_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.--G. 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 in 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 war is past.”--Ossian, _Fingal_, i. _Morna_, wife of Compal, and mother of Fingal. Her father was Thaddu, and her brother Clessammor.--Ossian. =Mornay=, the old seneschal, at Earl Herbert’s tower at Peronne.--Sir W. Scott, _Quentin Durward_ (time, Edward IV.). =Morning Star of the Reformation=, John Wycliffe (1324-1384). =Morocco= or MAROCCUS, the performing horse, generally called “Bankes’s Horse.” Among other exploits, we are told that “it went up to the top of St. Paul’s.” Both horse and man were burnt alive at Rome, by order of the pope, as magicians.--Don Zara del Fogo, 114 (1660). ⁂ Among the entries at Stationers’ Hall is the following:--_Nov. 14, 1595: A Ballad showing the Strange Qualities of a Young Nagg called Morocco._ In 1595 was published the pamphlet _Maroccus Extaticus_, or _Bankes’s Horse in a Trance_. =Morocco Men=, agents of lottery assurances. In 1796, The great State lottery employed 7500 morocco men. Their business was to go from house to house among the customers of the assurances, or to attend in the back parlors of public-houses, where the customers came to meet them. =Morolt= (_Dennis_), the old squire of Sir Raymond Berenger.--Sir W. Scott, _The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.).