Metheg

• Metheg: (Hebrew) bridle; a form of Hebrew punctuation

• 2 Samuel 8:1: "David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines". Assumed to be a place name.

• metheglin: spiced mead

• method in his madness: from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act II scene 2, Polonius: "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't

• metheg in your midness: i.e., 1) spiced mead in your belly, 2) a bridle (restraint) on your nether regions

• midness: neutrality?, mediocrity?