Monster (The)

Renwick Williams, a wretch who used to prowl about London, wounding respectable women with a double-edged knife. He was convicted of several offences in July, 1790.

The green-eyed monster. Jealousy; so called by Shakespeare in Othello.

“Beware of Jealousy

It is a green-eyed monster that doth mock

The meat it feeds on.”

Act iii. 3.

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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.