MARKET, "about our _market_ depart" (R207,_d_), here generic for business, affairs. MARY MASS (R202,_b_), a mass in honour of the Virgin Mary: specifically festivals held on Candlemas Day (2 February), the assumption (15 August), and the latter Marymass, the nativity of the Virgin (8 September). The asseveration was common in the sixteenth century; moreover, a covert allusion to the trouble of Queen Mary as regards the celebration of the mass in her late brother's time may be intended. MAS (_passim_), master: in Respublica _mace_. MASS, see Prime. MASSHIP, "I trow we shall his _masship_ trim" (R230,_d_), mastership. MAST, "_mast_ Wealth" (WH289,_d_), master. MATINS, see Prime. MEASURE, "_Measure is treasure_" (M12,_b_), proverbial. "Men wryte of oold how _mesour is tresour_."--Lydgate, _Min. Poems_ (Percy Soc.), 208 (_c._ 1430). MEDWALL (HENRY). Mr. T. Seccombe, writing in the _Dictionary of National Biography_, says he "flourished in 1486"; but beyond the fact that he was chaplain to John Morton (who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1486, and died in 1500), little is known of this early writer of interludes. The only work of his extant is _Nature_ (see pp. 43-133). Bale mentions another interlude not now extant, but ascribed to Medwall, "Of the Finding of Truth, carried away by Ignorance and Hypocrisy." This was diversified by the introduction of a fool, an innovation which commended it to Henry VIII. when it was produced before him at Richmond, Christmas 1516. Apart from this feature the piece was misliked, and the King "departyd before the end to hys chambre." MEEK, "Except that man himself do _meek_" (WH279,_b_), abase, humble. MELL, "not suffer to _mell_" (R213,_a_)--"with such-high matters to _mell_" (R235,_b_),--"will not _mell_" (R250,_b_), meddle. MEMBER, "I scannot _member_ his name" (R212,_d_),--"to _member_ in my heart" (R234,_d_), remember: in original _membre_. MEMENTO, "_Memento_, _homo_," etc. (M15,_b_): see _Job_ xxxiv. 15. MENGE, "I shall _menge_ his corn" (M24,_a_), mix, or? scatter. "The busy bee, her honey now she _mings_." --Surrey, _Songs and Sonnets_ (1557), Description of Spring. MERCHANT, "prattling _merchant_" (_passim_), fellow, chap: frequently in depreciation. MERE, "be used _mere_" (WS174,_a_), simply, solely, "single-eyed," unquestionably, downright. "This is _mere_ falsehood." --Shakespeare, _Winter's Tale_ (1604), iii. 2. MET, "I hope to have his foot _met_" (M23,_d_), caught. MICH, "cost him even as _mich_" (N67,_c_), much. "Alle the _myche_ tresour that traytour had wonnene To commons of the contré, clergye and other." --_Morte Arthure_, _MS. Lincoln_, f. 66. MISCHIEVE, "herself to _mischieve_" (IP313,_d_), harm, injure.