res, Francis, recommends Shakespeare's 'sugred' sonnets, 89
his quotations from Horace and Ovid on the immortalising power of
verse, 116 _n_
attributes _Love's Labour's Won_ to Shakespeare, 162
testimony to the poet's reputation, 178 179 390

Mermaid Tavern, 177 178

_Merry Devill of Edmonton_, 181 258 _n_ 2

_Merry Wives of Windsor_: Latin phrases put into the mouth of Sir Hugh
Evans, 15
Sir Thomas Lucy caricatured in Justice Shallow, 29
lines from Marlowe sung by Sir Hugh Evans, 64 65
period of production, 171
publication of, 172
source of the plot, 172
chief characteristics, 173
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-325

Metre of Shakespeare's plays a rough guide to the chronology, 48-50
of Shakespeare's poems, 75-77
of Shakespeare's sonnets, 95 and _n_ 2

Mezieres, Alfred, 350

Michel, Francisque, translation by, 350

Middle Temple Hall, performance of _Twelfth Night_ at, 210

Middleton, Thomas, his allusion to Le Motte in _Blurt_, _Master
Constable_, 51 _n_
his plagiarisms of _Macbeth_ in _The Witch_, 240

_Midsummer Night's Dream_: references to the pageants at Kenilworth Park,
17 162
reference to Spenser's 'Teares of the Muses,' 80
date of production, 161
sources of the story, 162
the final scheme, 162
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-325

Milton, applies the epithet 'sweetest' to Shakespeare, 179 _n_
his epitaph on Shakespeare, 327

Minto, Professor, claims Chapman as Shakespeare's 'rival' poet, 135 _n_

Miranda, character of, 256

'Mirror of Martyrs,' 211

_Miseries of Enforced Marriage_, 243

'Monarcho, Fantasticall,' 51 _n_

Money, its purchasing power in the sixteenth century, 3 _n_ 3 197 _n_

Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth, 348

Montaigne, 'Essays' of, 85 _n_ 253 _n_

Montegut, Emile, translation by, 350

Montemayor, George de, 53

Montgomery, Philip Herbert, Earl of, 306 381 410

Monument to Shakespeare in Stratford Church, 276 286

Morley, Lord, 410 _n_

Moseley, Humphrey, publisher, 181 258

Moth, in _Love's Labour's Lost_, 51 _n_

Moulton, Dr. Richard G. 365

_Mucedorus_, a play by an unknown author, 72

_Much Ado about Nothing_: a jesting allusion to sonnetteering, 108
its publication, 207 208
date of composition, 208
the comic characters, 208
Italian origin of Hero and Claudio, 208
parts taken by William Kem