MAST.] NATURAL HISTORY. 201 



Marmoset. 



TEMPEST, ii. 2, 174. 



HUSBAND is like your clog to your Marmoset. 



Ben Jonsons " Poetaster," iv. 2. 



V. Monkey. 

 Martlet. 



The martlet 

 Builds in the weather on the outward wall. 



MERCHANT OF VENICE, ii. 9, 28. 



v. MACBETH, i. 6, 3-10. 



MARTINETS, Martins, Martlets. - - These birds are so 

 called because they come to us about the end of the month 

 of March from warm regions, and depart before the feast 

 of St. Martin. MinsMs Dictionary, s.v. 



MARTINS are good to eat. 



Batman's addition to Bartholomew, bk. xii. 21. 



V. Swallow. 

 Mary-bud. 



CYMBELINE, ii. 3, 25. 



V. Marigold. 

 Mast. 



The oaks bear mast. 



TIMON OF ATHENS, iv. 3, 422. 



THE oak bringeth forth a profitable kind of Mast, 

 whereby such as dwell near unto the aforesaid places do 

 cherish and bring up innumerable herds of swine. [Red 

 and fallow deer eat Mast also] ; yea, our common poultry 

 if they may come unto them ; but those eggs which these 

 latter do bring forth (beside blackness in colour and bitter- 

 ness of taste) have not seldom been found to breed divers 

 diseases unto such persons as have eaten of the same. 

 (The like have I seen where hens do feed upon the tender 

 blades of garlick [marginal note].) 



Holinskea, "Description of England," p. 214. 



