Whence swelling on both sides in manner of an halfe globe and opening a wide partition of lands, with the armes of Propontis that stretch round about, it bedasheth on that side Cyricum and Dindyma, the religious and sacred tempics of the great dame and mother (Cybele.)

Holland. Ammianus, p. 196.

BE-DAW. See ADAW. To awake. No day them awaketh; they being always awake: on the

watch.

There is no daie whiche hem bedaweth,

No more the sonne than the moone,

When there is any thing to doone.-Gower. Con. A. b. v.

BE-DAUB. See BEDABBLE. To dip, (sc.) in mud or dirt, &c.

He changed was, that in Achilles spoyles came home before.

Or when among the ships of Greece the fires so fierce he fung:

But now in dust his beard bedawb'd, his haire with bloud is clung. Phaer. Æneidos, b. ii.

Great use there is and to good purpose, of the mud which these fountains do yeeld; but with this regard, that when the bodie is besmeared and bedawbed outwardly therewith, the same may drie upon it in the sun.

Holland. Plinie, b. xxxi. c. 6.

Nur. I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes, God sane the marke, here on his manly brest,

A pitteous coarse, a bloody piteous coarse :

Pale, pale as ashes, all bedawb'd in blood,

Ali in gure blood, I sounded at the sight.

Shakespeare. Romeo & Juliet, Act iii. sc. 2.

Is it worth the pains to devise plausible shifts, which shall instantly, we know, be detected and defeated; to bab foul designs with a fair varnish, which death will presently wipe off?-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 15.

The veriest clown who stumps along the streets,
And dos his hat to each grave cit he meets,
Some twelve months hence, bedaub'd with livery lace,
Shail thrust his saucy flambeau in your face.

Whitehead. Prol. to the School for Lovers. BE-DEAD, killed, destroyed, bereaved of life. Whereupon he [Epictetus] further adds, that there is a double mortification or petrification of the soul; the one, when it is stupified and besotted in its intellectuals; the her, when it is bedeaded in its morals, as to that pudor that naturally should belong to a man.

Cudworth Intellectual System, p. 193.

BE-DECK. To cover, to array, to dress.

For when dame nature first had framde hir heauenly face, And thoroughly bedecked it, with goodly gleames of grace. Gascoigne. In prayse of Lady Sandes.

When May is in his prime,

Then may each heart rejoice;
When May bedecks each branch with green
Each bird strains forth his voice.

Richard Edwards. Ellis, vol. ii.

My deeds at Rome, inricht me with renoune,
My talke abroad with proper filed phrase,
Adorn'd my head euen with a laurell crowne.
The emperour did much commend my waies,
So that I was bedeckt with double praise.

Mirror for Magistrates, p. 187.

Where rest my muse; till (jolly shepheards swaines)
Next morne, with pearles of dew bedecks our plaines,
We'll fold our flockes, then in fit time go on,
To tune mine caten pipe for Doridon.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. s. 2.

Sir Walter might, upon some great assemblies at court, hare his very shoes bedeek'd with precious stones, that exceeded the value of six thousand six hundred pieces of gold. Oldys. Life of Ralegh.

A very antient pit, called the Old Brine, was also held in Treat veneration, and till within these few years, was annuLy, on that festival, bedecked with boughs, flowers, and arlands, and was encircled by a jovial band of young people, rating the day with song and dance. Pennant. Journey from Chester.

BE-DEVIL. See DEVIL.
Recruited once more, I forgot all my pain,
And was jilted, and burnt, and bedevil'd again;
Sa petticoat fring'd, or the heel of a shoe,
Ever pass'd you by day-light, but at it I flew.

Moore. Song 1.

Up start my staring locks,
I lay for dead a space:

And what with bloud and brine I all bedewde the dreerie place.

Turberville. Pyndara's Aunswere.

And her faire face, faire bosome he bedeves
With teares, teares of remorse, of ruth, of sorrow.
As the pale rose her colour lost renewes,

With the fresh drops falne from the siluer morrow ;
So she reuiues, and cheekes impurpled shewes,
Moist with their owne teares, and with teares they
borrow. Fairfax. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. xx. s. 129.
And when dark night from her bedewy wings,
Drops sleepy silence to the eyes of all.

Brewer. Lingua, Act v. sc. 16.

For, neuer gentle knight, as he of late,
So tossed was in fortune's cruell freakes;
And all the while salt teares bedeaw'd the hearers cheaks.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 12.

Both nations shall, in Britaine's royall crowne,
Their diff'ring names the signs of faction drowne;
The siluer streames which from this spring increase,
Bedew all Christian hearts with drops of peace.
Beaumont. Bosworth Field.
What slender youth bedew'd with liquid odours,
Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave,
Pyrrha ?
Milton. Hor. Od. 5.
Thrice happy he! who, on the sunless side
Of a romantic mountain, forest crown'd,
Beneath the whole collected shade reclines:
Or in the gelid caverns, woodbine-wrought,
And fresh bedew'd with ever spouting streams,
Sits coolly calm.

Thomson. Summer.

Go, my boy, and if you fall, though distant, exposed, and unwept by those that love you, the most precious tears are those with which heaven bedews the unburied head of a soldier.-Goldsmith. Vicar of Wakefield.

BE-DIGHT. Bedecked, (qv.)
Whereas he sitting found, in secret shade,
An vncouth, salvage, and vnciuil wight,
Of griesly hew, and foule illfavour'd sight,
His face with smoake was tand, and eyes were bleard,
His head and beard with sout were ill bedight.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7.

For, all his armour was like saluage weed,
With woody moose bedight, and all his steed
With oaken leaues attrapt, that seemed fit
For saluage wight.

Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 4.

That Christian theefe (quoth he) that was so bold
To combat me in hard and single fight,
Shall wounded fall inglorious on the mold,
His locks with clods of bloud and dust bedight.
Fairfax. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. vii. s. 54.

I have a bower at Bucklesford-Bury,
Full daintilye bedight,

If thoult wend thither, my little Musgrave,
Thoust lig in mine armes all night.

Little Musgrave. Percy, vol. iii.

With sorrow for my guide, as there I stood,
A troope of men the most in armes bedight,
In tumult cluster'd 'bout both sides the flood.
Mirror for Magistrates, p. 270.

With me it fares now, as with him whose outward garment hath bin injur'd and ill-bedighted; for having no other shift, what help but to turn the inside outwards, especially if the lining be of the same, or, as it is sometimes, much better?-Milton. Apology for Smectymnuus.

BE-DIM. To dull, to darken, or make dim.

By whose ayde

(Weake masters though ye be) I haue bedymn'd
The noone-tide sun, call'd forth the mutenous windes,
And twixt the greene sea, and the azur'd vault
Set roaring warre.-Shakespeare. Tempest, Act v. sc. 1.
What dextrous thousands just within the goal
Of wild debauch direct their nightly course!
Perhaps no sickly qualms bedim their days,
No morning admonitions shock the head.
But, ah! what woes remain !

Armstrong. On Preserving Health, b. ii.

BE-DIRTY. To dirty, or daub; to cover, smear, or stain with mud or filth; to pollute.

How shall then a sinner be ashamed to see himself before the Lord of all, naked of good works, be-dirtied and defiled with abominable and horrid crimes?

Bp. Taylor. Cont. Of the State of Man, b. i. c. 9. BE-DIZEN. To dress too much, awkwardly, improperly.

Nor lightly deem, ye apes of modern race,
Ye cits that sore bedizen Nature's face,
Of the more manly structures here ye view;
They rose for greatness that ye never knew.
Langhorne. The Country Justice.
Well, now you're bedizen'd, I'll swear as ye pass,
I can scarcely help laughing-don't look in the glass.
Those tittering boys shall be whipt if they teaze you,
So come away, girls.- Whitehead. Venus attiring the Graces.

BE'DLAM, n. BE'DLAM, adj. BE'DLAMITE.

Id. The Moon-Calf.

It was a shrewd saying of the old monk, that two kind of prisons would serve for all offenders in the world, an Inquisition and a Bedlam. If any man should deny the being of a God, and the immortality of the soul, such a one should be put into the first of these, the Inquisition, as being a desperate heretic; but if any man should profess to believe these things, and yet allow himself in any known wickedness, such an one should be put into Bedlam.

Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 1.

With doleful chere, full fele in their complaint Cried Lady Venus, rewe vpon our sore Receiue our billes, with teares all be-dreint. Chaucer. The Court of Loue. BE-DRIBBLE. To drip or drop, slowly, in small quantities. See BESPAUL.

His fathers, like sepulchrall dogges, tore up the graves of God's saints and gnawed upon their dead bones; and now this whelpe of theirs, commingit cineres, bedribbles their ashes.-Hall. The Hon. of the Maried Clergie, s. 8.

BE'DRID. A. S. Ridan, insidere, incumbere. A. S. Bedreda. One so weak through sickness or old age, that he cannot rise from his bed. Bedred

(Somner.) Bedd-reise. A man fixed to his bed by continued sickness. Rise from Riesen, cadere, (Wachter.)

And a blynde man for a bordiour, othr a bed reden womman.-Piers Plouhman, p. 115.

For wele or wo she n'ill him not forsake:
She n'is not wery him to love and serve,
Though that he lie bedrede til that he sterve.

Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9166.

Why diddest thou, not onely heale him that was bedrid thirty-eight years, but also baddest him beare his bedde away vpon the Saboth day.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 237. When showres of teares from the celestial globe, Bewail'd the fate of sea-lov'd Britannie, When sighes as frequent were at various sights, When Hope lay bed-rid and all pleasures dying.

Browne. Elegy on Prince of Wales.

Man. Wilt thou then serve the Philistines with that gift Which was expressly giv'n thee to annoy them? Better at home lie bed-rid, not only idle, Inglorious, unimploy'd, with age out-worn. Milton. Samson Agonistes.

Fear not now the fever's fire,

Fear not now the death-bed groan,

Pangs that torture, pangs that tire,

And lyke as beis among the floures, whan fresh the sommer falles

In shyne of son applie their work, when growen is vp their yong;

Or when their hiues they gin to stop, and hony sweet is sprong,

That al their caues and cellars close with dulcet liquor filles : Some doth vnlade, some other brings the stuffe with ready

willes;

Sometime they ioine, and all at once do from their maungers fet

The slouthful drones, that would consume, and nought will do to get;

The worke it heates, the hony smelles of floures and time
ywet.
Phaer. Eneidos, b. i.

Thus to their toils, in early summer, run
The clust'ring bees, and labour in the sun;
Led forth, in colonies, their buzzing race,
Or work the liquid sweets, and thicken to a mass.
The busy nation flies from flow'r to flow'r,
And hoards, in curious cells, the golden store;
A chosen troop before the gate attends,

Bed-rid age with feeble moan.-Mason. Caractacus.

hang, to cover with drops.

And as men sene the dew bedroppe

The leues and the flowres eke:

Right so vpon hir white cheke

The wofull salte teres felle.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x.

(Not so thick swarm'd once the soil Bedropt with blood of Gorgon, or the Isle Ophiusa.) She [Lady Ralegh] has on a dark colour'd hanging-sleeve robe, tuffted on the arms; and under it, a close-bodied gown of white sattin, flower'd with black, with close sleeves down her wrist; has a rich ruby in her ear, bedrop'd with large pearls.-Oldys. Life of Ralegh.

The priest whose flattery bedropt the crown,
How hurt he you, he only stain'd the gown.

Pope. Imitation of Horace, Ep. 7. BE-DUCKED. To dip, to dive, to sink down.

The varlet saw, when to the flood he came,
How without stop or stay he fiercely lept,
And deepe himselfe beducked in the same,
That in the lake his lofty crest was steept,
Ne of his safety seemed care he kept.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 6.

BE-DUNG. Applied to that which is cast down, (sc.) after passing through the body of an animal.

And had still gone on to triumph over that trembling army, had not God's inexpected champion, by divine instinct, taken up the monster, and vanquisht him, leaving all but his head to bedung that earth, which had lately shaken at his terrour.-Bp. Hall. Resolutions, Dec. 1.

BE-DWARF. To be of small size, low stature; to stint the growth.

But 'tis not so: we're not retir'd, but damp'd,
And as our bodies, so our minds are cramp'd:
'Tis shrinking, not close weaving, that hath thus
In mind and body both bedwarfed us.

Donne. Anatomy of the World.

BE-DYE. To stain, to colour, to dip or steep.

Faire Goddesse lay that furious fit aside,
Till I of warres and bloudy Mars doe sing,
And Briton fields with Sarazin bloud bedide,
Twixt that great Faery Queene and Paynim King,
That with their horrour heauen and earth did ring.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 11.
And therewithall shee threw her garments lap aside,
Vnder the which a thousand things I saw with eies,
Both kniues, sharpe swords, poinadoes all bedide
With bloud, and poisons prest which she could well
deuise.
Mirror for Magistrates, p. 66.

BEECH. BEECHEN.

A. S. Boc, Bece; Dut. Bueche; Ger. Buche; Sw. Bok. There BE'ECHY. are not a few (says Ihre) who derive the northern word from the Gr. nyos, and Lat. Fagus, f being changed into b, as in a hundred instances: Pnyos, so called, anо тоυ paуew, to eat, because the mast-bearing tree supplied men with food in the earliest ages.

This false Chanon (the foule fend him fetch)
Out of his bosom teke a bechen cole,
In which full subtilly was made an hole.

Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,629.
But oft, when vnderneath the greene wood shade,
Her flocks lay hid from Phoebus scorching raies,
Vnto her knight she songs and sonnets made,
And them engrau'd in barke of beeche and baies.

Fairfax. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. vii. s. 19.
A beechen mast then, in a hollow base
They put, and hoisted; fixt it in his place
With cables. Chapman. Homer. Odysses, b. ii.
On earth's fair bed beneath some sacred shade,
Amidst his equal friends carelessly laid,

He sings thee. Bacchus, patron of the vine;
The beechen bowl foames with a flood of wine,
Not to the loss of reason, or of strength.--Cowley. Virgil.

The gentle shepherds on an hillock plac'd,
(Whose shady head a beechy garland crown'd,)
View'd all their flocks that on the pastures gaz'd:
Then down they sit while Thenot 'gan the round.
P. Fletcher. The Purple Island, c. 6.

I know not why the beech delights the glade,
With boughs extended, and a rounder shade;
Whilst towering firs in conic forms arise,
And with a pointed spear divide the skies.

Ara. Thou bitch-wolfes-sonne, canst yo not heare! Feele then.

Ther. The plague of Greece vpon thee thou Mungrell beef-witted lord.

Shakespeare. Troil. & Cres. Act ii. sc. 1

[I shall lay down a] conjecture (for the greater facility of ark] may bear, either to a beef, or a sheep, or a wolf; and the calculation) what proportion each of them (beasts in the then what kind of room may be allotted to the making of sufficient stalls for their reception. Wilkins. Real Character, pt. ii. c. 5

He, that of honour, wit, and mirth, partakes,
May be a fit companion o'er beef-steaks;
His name may be to future times enroll'd,
In Estcourt's book, whose gridiron's fram'd of gold.
King. Art of Cookery

On some, a priest succinct in amice white
Attends; all flesh is nothing in his sight!
Beeves, at his touch, at once to jelly turn,
And the huge boar is shrunk into an urn.

Pope. The Dunciad, b. iv

As these were dishes with which I was utterly unac quainted, I was desirous of eating only what I knew, and therefore begged to be helped from a piece of beef that lay on the side table: my request at once disconcerted the whole company.-Goldsmith. Citizen of the World, Let. 32.

BEER. Ger. and Dut. Bier. In A. S. Bere made of pears. is barley. Goldast thinks a pyris; beer being first Vossius, from the Lat. Bibere, Biber, and (extrito b) Bier. Somner, from Bar Heb. Frumentum. Noel (cited by Somner) says Beor is metheglin, or a kind of drink made with honey, whence it hath the name of Bee. Wachter quotes Luc. i. 15, "And he ne drineth win ne beor;" whence he infers that beer was made of any grain, or from honey or pears, &c.; and supposes the Welsh, Berwy, coquere, to be the parent of the word. Single beer and double beer seem applied to beers of different strength.

And eke their braines with double beere are lynde.

Gascoigne. Voyage into Hollande.

And then shypmen and other euyl disposid persones as then drewe to ye said Geffrey Gate, robbyd agayne the berehouses, and sette some of theym on fyre.-Fabyan. Edw.IV. an. 1469.

p.

354

Among those that were without the fort, and which were of the foresaid company of Captaine Ribault, there was a carpenter of three score yeeres olde, one a beere-brewer. Hackiuyt. Voyages, vol. iii. They shot off; but the French retired with diligence, and returned to Edinburgh without harme done, except the destruction of some drinking beere, which lay in the sands chappell and church.-Knox. Hist. of the Reformation, p. 90.

Flow, Welsted, flow! like thine inspirer, beer;
Though stale, not ripe: though thin, yet never clear;
So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull;
Heady, not strong; o'erflowing, though not full.

BEETLE, v.
BEETLE, n.

BEETLEBROWs.
BEETLEBROWED.

BEETLEHEADED.

Prior. Knowledge, b. i. When Emma hunts, in huntsman's habit drest, Henry on foot pursues the bounding beast, In his right hand his beechen pole he bears: And graceful at his side his horn he wears.

Heroes and their feats Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus, assembling, as he sang, The rustic throng beneath his fav'rite beech. Cowper. Task, b. iv. BEEF, n. Fr. Bouf; from the Lat. Bos, BEEF, adj. Bovis; the Gr. Bous, from Boew, (Bоoke) to feed. Applied to

The flesh of kine: formerly to the animal, as the plural, Beeves, still is.

Or yeve us of your braun, if ye have any,
Bacon or beef, or swiche thing as ye find.

Chaucer. The Sompnoures Tale, v. 7332. Befuys and motons were also dere for scantnesse of grasse and pasture.-Fabyan. Edw. III. an. 1353.

Han by the night accursed thieves
Slaine his lambs, or stolne his beeves.

Browne. The Shepherd's Pipe, Ecl. 3.

He was bytellbrowede and baberlupped. whit two ble eyen.-Piers Plouhman, p. 97.

Proude Jerusalem deserued not to haue this preeminen which, albeit she were in every dede as blynde as a bett yet thought herselfe to haue a perfect good syght, and that cause was more vncurable.-Udal. Mark, c. 1.

Fal. If I do, fillop me with a three man beetle. Shakespeare. 2 Part Hen. IV. Act i. sc Say not the people well, that fortune fauours fooles? So well they say, I thinke, which name her beetle blin Mirror for Magistrates, pe Hor. What if it tempt you toward the floud, my Lo Or to the dreadfull sonnet [summit] of the cliffe, That beetles o'er his base into the sea.

Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act i. s Giue me a case to put my visage in, A visor for a visor, what care I What curious eye doth quote deformitie: Here are the beetle-browes shall blush for me. Id. Romeo & Juliet, Act i. 1

Kate. Patience I pray you, 'twas a fault vnwilling.
Pt. A horson beetle-headed flap-ear'd knaue:
Uce Kate sit downe, I know you haue a stomacke.
Shakespeare. Taming of the Shrew, Act iv. sc. 1.

Whence borne on liquid wing,
The sounding culver shoots; or where the hawk
High in the beetling cliff his aery builds.

Oh! if I could, how I would maul

His tallow-face, and wainscot paws,

Ha beetle-brous, and eyes of wall,

Thomson. Spring.

And make him soon give up the cause.

Swift. The Dean at Sir Arthur Acheson's.

He John Evans] was the most perfect saturnine person that ever was beheld.-He was of a middle stature, broad chead, beetle-brow'd, thick shouldered, flat-nos'd, full lips, down look'd, of black curling stiff hair, and splay-footed. Wood. Athena Oxon.

Where the brow beetling from the mountain sprung,
With stunted thorn, and shaggy rocks o'erhung.
Brooke. The Fox-chase.

-Or when the stillness of the grey-ey'd eve,
Boka only by the beetle's drowsy hum,

lavites us forth to solitary vales,

Where awful ruins on their mossy roofs
Denote the flight of time.

Cooper. The Power of Harmony, b. ii.

Or where the beetle winds
His small but sullen horn,

As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path,
Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum.

Collins. Ode to Evening.
BE-FALL. A. S. Befeallan; Dut. Bevallen.
To fall, to happen, to become, to come to pass.
The keng made hymn joye ynow, & amon hem alle
Bed kym telle of som thing, that hym schulde bi falle.
R. Gloucester, p. 145.
Hare now of their schame, what chance bifelle.

R. Brunne, p. 123.
Ac on a May morwenyng. on Malverne hulles
Me by fel for to slepe. for weyrynesse of wandryng.
Piers Plouhman, p. 1.
And it fel that whanne Zacarye schould do the office of
prethod in the ardir of his cours to fore God.
Wiclif. Luke, c. 1.

Befelle, that, in that seson on a day,
In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay,
Redy to werden on my pilgrimage
To Canterbury with devoute corage.

Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 19.

In the meane season a bitter plague befelle among them for their corupt Buing, consuming in short tyme such a maltitude of people, that the quicke were not sufficient to bury the dead-Skowe. Brytaines & Saxons, an. 447.

I could say much more of the king's majesty, without fattery, did I not fear the imputation of presumption, and whal suspect, that it might befal these papers of mine though the loss were little) as it did the pictures of Queen Elizabeth, made by unskilful and common painters; which, by her own commandment, were knock'd in pieces and cast into the fire-Sir Walter Ralegh, Pref. p. 10.

Plate) lays it down as a principle, that whatever is percted to befal a just man, whether poverty, sickness, or any of those things which seem to be evils, shall either in life or death conduce to his good.-Spectator, No. 237.

As for myself, I am well, if to be well, can with any proty, be said of a man, who lives in the utmost suspense and anxiety, under the apprehension of all the accidents which can possibly befal the friend he most affectionately Te Farewell-Melmoth. Pliny, b. iii. Let. 17. BE-FIGHT. To combat, to contend, to battle. As wrastling windes, out of dispersed whirl, Befight themselves, the west with southern blast. Surrey. Virgile. Ænæis, b. ii.

BE-FIT. To adapt, to suit, to become.

So that it semes her will

Pay, phy, phy, phy, to sing,
Eace phy befytteth him so well,

For which, ere long, to his just trial led

BE-FLAINE. Having the skin flayed, stripped or torn off.

Out of his skin he was beflaine

All quicke: and in that wise slaine.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii. BE-FOAM. To foam, or froth; to throw forth or emit foam or froth.

His bristled back a trench impal'd appears,
And stands erected, like a field of spears.
Froth fills his chaps, he sends a grunting sound,
And part he churns, and part befoams the ground.
Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. viii.
At last the dropping wings, befoam'd all o'er,
With flaggy heaviness their master bore;

A rock he spy'd, whose humble head was low,
Bare at an ebb, but cover'd at a flow.-Eusden. Ib. b. v.

BE-FOOL. To be, or cause to be, a fool, or foolish; to delude into folly or error; to infatuate. And netheles full many wise

Befooled haue hem selfe er this.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii.
Debauch'd by those they thought would teach and rule 'em
Who now they find did ruin and befool 'em.
W. Browne to Lord General Monk.
Canst thou ingross a slavish shame, which men,
Far, far below the region of thy state,
Not more abhor, than study to revenge?
Thou an Italian? I could burst with rage,
To think I have a brother so befool'd.

Ford. Love's Sacrifice, Act iv. sc. 1.

Do but for a little realize to yourselves this, when the wise men of the world, those that are wise in their generation, shall appear before God, when they shall reflect upon all earthly objects, and consider the vanity and vexation of them, how will they befool themselves.

BE-FORE. BEFOREHAND.

BEFO'RETIME.

Bates. On the Fear of God, c. 2.

The imper. Be and the noun Fore. Written Bifore, byfore, beforne.

Anterior or prior to, in space or time; in front or presence of; in preference to. See AFORE.

Fyf hundred ger and tuenti it was eke bi fore,
Er than oure Lord Jhesu Cryst on erthe was y bore.
R. Gloucester, p. 40.

And ther geode byuore hym there
Four kyngs, and four suerdes of golde byuore hym bere.
Id. p. 190.

In Acres of hir is born a mayden childe dame Jone.
Was non fairer biforn of Inglis als scho one.
R. Brunne, p. 230.
That tyme in Scotland was a mayden geng,
As I red biforhand, Malcome douhter the kyng.-Id. p. 95.

And reson revested. rygt as a pope And conscience his crocer. byfore the kynge stande. Piers Plouhman, p. 81. Joie ye and be ye glade; for your meede is plenteous in hevenes; for so thei han pursued also prophetis that weren bifore you. Wiclif. Matthew, c. 5.

I loved hire firste, and tolde thee my wo
As to my conseil, and my brother sworne
To forther me, as I have told beforne.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1148.

The prophecie had geuen knowledge beforehande that Messias shoulde cum out of Bethleem, where Jesus was borne.-Udal. John, c. 7.

In all the robes befitting his degree,

Where Scroop, chief justice in that dang'rous stead, Commission had his lawful judge to be.

VOL L

Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. iv.

Lady, yee must openly you confesse,
And if against good concience and right,
Any good han ye take more or lesse,
Beforne this houre, of any manner wight,
Yeeld it anon.

Browne. Shepheard's Pipe, Ecl. 1.

Yet the fears of Herod over-ruled all the prejudices of his sect, and raised up before his eyes the semblance of the murdered Baptist armed with the power of miracles, for the very purpose (he perhaps, imagined) of inflicting exemplary vengeance upon him for that atrocious deed, as well as for his adultery, his incest, and all his other crimes. Porteus, vol. ii. Lect. 14. So far, therefore, from adapting the means, she [the hen] is not befor chand apprised of the effect. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 4. To happen, to betide, to

BE-FORTUNE.

bechance, to fall to the lot of.

Egl. Madam, I pitty much your grieuances, Which, since I know they vertuously are plac'd,

I giue consent to goe along with you,

Wreaking as little what betideth me

As much, I wish all good befortune you.

Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act iv. sc. 3. BE-FRE/CKLE. To freak; to spot, or colour with various spots.

As when the evening is with darkness overspread,
Her star befreckled face with clouds invelloped,
You oftentimes behold, the trembling lightning fly.

BE-FRIEND.

wisher to.

Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 22.

To act as a friend or well

To benefit, to aid, to serve.

This last request to you I do commend,
That pitying my sad plaints, you may befriend
My wretched soule with quicke dispatch in death,
And not with torture, when I yeeld my breath.

Mirror for Magistrates, p. 613.

The mercy of our good God allowes his favourites, not onely to receive but to give; not only to receive for themselves, but to convey blessings to others: what can that man want that is befriended of the faithfull? Bp. Hall. Cont. The Rapture of Elijah.

Yet mad they rush'd, as whirling wind descends,
And deem'd for friendless those the Lord befriends.
Parnel. The Gift of Poetry. Habakkuk.

Here he [Pliny the elder] stopped to consider whether he should return back; to which the pilot advising him, " Fortune," he said, " befriends the brave; steer to Pomponianus." Melmoth. Pliny, b. vi. Let. 16. To edge with fringe; to cut

BE-FRINGE.

or snip the edges.

And when I flatter, let my dirty leaves
(Like journals, odes, and such forgotten things
As Eusden, Philips, Settle writ of kings)
Clothe spice, line trunks, or, fluttering in a row,
Befringe the rails of Bedlam and Soho.

BEG, v. BEGGAR, V. BEGGAR, N. BEGGAR, adj. BE'GGING, n. BEGGARY. BEGGARING. BE'GGARLY, adj. BEGGARLY, ad. BEGGARLINESS. solicit, or entreat for.

Pope. Imitation of Horace, Ep. i. Some, says Junius, think Beg derived from the Ger. Begeren; Dut. Be-gheeren, cupere, appetere. Beg and Beggar, vel, q. d. Baggar, because beggars carry with them bags, into which they put the victuals or money that may be given to them. To ask, to crave, petition,

To beggar is to bring or reduce to the state of meanness, wretchedness, or poverty of one who asks, craves, petitions, &c.

For he that beggeth othr byddeth. bote yf thei have nede
He ys fals and faitour. and defraudeth the neede
And also gyleth hym that gyveth.-Piers Plouhman, p.150.

For hit blameth alle beggerye be ge ful certeyn.-Id. p. 155. Whanne he gede forth fro Jerico and hise disciplis and ful myche puple, Barthymeus a blynde man the sone of Thymey satt bisidis the waye and beggide.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 10.

And as he went oute of Hiericho with hys dyscyples, and a greate nombre of people: Barthimeus the sonne of Thimeus whiche was blynde, sate by the hye waies syde beggynge.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

For sikerly my dette shal be quit
Towardes you, how so that ever I fare
To gon a begging in my kirtle bare.

Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,882.

And she was clad full poorely,

All in an olde torne courtpy

As she were all with dogges torne,

And both behind and eke beforne

Clouted was she beggerly.—Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.

But of the body, whiche shall deye,

Allthough there be diuers weye

To deth, yet, is there but one ende,

To whiche that euery man shall wende,

As well the begger as the lorde,

Of one nature of one accorde.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.

Wee hauing nothing to do at all, haue medled yet in all matters, and haue spent for our prelats causes more then all Christendome, euen vnto the vtter beggering of our selues, & haue gotten nothing but rebuke and shame & hate among all nations.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 375.

By whose ayed ryches and auctorite the pope wt his prelates ascended from poore beggerly fryers and flaterers vnto siche an imperial maiestye aboue emprours and kinges. Joye. Expos. of Daniel, c. 7.

Amonge these things comes out of his ship the poore captaine Hamilco, in a filthy and beggerlye cloak girt aboute him, at the sight of whome the mourners as they stoode in rankes clustered about him.-Goldynge. Justine, fol. 92.

The Phariseis, beeyng made extreme woode with this courage and boldnes that the beggar was of, fal to extremitie, and to saye the vttermost they could. They vpbrayed him with his olde blindnesse, they cast him in the teeth with his beggerlynesse, as though God hadde punished him therewithall for his sinnes.-Udal. John, c. 9.

And the same sayth Innocent in on of his bookes: he sayth, that sorweful and mishappy is the condition of a poure begger, for if he axe not his mete, he dieth for hunger, and if he axe, he dieth for shame, and algates necessitee constreineth him to axe.-Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus.

So as their begging now them failed quite;

For none would giue, but all men would them wyte:
Yet would they take no paines to get their liuing,
But seeke some other way to gaine by giuing,
Much like to begging, but much better named;
For many beg, which are thereof ashamed.

Spenser. Mother Hubberds Tale.

And for as much as all good thinges come of God, whether they perteyne to the bodie, or to the soule, and at all times to be deliuered from aduersitie is one of his singular benefites, we may no doubt begge the same at his handes, referring notwithstanding the graunting of it to him, who knoweth what is better for vs than we do our selues.

Whitgifte. Defense, p. 492.

Trebellius obiecting to Cœlius, and charging him with factious behauiour, and dissoluing of discipline: Cœlius againe that Trebellius had spoiled and beggered the legions. Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 34.

And to what end is all this, but that seeing himself forsaken of all, he may at length, like the beggar'd prodigal, return again to his father?-Hopkins. Works, p. 14.

Some it highly displeaseth, that so great expenses this way [in building churches] are imployed. Touching God himselfe, hath hee any where reuealed, that it is his delight to dwell beggerly? and that he taketh no pleasure to be worshipped, sauing onely in poore cottages? Hooker. Eccles. Pol. b. v. s. 15.

But the strength of this argument lies partly in the ignorance of Zeno, that great champion of necessity, and the beggarliness of his cause, which admitted no defence but with a cudgell.-Bramhall. Ans. to Hobbes, p. 89.

-With half an eye

Your far-fetched sophistry I spy;
Which ne'er so subtlely disputed,
By two plain words shall be confuted:

I first aflirm you beg the question.

R. O. Cambridge. Learning.

The senate liked very well of this device, and chose such a number of bond-maids as she desired to have, and trimming them up in fine apparel, begawded with chains of gold and jewels, they sent them forth to the Latins, who were encamped not far from the city.-North. Plutarch, p. 127.

BE-GAY. To make gay; to begawd, (qv.)

The rural swain, whose courser eyes

Ne'r star'd on other beauteous things than what
Begay the simple fields.-Beaumont. Psyche, c. 3. § 75.
A. S. Begettan, Gettan.
To gain, to acquire, to reach,
to attain, to obtain, to procure,

BE-GET.
BEGETTER.
BEGETTING, n.

to produce, to generate.

Tho adde the Brutons the maystrye al bygyle.

A litelle ther biforn died Margarete, The heyr of Scotlond born, of Alisander bigete. R. Brunne, p. 248. Which delyueride us fro the power of derknessis, and translatide into the kingdom of the sone of his louyng in whom we han aghen biyng and remyssioun of synnes: which is the ymage of God unuysible, the first bigeten of ech creature.-Wiclif. Coloss. c. 1.

A yonge man called Melibeus, mighty and riche, begate upon his wif, that called was Prudence, a daughter which that called was Sophie.-Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus.

For what is he that canne by very imaginacto, comprise how that God the father, beyng without beginning, doeth continually beget God the sonne? into whom the begetter doeth so wholy powre out himself, that yet thereby he is nothyng diminished.-Udal. John, Pref.

This is but an imperfect generation, where that which is begotten doth not receive its whole being originally from that which did beget, but from God and nature; the begetter being but either a channel or an instrument and having been himself before begotten or produced by some other. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 587.

For it was not begotten from that as any way moved towards its generation: but it proceeded from God as it were self-begottengly.-Id. Ib. p. 574.

My walks of trees, all planted by my hand,
Like children of my own begelling stand.

Denham. Of Old Age.

Such is not man, who mixing better seed
With worse, begets a base degenerate breed:
The bad corrupts the good, and leaves behind
No trace of all the great begetter's mind.

Dryden. The Wife of Bath's Tale. Good laws may beget order and moderation in the government, where the manners and customs have instilled little humanity or justice into the tempers of men. Hume, pt. i. Ess. 3. BE-GILT. To cover or overlay with gold.

Six maids attending on her, attir'd with buckram bridelaces, beguilt: white sleves, and stammele petticotes, drest after the cleanliest countrey guise.

B. Jonson. The King's Entertainment at Welbeck.

BE-GIN, v. BEGIN, n. BEGINNER. BEGINNING. BEGINNINGLESS.

Be and gin. A. S. Aginnan, beginnan, ginnan, incipere, inchoare, aggredi, instituere; Ger. Beginnen, ginnen; Dut. Be-ghin-nen, Persuade a man that he is a beggar and a vagabond, and ghinnen; Sw. Begynna. The A. S. Beginnan, you shall instantly see him change his manners. Beattie. On Truth, pt. ii. c. 2. Junius thinks is evidently composed of be and gangan, gan, or gen; to go. And Ihre observes in confirmation, that the Lat. Initium is formed from inire, initum. Applied to

A mistake in which I had no share, decides at once upon my libertie and property, sending me from the court to a prison, and adjudging my family to beggary and famine.

Burke. Vindication of Nat. Society.

The poverty of the lower ranks of people in China far surpasses that of the most beggarly nations in Europe. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 8.

The first motion towards any act, purpose, or design. To take the first step, to make the first motion, to do the first act, to enter upon, to

commence.

& al for a wommon, That Elyne was y clepud, this bataile first bi gan. R. Gloucester, p. 10.

Heo gederede folk faste, the werre to bi gynne.-Id. p. 96.
Toward this lond heo oi gonne for to robby faste.-Id. p. 97.
That Eneas bigan hys of spyrng to Lumbardie first bring
Thre thousant & sixe & tuenti ger fro tho worlde's
bi gynnynge.-Id. p. 10.

For now bigynnes Dauid to wax a werreour,
With Leulyn gan he kith to be the kynge's traytour.

R. Brunne, p. 240.

For God that al by gan in gynnynge of the worlde
Ferde furst as a fust with o fynger. y folde to gederes
Til hym liked and luste. to unclose the fynger
And profrede hit forth as with the paume, to what place
it sholde.-Piers Plouhman, p. 327.

An hyne that had hys hyre ere he begonne.-Id. p. 74. Fro that tyme Jhesus bigan to preche and seie, do ye penaunce: for the kyngdom of hevenes schal come nigh. Wiclif. Matt. c. 4.

From yt time Jesus began to preach, and to say, repent, for the kyngdom of heauen is at hande.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

And thou Lord in the bigynnyng foundidist the erthe, and hevenes ben werkis of thin hondis.-Wiclif. Ebrewis, c. 1.

And thou Lorde in the beginnynge hast layd the foundacion of the earth. And the heuens are the worckes of thy handes.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Yet may the highe God, and so hope I,
Granten me grace to liven vertuously:
Than am I gentil, whan that I beginne
To liven vertuously, and weiven sinne.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6755
And though there be none other skille,
But onely for thei wolde winne,

Thei leaue nought, whan thei beginne
Upon their acte to procede.-Gower. Con. A. Prologue.
The mightie God, which unbegonne
Stont of hymselfe, and hath begonne

All other thinges at his will.-Gower. Con. A. b. viii.
Mindes he our tears? or euer moued his eyen?
Wept he for ruth? or pitied he our loue?
What shall I set before? or where begin?

Surrey. Virgile. Enais, b. iv

And lette hym not teache vs our lessō in a small ragge hande, wherein a yonge begynner can scant perceiue on letter from another, but lette hym teache vs in a fayre gre letter of some text hande, that is more easye to learne vpo Sir T. More. Workes, p. 57

Most noble virgine, that by fatall lore
Hast learn'd to loue, let no whit thee dismay
The hard begin, that meets thee in the dore
And with sharpe fits thy tender heart oppresseth sore.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c.

But to begin that which never was, whereof there was example, whereto there was no inclination, wherein the was no possibilitie of that which it should be, is prop onely to such power as thine, the infinite power of an infini Creator.-Bp. Hall. Cont. The Creation.

What can I see, O God, in thy creation, but miracles wonders? Thou madest something of nothing, and of th something, all things. Those which wast without a begi ning, gavest a beginning to time, and to the world in time Id.

The said Tanaquil was the first that made the coat cassocke woven right out, all through, such as new beginn (namely, young souldiours, barristers, and fresh brides)) on under white plaine gowns, without any guard of purp Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c.

It will, they presume, be soon enough to begin to-morr or next day, a month or a year hence when they shall f more commodious opportunity, or shall prove better dispo thereto; in the mean time with Solomon's sluggard. say they, a little sleep, and little slumber, a little foldin the hands.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 16.

supposition [to suppose an infinite succession of change

'Tis in reality, and in point of argument, the very s

and dependent beings produced one from another in en progression, without any original cause at all] as it w be to suppose one continued being, of beginningless endless duration, neither self-existent and necessar itself, nor having its existence founded in any self-exis cause, which is directly absurd and contradictory. Clarke. Demons. of the Attributes, pro

The sense of the word eternity has nothing to do that distinction, being but one, and importing neither nor less than beginningless and endless duration.

Waterland. Works, vol. ii. p.

Some writers upon art carry this point too far, and pose that such a body of universal and profound learni requisite, that the very enumeration of its kinds is en to frighten a beginner.—Sir J. Reynolds, Dis. 7.

BE-GNAW. A.S. Begnagan, rodere, corrore; to eat into; corrode.

The warme of conscience still begnaw thy soule,
The friends suspect for traytors while thou liu'st,
And take deep traytors for thy dearest friends.

Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act i. s. 3.

His horse hip'd with an old mothy saddle, besides, with the bots.-Id. T. of the Shrew, Act iii. sc. 2. BE-GODDED. Endowed as gods, with the rates of gods.

Tby degrees paganism came to be christened into a and name, by their setting up their Divi, or begodded , and prosecuting their apotheosis with divine -South, vol. v. Ser. 97.

BE-GONE. Gone far; sunk deep; (sc. in we or weal.) Also the imper. Be, and the past Fr. Ge; be it, that you are gone get you

I row that no wight might her plese

Nor do that thing that might her ese,

No she we would her sorow slake

Not sofort none vnto her take,

So deepe was her wo begonne

And eke her hert in angre ronne

On chief of sable (taken from the dame)

A sucking babe (oh !) borne to bide mischaunce,
Begoarde with bloud, and perced with a launce.
Gascoigne. The Fruites of Warre.
For, wall'd it was with waues, which rag'd and ror'd
As they the cliffe in peeces would haue cleft:
Besides, ten thousand monsters foule abhor'd
Did waite about it, gaping griesly, all begor'd.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 11.
BE-GRAVE. To carve or cut out, to dig, to

excavate.

A sorowful thing well semed she.-Chaucer. R. of the R.

That other said no thynge so,

But he is ryche and well bego,

To whome that god wol sende wele.-Gower. Con. A. b.v.

And witteth well, that one of the

Is with treasour so full begone,

That if ye happe therapon,

Ye shall be riche men for euer.-Id. Ib. b. v.

There was a kyng, which Lichomede

Was bote, and he was well begone,

With faire doughters many one,

As dwelt ferre out in an yle.-Id. Ib. b. v.

Whan be awoke, and neither he ne fond
Foman, ne cloth, he wept bitterly,

And said, "Alas! now there is in no lond
Ma worse I know begon than am I !"

And with great slight Of werkmenship it was begraue

Of suche worke, as it shulde haue.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.

Than at last came in there

His masons, for thei shulde craue,
Where that he wolde be begraue,
And of what stone his sepulture

Thei shulden make, and what sculpture.-Id. Ib. b. vii.

Whan thei to Rome come were,

So priuely thei dwelte there

As thei that thoughten to deceiue,

Was none, that might of hem perceiue,

Till thei in sondry stedes haue

Her golde vnder the erthe begraue

In two treasours, that to beholde

Thei shulde seme as thei were olde-Id. Ib. b. v.

BE-GREY, is used in Browne, as if equivalent to Malgre, (qv.) No other instance has oc

curred.

Browne. The Shepherd's Pipe, Ec. 1.

, I will not heare thy vain excuse,

So thou maist with thy past'rall minstrelsy
Beating the aire, atween resounding hils,
Draw to the bonibels as smirke, as hy,
And wrap them in thy love-begrey their wils.

Davies. To William Browne.

BE-GRIME. To make grim; to smear with any thing dirty or sooty, and thus give a grim appearance; a fierce aspect.

3 as thou lou'st thy life, make speed from hence. Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act iii. sc. i.

Certeful wretch, begone, and no longer pollute my

My name that was as fresh

As Dian's visage, is now begrim'd and blacke

As mine owne face.-Shakespeare. Othello, Act iii. sc. 3. Upon a vaine and foolish superstition, enjoyning men to begrime and bewray themselves with dirt, to lie and wallow in the mire.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 215.

with thy baseness: begone, and never let me see e: go from my doors, and the only punishment I A is an alarmed conscience, which will be a sufficient mester-Goldsmith. Vicar of Wakefield, c. 15.

Some there are,

Ryght as the gylour thorw gyle, by gylede man for mest
So shal grace that al by gan. make a good ende
And by gyle the gylour. Piers Plouhman, p. 348.

And that wicked folk wymmen betraieth,
And begileth hem of her good with glauerynge wordes.
Id. Crede.

This miller smiled at hir nicetee,
And thought, all this n' is don but for a wile.
They wenen that no man may hem begile.

Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 4044.
Wherfore I say, that swiche wicked delites ben subtil
begilers of hem that shul be dampned.
Id. The Persones Tale.

The knight was wroth to see his stroke beguil'd,
And smote againe with more outrageous might;
But back againe the sparkling steele recoil'd,
And left not any mark where it did light.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 11.
There pleading might you see grave Nestor stand,
As 't were, encouraging the Greeks to fight;
Making such sober action with his hand,
That it beguil'd attention, charm'd the sight.

Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrece.

By easy commutations of publick penance for a private pecuniary mulct [thou] dost at once beguilty thine own science with sordid bribery and embolden the adulterer to commit that sin again without fear, from which he hath once escaped without shame, or so much as valuable loss. Bp. Sanderson. Sermons, p. 275.

Such faces foule she [Alecto] shifts, so many mouthes she turning makes,

Whilst we smile to see how easily you beguile these silly

fishes that you catch so fast with this false bait, possibly we are not much less unwary ourselves; and the world's treacherous pleasures do little less delude me and you. Boyle. Occas. Reflections, Dis. 3.

So serpent-full she seemes, and ouer all begrowne with snakes. Phaer. Eneidos, b. vii. BE-GRUDGE. A very old, and in speech a very common word.

To grieve, fret, or repine (sub. at the good fortune of another.)

And alle that helpen me to erye. othr elles to weden
Shal have leve by oure Lorde. to go and glene after
And make hym murye thr myd. in angre ho by grutche.
Piers Plouhman, p. 131.
None will have cause to begrudge the beauty or height of
corner stones, when beholding them to beare a double de-

BE-GRACED. Endowed with the rank, gree of weight in the building.-Standard of Equality, § 25.

ssing the rank or title, of Grace or Lord. Then you are begrec'd and belorded, and crouched and Ceded to, then find I small grace with our Irish bor-Hollinated. Chronicles of Ireland, an. 1524. BE-GORED. Covered with gore, or slimy,

treated, addressed, as pos

witted blood,

While o'er his lips her lovely forehead bow'd, Won by his grateful eloquence, which sooth'd With sweet variety the tedious march, Beguiling time. Glover. Leonidas, b. viii. BE-HALF. For the part or share, or sake of any one.

And therfore I conseille, that ye sende oure messageres, swiche as ben discrete and wise, unto youre adversaries, telling hem on youre behalf, that if they wol trete of pees, and of accord, that they shape hem, withouten delay or tarying, to come unto us.-Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus.

Yet this I say in hir behalfe
If Helen were hir leeke,
Sir Paris neede not to disdaine
Hir through the seas to seeke.

Turberville. In prayse of Lady P.

Sir, quod Sir Willyam Helman, we are sent hyder fro the to thentet that we shulde shewe you on their behalfes, that sythe they come into this countre they haue had nother prest nor wages of you, ye whiche they desyre generally to haue.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 393.

Now for that he sheweth this spight of his against the

Boeotians and Corinthians especially, although he spareth not any others whatsoever, I thought it my part and duty to defend herein the honour of our ancestors in the behalf of truth, against this only part of his writings and no more. Holland. Plutarch, p. 1000.

To do in another's name implies doing (chiefly) for the interest or advantage of another; upon another's behalf or account; as the servants or factours of another.

Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 1.

Such evil sin hath wrought, and such a flame Kindled in heaven, that it burns down to earth, And, in a furious inquest that it makes On God's behalf, lays waste his fairest works. Cowper. Task, b. ii. BE-HANG. To append, to suspend, to place in a dependent position.

Harke in your eare, my bedde fresh and gaie

I haue behanged with lapettes new brought
From Egypt.
Chaucer. Remedie of Loue.
With fresshe thynges, and with glade
The noble towne was all behonged,
And euery wight was sore alonged

To see this lustie ladie ride.-Gower. Con. A. b. vi.

And so [the citizens] conueyed through the cytie, which then was garnysshed and behanged with tapettes and arras and other clothes of sylke and of richesse in moost goodly wyse, vnto Westmynster.-Fabyan. Edw. I. an. 1300. BE-HAPPEN. To fall to the lot of; to be