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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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