Marian, vulgar form of Mary or Maria: Tp. II, 2, 50. Err. III, 1, 31. LLL V, 2, 934. Shr. Ind. 2, 22. Tw. II, 3, 14. Maid M., a personage in the morris dances, often a man dressed like a woman, and sometimes a strumpet: “for womanhood, Maid M. may be the deputy's wife of the ward to thee,” H4A III, 3, 129.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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