The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400): Canterbury Tales. Persones Tale.

Many a time and oft

In the Rialto you have rated me.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

So many, and so many, and such glee.

John Keats (1795-1821): Endymion. Book iv.

The enormous faith of many made for one.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle iii. Line 242.

The many still must labour for the one.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Corsair. Canto i. Stanza 8.

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,

Stains the white radiance of eternity.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Adonais. lii.

Each change of many-colour'd life he drew,

Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Prologue on the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre.

This many-headed monster.

Philip Massinger (1584-1640): The Roman Actor. Act iii. Sc. 2.

There still remains to mortify a wit

The many-headed monster of the pit.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 304.

Oh, many a shaft at random sent

Finds mark the archer little meant!

And many a word at random spoken

May soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Lord of the Isles. Canto v. Stanza 18.

Many-headed multitude.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Glance their many-twinkling feet.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): The Progress of Poesy. I. 3, Line 11.