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Moon-man signifies in English a madman because the moon hath greatest domination, above any other planet, over the bodies of frantic persons… Their name they borrow from the moon because, as the moon is never in one shape two nights together but wanders up and down heaven like an antic, so these companions never tarry one day in a place.

Thomas Dekker’s Lanthorn and Candle Light, 1608 (from this “Forgotten English” calendar, June 15, by Jeffrey Kacirk)

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