Such mistress, such Nan;
Such master, such man.
Tusser, xxxviii. 22.
Again:
Such master, such man; and such mistress, such maid;
Such husband and huswife; such houses arraid.
T. Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, xxxix. 22 (1557).
Master Matthew, a town gull.—Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humor (1598).
Master Stephen, a country gull of melancholy humor. (See [Master Matthew]).—Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humor (1598).
Master of Sentences, Pierre Lombard, author of a book called Sentences (1100-1164).
Masters (Doctor), physician to Queen Elizabeth.—Sir W. Scott, Kenilworth (time, Elizabeth).
Masters (The Four): (1) Michael O’Clerighe (or Clery), who died 1643; (2) Cucoirighe O’Clerighe; (3) Maurice Conry; (4) Fearfeafa Conry; authors of Annals of Donegal.
Mat Mizen, mate of H.M. ship Tiger. The type of a daring, reckless, dare-devil English sailor. His adventures with Harry Clifton, in Delhi, form the main incidents of Barrymore’s melodrama, El Hyder, Chief of the Ghaut Mountains.
Mat-o’-the Mint, a highwayman in Captain Macheath’s gang. Peachum says, “He is a promising, sturdy fellow, and diligent in his way. Somewhat too bold and hasty; one that may raise good contributions on the public if he does not cut himself short by murder.”—Gay, The Beggar’s Opera, i. (1727).