MOURNING BRIDE 
 
 
  Mouldy (Ralph), "a good-limbed fellow, 
young, strong, and of good friends." 
Ralph was pricked for a recruit in Sir John 
Falstaff's regiment. He promised Bar- 
do]ph forty shillings "to stand his friend." 
Sir John being told this, sent Mouldy 
home, and when Justice Shallow remon- 
strated, saying that Ralph "was the like- 
liest man of the lot," Falstaff replied, 
"Will you tell me, Master Shallow, how 
to choose a man ? Care I for the limb, the 
thews, the stature, bulk, and big assem- 
blance of a man? Give me the spirit, 
Master Shallow."- Shakespeare, 2 Henry 
IV. act iii. se. 2 (1598). 
 
  Moullahs, Mohammedan lawyers, from 
which are selected the judges. 
 
  Mountain (The), a name given in the 
French revolution to a faction which sat 
on the benches most elevated in the Hall 
of Assembly. The Girondins sat in the 
centre or lowest part of the hall, and were 
nicknamed the "plain." The "mountain" 
for a long time was the dominant part; it 
utterly overthrew the "plain" on August 
31, 1793, but was in turn overthrown at 
the fall of Robespierre (9 Thermidor ii. or 
July 27, 1794). 
 
  Mountain (The Old Man of the), the 
imaum Hassan ben Sabbah el Homari. 
The sheik Al Jebal was so called. He 
was the prince of the Assassins. 
  *** In Rymer's Foedera (vol. i.), Dr. 
Clarke, the editor, has added two letters 
of this sheik; but the doctor must be re- 
sponsible for their genuineness. 
 
  Mountain Brutus (The), William Tell 
(1282-1350). 
 
  Mountain of Flowers, the site of the 
palace of Violenta, the mother fairy who 
 
 
brought up the young princess afterwards 
metamorphosed into "The White Cat."- 
Comtesse D'Aunoy, Fairy Tales (" The 
White Cat," 1682). 
 
  Mountain of Miseries. Jupiter gave 
permission for all men to bring their 
grievances to a certain plain, and to ex- 
change them with any others that had 
been cast off. Fancy helped them; but 
though the heap was so enormous, not 
one single vice was to be found amongst 
the rubbish. Old women threw away their 
wrinkles, and young ones their mole-spots; 
some cast on the heap poverty; many 
their red noses and bad teeth; but no one 
his crimes. Now came the choice. A gal- 
ley-slave picked up gout, poverty picked 
up sickness, care picked up pain, snub 
noses picked up long ones, and so on. 
Soon all were bewailing the change they 
had made; and Jupiter sent Patience to 
tell them they might, if they liked, resume 
their old grievances again. Every one 
gladly accepted the permission, and Pa- 
tience helped them to take up their own 
bundle and bear it without murmuring.- 
Addison, The Spectator (1711, 1712, 1714). 
 
  Mourning. In Colman's Heir-at-Law 
(1796), every character is in mourning: 
the Dowlases as relatives of the deceased 
Lord Duberly; Henry Morland as heir of 
Lord Duberly; Steadfast as the chief 
friend of the family; Dr. Pangloss as a 
clergyman;   Caroline Dorner for her 
father recently buried; Zekiel and Cicely 
Homespun for the same reason; Kenrick 
for his deceased master.-James Smith, 
Memoirs (1840). 
 
  Mourning Bride (The), a drama by W. 
Congreve (1697). "The mourning bride" 
is Alme'ria, daughter of Manuel, king of 
Grana'da, and her husband was Alphonso, 
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