Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Moon's Men

Thieves and highway-men who ply their trade by night.

“The fortune of us that are but Moon's-men doth ebb and flow like the sea.” —Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., i. 2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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