Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Moon (usually fem., f. i. Sonn. 107, 5. Tp. II, 1, 183. II, 2, 143. V, 271. LLL V, 2, 214. Mids. I, 1, 4. II, 1, 103. III, 1, 203. III, 2, 53. Rom. II, 2, 109. Mcb. II, 1, 2. Oth. V, 2, 109. Neuter in Mids. III, 1, 56. Seemingly masc. in Mids. V, 255, but here the person is meant that represents the moon); 1) the satellite which revolves round the earth: Ven. 492. Lucr. 371. Lucr. 371 Sonn. 21, 6. LLL IV, 2, 39. IV, 3, 30. IV, 3, 30 V, 2, 203. V, 2, 203 Mids. I, 1, 9. III, 1, 52. III, 1, 52 IV, 1, 103. Merch. V, 1. Shr. IV, 5, 2 sq. Mcb. II, 1, 2. Ant. IV, 9, 7 etc. Plur. “--s:” John IV, 2, 182. R2 I, 3, 220. Lr. IV, 6, 70. “the full m.” H4B IV, 3, 57. Lr. IV, 6, 70. “the m. at full,” LLL V, 2, 214. “changing:” LLL V, 2, 212. Mids. V, 255. Shr. IV, 5, 20. Rom. II, 2, 110. “waning,” Mids. I, 1, 4. a new m. and “another m.” Mids. I, 1, 4 Mids. I, 1, 4 Hence image of change and inconstancy: Meas. III, 1, 25. LLL V, 2, 212. Rom. II, 2, 109. Lr. V, 3, 19. Oth. III, 3, 178. Ant. V, 2, 240. “'tis not that time of m. with me to make one in so skipping a dialogue,” Tw. I, 5, 213 (== I am not in that humour). Moving in a sphere: Tp. II, 1, 183. Mids. II, 1, 7. Having eclipses: Sonn. 107, 5. Mcb. IV, 1, 28. Lr. I, 2, 112. Oth. V, 2, 100. Ant. III, 13, 153. Governing the sea and causing ebb and flow: Tp. V, 270. Mids. II, 1, 103. Wint. I, 2, 427. H4A I, 2, 32. H4A I, 2, 32 Lr. V, 3, 19. “as true as plantage to the m.” Troil. III, 2, 184. Causing melancholy, and even madness: “O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,” Ant. IV, 9, 12. “she comes more nearer earth and makes men mad,” Oth. V, 2, 109. Conjured: Lr. II, 1, 41. Of a watery nature: Mids. II, 1, 162. III, 1, 203. R3 II, 2, 69. Rom. I, 4, 62. Peculiar theory: “the sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves the m. into salt tears,” Tim. IV, 3, 443. Behowled by wolves: Mids. V, 379. As V, 2, 119. Having horns: Mids. V, 243. Mcb. III, 5, 23. Cor. I, 1, 217. Ant. IV, 12, 45. The man in the m.: Tp. II, 1, 249. II, 2, 142. II, 2, 142 LLL V, 2, 215. Mids. V, 249. Mids. V, 249 Mids. V, 249 With a dog and a bush: Tp. II, 2, 144. To go by the m. == to be a night-walker: H4A I, 2, 15; cf. “the --'s men,” H4A I, 2, 15 Below, or beneath, or under the m. == on the earth, earthly: “his thinkings are below the m.” H8 III, 2, 134. “all simples that have virtue under the m.” Hml. IV, 7, 146. “for all beneath the m.” Lr. IV, 6, 26. “there is nothing left remarkable beneath the visiting m.” Ant. IV, 15, 68. Used to express the idea of extreme height: “the ship boring the m. with her main-mast,” Wint. III, 3, 93. “York that reaches at the m.” H6B III, 1, 158. “scarred the m. with splinters,” Cor. IV, 5, 115. “you are smelt above the m.” V, 1, 32. “I aim a mile beyond the m.” Tit. IV, 3, 65. “I had rather be a dog and bay the m.” Caes. IV, 3, 27. “M. and stars!” Ant. III, 13, 95.
2) a month: “each minute seems a m.” Pilgr. 207. “thirty dozen --s with borrowed sheen about the world have times twelve thirties been,” Hml. III, 2, 167. “till now some nine --s wasted,” Oth. I, 3, 84. “not many --s gone by,” Ant. III, 12, 6. “one twelve --s more she'll wear Diana's livery,” Per. II, 5, 10. “in twice six --s,” III Prol. 31.
3) Dian: “the m. sleeps with Endymion,” Merch. V, 109. “bemock the modest m.” Cor. I, 1, 261. “the m., were she earthly, no nobler,” II, 1, 108. “the noble sister of Publicola, the m. of Rome,” V, 3, 65. arise, fair sun, and kill the envious m., who is already sick and pale with grief that thou (Juliet) “her maid art far more fair than she,” Rom. II, 2, 4. Hence the moon cold and chaste: Mids. I, 1, 73. II, 1, 156. II, 1, 156 And sister of Phoebus: Mids. III, 2, 53.