"Grant, I may ever love, and rather woo Those that would _mischief_ me, than those that do." --Shakespeare, _Timon of Athens_ (1609), iv. 3. MISERICORDIA, "put out the _i_ of Misericordia, and without an _i_ play e'en plain trussing corda" (R243,_d_); the pun survives to this day. MISERY, "harlotry, _misery_, treachery" (R263,_d_), miserliness, parsimony, coveteousness. "But Brutus, scorning his (Octavius Cæsar's) _misery_ and niggardliness, gave unto every band a number of wethers to sacrifice."--North, _Plutarch_ (1578), p. 215. MISH, MASH, see Driff, draff. MISWOMEN (IP320,_c_), a generic reproach: here = strumpets, wantons. "Fly the _miswoman_, least she thee deceiue." --Chaucer, _Remedy of Love_. MO (_passim_), more. MOME (_passim_), clown, buffoon, blockhead, fool. MOON, "made you believe the _moon_ was a green cheese" (R265,_c_), bamboozled or deceived you; the proverbialism is, in truth, of respectable antiquity: also _cream cheese_. MORROW, "on Sundays, _on the morrow_" (M31,_c_), in the morning. MOSELLING, "I fell down _moselling_" (JE363,_d_), original _moselynge_;? drunk (cf., muzzling, muzzy): the E.E.T.S. editors gloss _meselynge_ = diseaseful, from _measle_, but the context would bear my own "shot." "In _meselynge_ glotonye, with goode metis and drynkys trye, I norche my syster Lecherye" (_Castell of Persev._ [E.E.T.S.], 144, 2258). MOT, MOUGHT (_passim_), might. MOUNSIRE, "_Mounsire_ authority" (R197,_c_)--(also R224,_b_), an early corrupted form of "Monsieur": cf. modern _Mounseer_. MUMCHANCE (WH286,_a_), a game of hazard with cards or dice: see Nares. NAM, "_Nam hæc est mutatio, dexteræ Excelsi: vertit_ _impios, et non sunt_" (M36,_d_), see _Psalm_ lxxvii. 11, and _Prov._ xii. 7. NAMNOT, NAMMOT (R267,_d_), am not: the double negative, _ne am not_. NARSE (WS153,_b_), arse: the transference of the _n_ of the indefinite article, and a similar process in respect to the _n_ of "mine," "thine," etc. is not infrequent in _M.E._; cf. "naunt," "nuncle," "nam," "newt," "nickname," etc.