f Japan_, vii. (1727).

=Mother Ann=, Ann Lee, the "spiritual mother" of the Shakers (1731-1784).

[Asterism] Mother Ann is regarded by the Shakers as the female form, and
Jesus as the male form, of the Messiah.

=Mother Bunch=, a celebrated ale-wife in Dekker's _Satiromaster_ (1602).

[Asterism] In 1604 was published _Pasquil's Jests, mixed with Mother
Bunch's Merriments_. In 1760 was published, in two parts, _Mother
Bunch's Closet Newly Broke Open, etc._, by a "Lover of Mirth and Hater
of Treason."

Mother Bunch's _Fairy Tales_ are known in every nursery.

=Mother Carey's Chickens.= The fish-fags of Paris in the first Great
Revolution were so called, because, like the "stormy petrel," whenever
they appeared in force in the streets of Paris, they always foreboded a
tumult or political storm.

=Mother Carey's Goose=, the great black petrel or gigantic fulmar of the
Pacific Ocean.

=Mother Douglas=, a noted crimp, who lived at the north-east corner of
Covent Garden. Her house was superbly furnished. She died 1761.

[Asterism] Foote introduces her in _The Minor_, as "Mrs. Cole" (1760);
and Hogarth in his picture called "The March to Finchley."

=Mother Goose=, in French _Contes de Ma M[`e]re l'Oye_, by Charles
Perrault (1697).

[Asterism] There are ten stories in this book, seven of which are from
the _Pentamerone_.

_Mother Goose_, according to a new exploded story, was a native of
Boston, and the author of the nursery rhymes that bear her name. She
used to sing her rhymes to her grandson, and Thomas Fleet, her
brother-in-law, published the first edition of these rhymes, entitled
_Songs for the Nursery_, or _Mother Goose's Melodies_, in 1719.

[Asterism] Dibdin wrote a pantomime entitled _Mother Goose_.

=Mother Hubbard=, an old lady, whose whole time and attention were taken
up by her dog, who was most willful; but the dame never lost her temper,
or forgot her politeness. After running about all day to supply Master
Doggie,

The dame made a curtsey, the dog made a bow;
The dame said, "Your servant!" the dog said, "Bow, wow!"

_A Nursery Tale in Rhyme._

=Mother Hubberd=, the supposed narrator of a tale called _The Fox and the
Ape_, related to the poet Spenser to beguile the weary hours of
sickness. Several persons told him tales, but

Amongst the rest a good old woman was
Hight Mother Hubberd, who did far surpass
The rest in honest mirth that seemed her well