subs. phr. (old).—The multitude; the mob (SPENSER).
1606. The Return from Parnassus, v., 4 [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, ix. 211]. Ingenioso. Faith we are fully bent to be lords of misrule in the world’s wide heath: our voyage is to the Isle of Dogs, there where the BLATANT BEAST doth rule and reign, renting the credit of whom it please.
