"mack nor mell"
"I'll neither mack nor mell," I'll not interfere. Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.
-F.T. Dinsdale's Glossary of Provincial Words Used in Teesdale in the County of Durham, 1849
Today is the anniversary of the 1800 wedding of English surgeon and teacher John Abernathy. He prided himself on never allowing anything to interfere with his instructional duties, not even on the days he or his daughter (years later) got married. He even stopped on his way to make a house call because it was time to give his lecture.
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