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MIND.—My mind to me an empire is.
SOUTHWELL.-Look Home.

Man's mind a mirror is.

SOUTHWELL.-Look Home.

Queen. Thou talk'st as if thou wert a king.
K. Henry. Why, so I am in mind.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VI. Part III. Act III.
Scene 1.

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 254.

Behold yon pair in strict embraces join'd;
How like in manners, and how like in mind!

POPE.-The Dunciad, Book III. Line 179.

A mind diseased no remedy can physic-
Here the ship gave a lurch, and he grew sea-sick.
BYRON.-Don Juan, Canto II. Verse 19.

He that has treasures of his own
May leave the cottage or the throne,
May quit the globe, and dwell alone
Within his spacious mind.

Locke hath a soul wide as the sea,
Calm as the night, bright as the day,
There may his vast ideas play,

Nor feel a thought confin'd.

DR. WATTS.-Lyric Poems, To John Locke, Esq.
Verse 2.

When I view my spacious soul,
And survey myself a whole,

And enjoy myself alone,

I'm a kingdom of my own.

DR. WATTS.-Lyric Poems, True Riches.

The voyage of the mind.

COWLEY.-To Colonel Tuke.

In my mind's eye, Horatio.

SHAKSPERE.-Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2.

MINISTER.-Nature too unkind,

That made no medicine for a troubled mind!

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-Philaster, Act III.

Scene 1.

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MINISTER.-1. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd?
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;

Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,

Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon the heart?

2. Therein the patient

Must minister to himself.

1. Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act V. Scene 3.

MINSTREL.—The way was long, the wind was cold,
The minstrel was infirm and old;

His wither'd cheek, and tresses grey,

Seem'd to have known a better day.

WALTER SCOTT.-Introduction to the Last

Minstrel.

The last of all the bards was he

Who sung of Border chivalry.

WALTER SCOTT.-Ibid. Line 7.

MIRROR.-Who teach the mind its proper force to scan,
And hold the faithful mirror up to man.
LLOYD.-The Actor.

To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to shew virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2.

MIRTH.-From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth.

SHAKSPERE.-Much Ado about Nothing, Act III.
Scene 2.

I have of late (but, wherefore, I know not) lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercises.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2.

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

SHAKSPERE.-Pericles, Act II. Scene 3.

A merrier man,

Within the limit of becoming mirth,

I never spent an hour's talk withal.

SHAKSPERE.-Love's Labour's Lost, Act II.
Scene 1.

MISCHIEF.-To mourn a mischief that is past and gone,
Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act I. Scene 3.

MISER.-At length some pity warm'd the master's breast,
("Twas then his threshold first received a guest,)
Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care,
And half he welcomes in the shivering pair.
PARNELL.-The Hermit, Line 97.

MISERY.-Misery makes sport to mock itself.

SHAKSPERE.-King Richard II. Act II. Scene 1.

In misery's darkest cavern known,
His useful care was ever nigh;

Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan,

And lonely want retired to die.

DR. JOHNSON.-On the death of Mr. Robert
Levett, Verse 5.

Misery still delights to trace

Its semblance in another's case.

COWPER.-The Castaway, Verse 10.

'Tis misery enough to be reduc'd

To the low level of the common herd,

Who, born to beggary, envy all above them.

LILLO.-Fatal Curiosity, Act I. Scene 2.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

SHAKSPERE. The Tempest, Act. II. Scene 2.

When a few words will rescue misery out of her distress, I hate the man who can be a churl of them.

STERNE.-Sentimental Journey, Calais, Line 22.

Misery doth part

The flux of company; anon, a careless herd,
Full of the pasture, jumps along by him,

And never stays to greet him; "Ay," quoth Jaques,
Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;

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"Tis just the fashion: wherefore do you look

Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?"

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

MISFORTUNE.-Ill fortune seldom comes alone.
DRYDEN.-Cymon and Iphigenia.

One woe doth tread upon another's heel,

So fast they follow.

SHAKSPERE.-Hamlet, Act IV. Scene 7.

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MISFORTUNE-MODESTY.

MISFORTUNE.-When one is past, another care we have, Thus woe succeeds a woe; as wave a wave.

HERRICK.-Hesp. Aphorisms, No. 287.

One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.

SHAKSPERE.-Pericles, Act I. Scene 4.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act IV. Scene 5.

A wretch's life-broken on misfortune's wheel.
CAMPBELL.-Theodric.

One writ with me in sour misfortune's book.

SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act V. Scene 3.
(Romeo at the tomb, having just slain Paris.)

MIX.-Mix a short folly, that unbends the mind.
FRANCIS' Horace.-Book IV. Ode 12.

MOCK-MOCKING.-Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!
Confusion on thy banners wait,

Though, fann'd by conquest's crimson wing,

They mock the air with idle state.

GRAY.-The Bard, Line 1.

Mocking the air with colours idly spread.

SHAKSPERE.-King John, Act V. Scene 1.

MOCKERY, DELUSION, AND A SNARE.-If it is possible that such a practice as that which has taken place in the present instance should be allowed to pass without a remedy, trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, will be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare. LORD DENMAN, C. J.-11 Clarke and Finnelly, 351. O'Connell v. The Queen.

MOCKERY.-And bear about the mockery of woe,
To midnight dances, and the public show.

POPE. To the Memory of a Lady, Line 57.

MODESTY.-Come thou, whose thoughts as limpid spring

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 I. Line 53.

MODULATION.-"Tis not enough the voice be sound and

clear,

"Tis modulation that must charm the ear.

LLOYD.-The Actor.

MOLLIFY.

Now mince the sin,

And mollify damnation with a phrase.

DRYDEN.-The Spanish Friar, Act V. Scene 1.

MONA.-Once hid from those who search the main.
COLLINS.-Ode to Liberty, Line 82.

MONARCH.-Who would not brave the battle-fire-the

wreck

To move the monarch of her peopled deck?

BYRON.-The Corsair, Canto I. Stanza 3.

Monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

SCOTT.-Marmion, Canto V. Stanza 9.

I am monarch of all I survey,

My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea,

I am lord of the fowl and the brute.

COWPER.-Verses on Alexander Selkirk.

MONEY.-If at great things thou would'st arrive,
Get riches first, get health, and treasure heap,
Not difficult, if thou hearken to me:
Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand,
They whom I favour thrive in wealth amain,
While virtue, valour, wisdom, sit in want.

MILTON.-Par. Regained, Book II.

Go, make money. Put money in your purse.

SHAKSPERE.—Othello, Act I. Scene 3.

O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults,
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year!

SHAKSPERE.-Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III.
Scene 4.

He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.

SHAKSPERE.-As You Like it, Act III. Scene 2.

My friend, get money; get a large estate

By honest means; but get-at any rate.

FRANCIS' Horace.-Book I. Epi. I. Line 93.

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