MAST. | NATURAL HISTORY. 201 
Marmoset. 
TEMPEST, il. 2, 174. 
Huspanp is like your clog to your Marmoset. 
Ben Fonson’s “Poetaster,” iv. 2. 
V. Monkey. 
Martlet. 
The martlet 
Builds in the weather on the outward wall. 
Mercuant oF Venice, ii. 9, 28. 
v. Macsera, 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. Minshew’s Dictionary, 5.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. 
Tue 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].) 
Holinshea, “ Description of England,” p. 214. 
