MODERN.

To Mock. To pretend; to simulate; to feign.

I long till Edward fall by war's mischance,
For mocking marriage with a dame of France.
Henry 6, P. 3, iii. 3.
Being so frustrate, tell him, he mocks
The pauses that he makes.

Antony and Cleopatra, v. 1.

MODE. Form; method.
And now my death changes the mode.

Henry 4, P. 2, iv. 4.
MODEL. Mould; image; representative.
And nothing can we call our own but death,
And that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Richard 2, iii. 2.

O England!-model to thy inward greatness,
Like little body with a mighty heart!

Henry 5, i. Chorus.
And then all this thou see'st is but a clod
And model of confounded royalty. King John, v. 7.
Thou dost consent

In some large measure to thy father's death,
In that thou seest thy wretched brother die,
Who was the model of thy father's life.

Richard 2, i. 2.

Come, bring forth this counterfeit model.

All's well that ends well, iv. 3.
In which I have commended to his goodness
The model of our chaste loves, his young daughter.
Henry 8, iv. 2.

MODERN. Trite; common; ordinary.

And then the justice,

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances.

As you like it, ii. 7. Those that are in extremity of either are abominable fellows, and betray themselves to every modern censure worse than drunkards. Ibid. iv. 1. Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation.

King John, iii. 4. Her infinite cunning, with her modern grace, Subdu'd me to her rate.

All's well that ends well, v. Immoment toys, things of such dignity As we greet modern friends withal.

3.

Antony and Cleopatra, v. 2. They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless.

All's well that ends well, ii. 3.

Greater.

Richard 3, iii. 1.

But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt.

Comedy of Errors, ii. 2.

More reasons for this action

At our more leisure shall I render you.

Measure for Measure, i. 3.

To make a more requital to your love. K. John, ii. 1.
For where there is advantage to be ta'en,
Both more and less have given him the revolt.

Macbeth, v. 4. The more and less came in with cap and knee.

Henry 4, P. 1, iv. 3. And my more-having would be as a sauce To make me hunger more.

Moreover.

And more above, hath his solicitings,

Macbeth, iv. 3.

As they fell out by time, by means, and place, All given to mine ear.

MORISCO. A morris-dancer.

Hamlet, ii. 2.

And, in the end being rescu'd, I have seen
Him caper upright like a wild Morisco.

Henry 6, P. 2, iii. 1. MORT. A tune or flourish formerly played at the death or mort of the deer.

And then to sigh, as 'twere the mort o' the deer.
Winter's Tale, i. 2.

MORTAL. Deadly; fatal; heinous.

Come, you spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.

Macbeth, i. 5.

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MOTIVE.

MOTHER. The superior of a nunnery.

No longer staying but to give the mother Notice of my affair. Measure for Measure, i. 4. MOTION. Frame; body; puppet-show; puppet; proposal; impulse; notion; help; service; cogitation; mind.

This sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice.

Measure for Measure, iii. 1.
Then he compassed a motion of the Prodigal Son.
Winter's Tale, iv. 2.

O excellent motion! O exceeding puppet!
Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 1.

I have a motion much imports your good.

Yes, I agree, and thank

Measure for Measure, v. 1. you for your motion.

Henry 6, P. 3, iii. 3.
And of other motions, as promising her marriage,
and things which would derive me ill-will to speak
of.
All's well that ends well, v. 3.
Within this bosom never enter'd yet
The dreadful motion of a murderous thought.
King John, iv. 2.

Like a common and an outward man,
That the great figure of a council frames
By self-unable motion.

All's well that ends well, iii. 1.

Masters o' the people,

MOUNTANT. Raised; spread out.

Hold up, you sluts, your aprons mountant.

Timon of Athens, iv. 3.

Mow. A wry face; a grimace.

And those that would make mows at him while my father lived, give twenty, forty, fifty, a hundred ducats apiece for his picture in little.

For apes and monkeys,

Hamlet, ii. 2.

to cheat; to impose upon.

I'll mountebank their loves,

Cog their hearts from them, and come home belov'd

Of all the trades in Rome.

Cymbeline, i. 6.

Coriolanus, iii. 2.

Tempest, ii. 2.

MUCH. Great; exceeding.

Thanks, good friend Escalus, for thy much goodness. Measure for Measure, v. 1.