ake this intolerable plague off his hands. The trick being revealed,
Morose retires into private life, and leaves his nephew master of the
situation.--Ben Jonson, _The Silent Woman_ (1609).

("Wasp" in _Bartholomew Fair_, "Corbaccio" in _The Fox_, and "Ananias"
in _The Alchemist_.)

=Moroug=, the monkey mistaken for the devil. A woman of Cambalu died, and
Moroug, wishing to personate her, slipped into her bed, and dressed
himself in her night-clothes, while the body was carried to the
cemetery. When the funeral party returned, and began the usual
lamentations for the dead, pug stretched his night-capped head out of
the bed, and began moaning and grimacing most hideously. All the
mourners thought it was the devil, and scampered out as fast they could
run. The priests assembled, and resolved to exorcise Satan; but pug,
noting their terror, flew on the chief of the bonzes, and bit his nose
and ears most viciously. All the others fled in disorder; and when pug
had satisfied his humor, he escaped out of the window. After a while,
the bonzes returned, with a goodly company well armed, when the chief
bonze told them how he had fought with Satan, and prevailed against him.
So he was canonized, and made a saint in the calendar for ever.--T. S.
Gueulette, _Chinese Tales_ ("The Ape Moroug," 1723).

=Morrel= or =Morell=, a goat-herd, who invites Thomalin, a shepherd, to
come to the higher grounds, and leave the low-lying lands. He tells
Thomalin that many hills have been canonized, as St. Michael's Mount, St.
Bridget's Bower in Kent, and so on; then there was Mount Sinah and Mount
Parnass, where the Muses dwelt. Thomalin replies, "The lowlands are
safer, and hills are not for shepherds." He then illustrates his remark
by the tale of shepherd Algrind, who sat, like Morrel, on a hill, when an
eagle, taking his white head for a stone, let a shell-fish fall on it,
and cracked his skull.--Spenser, _Shepheardes Calendar_, vii.

[AEschylus was killed by a tortoise dropped on his head by an eagle].

(This is an allegory of the high and low church parties. Morel is an
anagram of Elmer or Aylmer, bishop of London, who "sat on a hill," and
was the leader of the high-church party. Algrind is Grindal, archbishop
of Canterbury, head of the low-church party, who in 1578 was
sequestrated for writing a letter to the queen on the subject of
puritanism. Thomalin represents the puritans. This could not have been
written before 1578, unless the