abfurd, whether the addition be intended to be pro-
nounced or not. In the first cafe thee fhould not be
cut out; in the fecond the s is quite fuperfluous.
But the abfurdity of this practice is most striking
when the genitives of monofyllable nouns are thus
written, an ox's horns, an ass's ears, a fifb's tail, St.
James's park; notwithstanding that the
e, which
is thus directed to be cut out, is conftantly and ne-
ceffarily to be pronounced, as if the feveral words
were written at length, oxes, affes, fifbes, Famefes.
Markiffe, n. Fr. the wife of a marquis, 8159, 8270.
Marte, pr. n. Mars, 2023.

Martire, n. Fr. martyrdom, torment, R. 2547.
Martire, v. Fr. to torment, 1564.

Mary, Marie, pr, n. a vulgar oath; by Mary, 13322, 165 30.

Mafe, n. a wild fancy, 15099; T. v. 468.

Mafe, v. neut. to doubt, to be confounded, 10261.
Mafeineffe, n. aftonishment, confufion, 8937-
Ali, n. rather mazerin, 13781, a drinking-cup.
Du Cange in v. Mazer.

Mate, part. pa. of mate, v. Fr. dejected, struck dead, 957; R. 1739; fo feble and mate, Conf. Am. 127, b. Matire, for matere, n. Fr. matter, T. iv. 818. Maugre, malgre, Fr. in fpite of; maugre, all thy might, 1609; maugre, thin eyen, 5897; maugre hire hed, 6469, P. 261. -The original of this expreflion appears more plainly in the following paffages, I drede thou canft me grete maugre, R. 4399;

Car je cuide, que me fcavez

Mal gré.

Orig. 4118.

Malgre his, R. 2386, 5933, with his ill will, against his will; mal gré lui.

Mavis, n. Sax. a thrush, R. 619.

Mavis, R. 5590, is probably a mistake for muis, n. pl. Fr. the orig. has cent muys de froment, 5197: the Paris muid contains fomething more than five quarters English.

Maumet, n. an idol, P. 228.

Maumetrie, n. the religion of Mahomet, 4656-idolatry, P. 228.

Mare, n. Sax. the ftomach, 12930.

Maximian, pr. n. C. L. 798, the author of fix elegies which have been frequently printed under the name of Gallus: he is faid by Fabricius [Bibl. Lat. t. i. p. 297, ed. Patav.] to have lived under the Emperour Anaftafius, q. 1. or II.? A tranflation or rather abridgement of thefe elegies in English verfe is in mf. Harl. 2253.

May, v. Sax. to be able, physically, 2314, 3045,8; morally, 739, 2355, 6. See More.

May, n. Sax. a virgin, 5271; of Mary, moder and may, P. L. 235, 307-a young woman, T. v. 1719. Maydenhed, n. Sax. virginity, 2331.

Meaneliche, adj. Sax. moderate, Bo. i. pr. 6; mediocribus, orig.

Mebles, n. pl. Fr. moveable goods, 9188, 16008.
Mede, n. Sax. reward, 3380; P.235-a meadow, 89.
Mede, methe, meth, n, barb. Lat. mead, a liquor made
of honey, 2281, 3378, 3261.
Medle, v. Fr. to mix. P. 146.

Medlee, adj. of a mixed stuff or colour, 330.
Meinie, n. Fr. household attendants, 7627, 7738-
an army, 14348,17177.--Hurlewaynes meyne. Cont.
of Cant. T. 1. 8; this obfcure phrafe, I think, may
be understood to relate to a particular fet of ghoftly
apparitions which were used to run about the coun-
try at night, and were called in French La mefgnie de
Hellequin or Herlequin. The fulleft account that I
have feen of them is in L'hiftoire de Richard fans paoux,
Duc de Normandie, qui fut fils de Robert le Diable. In
one of his rides he meets with three black knights
whom he engages; "Etquand les Chevaliers veirent

le ju mal party pour eux ils monterent a chevalet "s'enfayrent--et Richard--chevaucha apres eux; "et ainfi qu'il chevauchoit il apperceut une dance de gens noirs qui s'entretenoyent. Adonc luy fou "vint de la mesgnie de Hellequin, dont il avoit autres foys ouy parler." The title of the next chapter (4.) is Cy divife de la mefgnie de Hellequin et qui il efloit. He is there faid to have been a knight who, having fpent all his fubftance in the wars of Charles Martel against the Saracens, lived afterwards by pillage. "Adoncil avint qu'il mourut et fut en danger d'ef "tre damne, mais Dieu luy fit pardon, pource que il "avoit bataille contre les Sarrazins etexaulce la foy. "Si fut condamne de Dieu que pour un tems deter "mine luy et ceux de fon lignage feroient penitence "et yroient toute la nuit parmy la terre, pour leurs "penitences faire et endurer plufieurs maux et ca"lamitez." The belief of fuch apparitions was certainly of great antiquity in Normandy, as they are

mentioned by Ordericus Vitalis under the title of familia Herlechini, in a moft extraordinary ftory related by him, 1. viii. p. 695, ann. 1091; and I fufpect that in a paffage quoted by Du Cange in v. Herlinini, from Petr. Blefens, ep. 14, we fhould read Herlikini instead of Herlinini,--Gervafe of Tilbery, who wrote in 1211, mentions another fet of apparitions which were called familia Arturi. Ot. Imper. Dec. ii. c. 12; “In fylvis Brittanniæ majoris aut mi"noris confimilia contigifle referuntur, narrantibus

nemorum cuftodibus, quos foreftarios--vulgus no“minat, sealternis diebus circa horam meridianam, "et in primo noctium conticinio fub plenilunio lu"nâ lucente, fæpiffime videre militum copiam ve"nantium et canum et cornuum ftrepitum, qui fcif"citantibus fe de focietate et familiâ Arturi effe affir"mant." He had just faid that Arthur, not long before, had been feen in a palace, miro opere conftructo, in a most delicious valley in the neighbourhood of Mount Etna, where he had refided ever fince the time of his fuppofed death, vulneribus quotannis recrudefcentibus.

Meint, part. pa. of menge, v. Sax. mixed, mingled, R. 2296.

Meke, adj. Sax. meek, humble, 8017.

Meke, v. to become meek, R. 3541, 3584.

Meles, n. pl. Sax. meals, dinners, &c. Du. 612.
Mele-tide, n. Sax. dinnertime, T. ii. 1556.

Melle, v. Fr. to meddle, C. D. 536.

Melle, n. for mille, 3921.

Memorie, n. Fr. remembrance; to be drawen to memo

rie, 3114, to be recorded;

And for to drawe in to memorye
Her names bothe and her hiftorye.

Memorie, v. to remember, 10118.

Conf. Am. f. 76.

Mendiants, n. pl. Fr. friars of the begging orders,7488.

See the note.

Mene, v. Sax. to mean, to intend, 2065, 2218. Mene, n. Fr. moyen, a mean or inftrument, 9545; T. iii. 255, where the orig. has mezzano, a procurer. Menes, pl. 7064, 3375.

Mene, adj. middle, 7027, 17322. But fee the note on the latter ver.

Menivere, n. Fr. a fort of fur, R. 227. See the n. on ver. 193.

Mercenrike, pr. n. the kingdom of Mercia, 15118. Marcia, pr. n. F. iii. 139; Marfyas is probably meant, but our poet, I know not upon what authority, has turned him into a female.

Merciable, adj. Fr. merciful, 13618.

Meritorie, adj. Fr. meritorious, P. 240..

Merke, n. Sax. a mark, an image, 11192; all the merke of Adam, 6278, all the images of Adam, all mankind.

Merke, adj. Sax. dark, R. 5339.

Merlion, n. Fr.emerillon, a merlin, a fort of hawk, A.F. 339.

Mervaille, n. Fr. wonder, marvel, 10974,

Mery, adj. Sax. merry, 804-pleasant, 14972. Mes, R. 3462; at gode mes, fhould probably be at godenefs; the orig. has en bon point. See Godeness.

Mefe,n. for meffe, C. D. 2116.

Mefel, n. Fr. a leper, P. 211.

Mefelrie, n. Fr. leprofy, P. 211.

Meffage, n. Fr. a meffenger, 8614, 8823.

Meffagerie, pr. n. a fictitious attendant in the temple

of Venus, A. F. 228; Boccace calls her Ruffiania, Thefeida, b. vii.

Meffe, n. Fr. the service of the mass, 9768.

Mefle, adj. Sax. fuperl. d. 8006, as mofte.