, i. 17; ii. 53
(1470).

=Quiara and Mon'nema=, man and wife, the only persons who escaped the
ravages of the small-pox plague which carried off all the rest of the
Guara'ni race, in Paraguay. They left the fatal spot, settled in the
Mondai woods, had one son, Yer[=u]ti, and one daughter, Mooma; but
Qui[=a]ra was killed by a jag[)u]ar before the latter was
born.--Southey, _A Tale of Paraguay_ (1814). (See MONNEMA[TN-113] and
MOOMA.)

=Quick= (_Abel_), clerk to Surplus, the lawyer.--J. M. Morton, _A Regular
Fix_.

_Quick_ (_John_), called "The Retired Diocletian of Islington"
(1748-1831).

Little Quick, the retired Diocletian of Islington, with his squeak
like a Bart'lemew fiddle.--Charles Mathews.

=Quickly= (_Mistress_), servant-of-all-work, to Dr. Caius, a French
physician. She says, "I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and
drink, make the beds, and do all myself." She is the go-between of three
suitors for "sweet Anne Page," and with perfect disinterestedness wishes
all three to succeed, and does her best to forward the suit of all
three, "but speciously of Master Fenton."--Shakespeare, _Merry Wives of
Windsor_ (1601).

_Quickly_ (_Mistress Nell_), a hostess of a tavern in East-cheap,
frequented by Harry, prince of Wales, Sir John Falstaff, and all their
disreputable crew. In _Henry V._ Mistress Quickly is represented as
having married Pistol, the "lieutenant of Captain Sir John's army." All
three die before the end of the play. Her description of Sir John
Falstaff's death (_Henry V._ act ii. sc. 3) is very graphic and true to
nature. In 2 _Henry IV._ Mistress Quickly arrests Sir John for debt, but
immediately she hears of his commission is quite willing to dismiss the
bailiffs, and trust "the honey sweet" old knight again to any
amount.--Shakespeare, 1 and 2 _Henry IV._ and _Henry V._

=Quid= (_Mr._), the tobacconist, a relative of Mrs. Margaret Bertram.--Sir
W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.).

=Quid Rides=, the motto of Jacob Brandon, tobacco-broker, who lived at the
close of the eighteenth century. It was suggested by Harry Calendon of
Lloyd's coffee-house.

[Asterism] _Quid Rid[^e]s_ (Latin) means "Why do you laugh?" _Quid rides_,
_i.e._ "the tobacconist rides."

=Quidnunc= (_Abraham_), of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, an upholsterer by
trade, but bankrupt. His head "runs only on schemes for paying off the
National Debt, the balance of power, the affairs