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But why haue yee, said Arthegall, forborne

Your owne good shield in dangerous dismay; That is the greatest shame and foulest scorne, Which vnto any knight behappen may, To lose the badge, that should his deeds display. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 11.

BE-HATED. The A. S. Hatian, means to heat, to be hot; whence, Junius thinks, is deduced the metaphorical application to hatred, rancour, malice; and observes, that of similar origin are the verbs, to be incensed, incendi; to be inflamed, inflammari.

Algates yet therof he hatefull to all folke, that is to say that all was he behated of all folkes, yet this wicked Nero had great lordship.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. iii.

Therefore wol I shewe you how ye shuln behave you in gadering of youre richesses, and in what manere ye shuln usen hem.-Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus.

After that he describeth the outward conuersation of Christen men, how they ought to behaue themselues in spirituall thinges, how to teach, preach and rule in the cōgregation of Christ, to serue one another, to suffer all things patiently, and to commit wreake and vengeaunce to God; in conclusion how a Christen ma ought to behaue himselfe vnto all men to frend, foe, or whatsoeuer he be.

Tyndall. Workes, p. 49.

John taught vs this lesso, that a preacher of Goddes word shoulde not get himselfe estimacion and auctoritie, by gorgeous apparell, or popouse liuing, but by honest behaviour, and Godly conuersació.-Udal. Mark, c. 1.

Then he [Henry VIII.] put of his bonnet & came foreward to her, & with most louely countenauce and princely behauyour saluted, welcomed & embrased her to the great reioysyng of the beholders.-Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 31.

Than they put in wrytynge all the dedis of the kyng who was in prison, and all that he hadde done by euyll counsell, and all his vsages, and euyll behauynges, and how euyll he had gouerned his realme, that which was redde openly in playn audience.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 14.

I persuaded myself, that chiefly & immediatly you do it, to thintent to vnderstande the better, howe that you shall behaue yourselfe, in rulyng & gouernaunce of your realme. Nichols. Thucydides, p. 7.

Whoso in pompe of proud estate (quoth shee)
Does swime, and bathes himselfe in courtly blisse,
Does waste his daies in darke obscuritiee,
And in obliuion euer buried is:

Where ease abounds, it's eath to doe amiss;
But who his limbs with labours, and his mind
Behaues with cares, cannot so easie miss.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 3.

And with such sober and vnnoted passion
He did behaue his anger ere 'twas spent,
As if he had but prou'd an argument.
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens, Act iii. sc. 5.

My lord through London was drawne on a slide,
To Tower hill, where with an axe he dide.
Clad in his armour painted all on paper,
Torne and reuers'd in spite of his behauer.

Mirror for Magistrates, p. 475.

As one all civil courtesey that could:
Who full of bounty, hospitably meek,
Of his behaviour greatly pleas'd to hear,
Forthwith commands his servants him to seek,
To honour him by whom his honour'd were.

Drayton. Moses. Birth and Miracles, b. i.

How gravely, how modestly, how reverently would ye behave yourselves before him all the while you are in his house, and especially at his holy table, where you see him coming to you, and offering you his most blessed body and blood, to preserve your souls and bodies to everlasting life. Beveridge, vol. i. Ser. 52.

She often expressed her dissatisfaction at that indecency of carriage which universally prevails in our churches; and wondered that they should be most careless of their behaviour towards God, who are most scrupulously nice in exacting and paying all the little decencies that are in use among men.-Atterbury. Upon the Death of the Lady Cutts.

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The concluding clause, this is the law and the prophets, has by some been interpreted to mean, this is the sum and substance of all religion; as if religion consisted solely in behaving justly and kindly to our fellow-creatures, and beyond this no other duty was required at our hands. Porteus, vol. i. Lect. 7.

We are not, perhaps, at liberty to take for granted that the lives of the preachers of Christianity were as perfect as their lessons: but we are entitled to contend, that the observable part of their behaviour must have agreed in a great measure with the duties which they taught. Paley. Evidences, c. 1. p. 1.

BE-HEAD. BEHEADING.

To head or behead, is to take off, cut off, strike off, the head.

And Eroude seide, I have biheedid Jon, and who is this of whom I here siche thingis? and he soughte to se him. Wielif. Luk, c. 9.

And Herode sayde: John haue I beheaded; who the is this of whom I heare such thynges? And he desyred to see him?-Bible, 1551. Ib.

So that there lyeth before the high altar, in St. Peters Church, two dukes, betweene two queenes, to wit, the D. of Somerset, and the D. of Northumberland, betweene Q. Anne, and Q. Katherine, all foure beheaded.

Stowe. Queen Mary, an. 1553.

Thus you see what be in manner all the principall points of his fable, setting aside and excepting those which are most execrable, to wit, the dismembering of horns and the beheading of Isis.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 1054.

I think it was Caligula who wished the whole city of Rome had but one neck, that he might behead them at a blow.-Spectator, No. 16.

Lord Clarendon relates that he [M. of Arguyle] was condemned to be hanged, which was performed the same day; on the contrary, Burnet, Woodrow, Heath, Echard, concur in stating that he was beheaded; and that he was condemned upon the Saturday and executed on the Monday. Paley. Evidences, pt. iii. c. 1. Be and Heard; past part. of Not uncommon in our old

BE-HEARD. the verb to hear. ballads.

BE-HEST. That which is named, said, ordered (to be done); the declared will,-in order, mandate, promise. See BEHET, HEST.

Ac Harald made hys wey byuore, as myd suykedom,
Myd gyftys & myd vayre byheste, & auong the kynedom.
R. Gloucester, p. 354.

After this biheste, that Thomas to tham said,
Sone alle the tempest in a throwe was laid.

R. Brunne, p. 149.
Thenne was fortune my foo. for al here fayre byheste
And poverte pursuwede me. and putte me to be lowe.
Piers Plouhman, p. 201.

To breken forword is not min entente,
Behest is dette, and I wold hold it fayn
All my behest, I can no better sayn.

Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Prologue, v. 4468.
For I dare make this behest,
That I to you haue nothing hid,

But tolde right as it is betide.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.

And that they might be assured, that he would performe all these behests and promises; he held with his left hand a lambe, and in the right a flint stone, and praied solemnely, That if hee failed herein, Jupiter and the rest of the Gods, would so kill him, as hee slew that lambe; and presently after his praier done, he smote the lambe on the head, and dasht out the braines.-Holland. Livivs, p. 419.

But us he sends upon his high behests
For state, as sovran King, and to enure
Our prompt obedience.-Milton. Par. Lost, b. viii.

But soon he calls the vision to his mind,
And ponders on the glorious charge assigned;
Fresh to his soul the high behest returns,
And with redoubled zeal his bosom burns.
Brooke. Jerusalem Delivered, b. i.

BE-HEW, v. From the application of Hew, (qv.) to form, figure, shape, it seems to have been extended to

The general aspect or appearance, to complexion and colour.

But lord so faire it was to shewe
For it was all with golde behewe.

BE-HET. BEHIGHT. BEHO'TE. BEHO'TEN.

Chaucer. The House of Fame. See BEHEST, and the quotation from R. of Gloucester. Behete, to declare the will, in promise rather than command; to promise. Be or bi-hete, be or be-hight are constantly used in Wiclif, where the modern version uses, to promise. Mark xiv. 11. A. S. "And beheton him feoh to syllanne." Wielif And bihighten to give him money." Behest stil remains in common use.

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BEHE TEER.

Theruor he gaf yt hym, as he byhet hym byuore,
And sende to hym myd the gyfte to Normandye theruor
R. Gloucester, p. 340
Theruor ych byhote God, that yne ssal kynge's crowne,
Neuere bere anerthe.
Id. p. 322.
Longe was her hue loked up. and lord mercy criede
And by highte to hym. that ous alle made
Hue sholde unsywe hure smok. and sette ther an heire
To afaiten hure flesch that fers was to synne.
Piers Piouhman, p. 8

Also wymmen in couenable abite with schamefastnes: and sobrenesse araiynge hemsilff, not in writhun heeri eithir in gold, eithir in peerlis, eithir precious clooth b that that bicometh wymmen biheetynge pitee, bi good werki Wiclif. Tymu. c.

In so myche Iesu is maad biheeter of the better testamer Id. Ebrewis, c. Thus shal man hope, that for his werkes of penance G shal yeve him his regne, as he behight him in the gospel Chaucer. The Persones Tu

And this behete I you withouten faille
Upon my trouth, and as I am a knight,
That whether of you bothe hath that might,
This is to sayn, that whether he or thou
May with his hundred, as I spake of now,
Sle his contrary, or out of listes drive,
Him shall I yeven Emelie to wive,
To whom that fortune yeveth so fayr a grace.
Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 18

He spake and saide; if I the saue,
What sikerues shall I haue

Of couenant, that afterwarde
Thou wolt ne gyue suche rewarde,

Id. Ib. b.

Id. Ib. b.

As thou behightest nowe before ?-Gower. Con. A. b.
And hath bihote him by his feyth,
That who the best reason seyth,
He shalle receiue a worthy mede.
To you my father I confesse,
Suche will my witte hath ouersette,
That what so hope me behete,
Full many a time I wene it sooth.
Astonnied some the scathefull gift beheld,
Behight by vow vnto the chast Minerve.
Surrey. Virgile. Enais.
Uppon which occasion his father at the warnynge
southsayers, which tolde him that the childe should
king, toke the childe to him, and brought him vp w
diligence in hoope of the state that was behighte him.
Goldyng. Justine, fo

The authors meaning should of right be heard,
He knoweth best to what end he enditeth:
Words sometime beare more then heart behiteth.
Mirror for Magistrates,

Now I a wailefull widow behight,
Of my old age haue this one delight,
To see thee succeede in thy fathers stead,
And flourish, in flowers of lustiehead.

Spenser. The Shepherd's Ca

Unto you would I be my live's space
As true, as any woman on earth is
Unto a man, doubteth nothing of this.
Small may she doe, that cannot well byheet,
Though not performed be such a promesse.
Browne. Shepheard's Pipe.

Mar. Come, Amie, you'll go with us?
Am. I am not well.

Lio. Shee's sick o' the yong shep'ard that bekist her.
B. Jonson. The Sad Shepherd, Act i. sc. 6.

BE-KNIT. A. S. Becnytte, nexus, knit, bound, tied, (Somner.)

Here stood the fiend, [Tisiphone,] and stopt their passage out:

And splaying foorth her filthy armes beknit with snakes about,

Did tosse and waue her hatefull head.

Arth. Golding. Ovid. Metamorphoses, b. iv.

BE-KNOW. To ken, to see; to recognize, to acknowledge.

That ys soth ich seide. and so ich by knowe
That ich have tynt tyme.-Piers Plouhman, p. 80.

For I dare not beknowe min owen name,
But ther as I was wont to highte Arcite,
Now highte I Philostrat, not worth a mite.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1558.

And whan they had told all her distresse
And all her tempest and all her hard caas
Unto the Queene appeared Eneas
And openly beknewe that it was he
Who had ioy than, but his meine

That hadden found her lord, her gouernour.

If the earth is belaboured with culture, it yieldeth corn; but lying neglected, it will be overgrown with brakes and thistles.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 18.

Homer illustrates one of his heroes encompassed with the enemy, by an ass in a field of corn, that hath his sides belaboured by all the boys of the village, without stirring a foot for it. Spectator, No. 161.

What groan was that I heard? Deep groan indeed
With anguish heavy laden. Let me trace it.
From yonder bed it comes, where the strong man,
By stronger arm belaboured, gasps for breath,
Like a hard-hunted beast.-Blair. The Grave.

BE-LACED. Belace, to cover with lace. The lace of a shoe is that by which the shoe is laced, caught, or held. Lace-made by catching and holding the threads together.

With proud delight, and with no less success

I turn'd my heart to those soul-conquering charms
Which flourish in smooth numbers: how to dress
In fierce aray war's thundering alarms;
How to belace and fringe soft love, I knew,
For all my ink was now Castalian dew.

Beaumont. Psyche, c. 2. s. 48.
BE'LAMY. Fr. Bel amy; Bel amour,
BE'LAMOUR. Bellus amicus. Fair friend.
Thou bel amy, thou pardonere, he said,
Tel us som mirth of japes right anon.

Chaucer. Pardoneres Prol. v. 12,252.

Wise Socrates,-
Pour'd out his life, and last philosophy,
To the faire Critias, his dearest belamie.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7.
Lo, lo, how braue she decks her bounteous boure,
With silken curtens and gold couerlets,
Therein to shrowd her sumptuous belamour.

Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 6.

To defer, to delay, to linger, to tarry, to come be

To thee sage Hermegild myself I leave,
My fame and pow'r: thee action cannot waste;
Caution retard, nor promptitude deceive;
Slowness belate, nor hope drive on too faste.

Davenant. Gondibert, b. ii. c. 2.
-Faerie elves,

Whose midnight revels, by a forrest side
Or fountain some belated peasant sees,

Or dreams he sees.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i.

Yet that you may see that I am something suspicious of myselfe, and doe take notice of a certaine belatednesse in me, I am the bolder to send you some of my nightward thoughts some while since, because they come in not altogether unfitly, made up in a Petrarchian stanza, which I told you of. Id. Letter. Birch's Life.

A watch-tow'r to the wand'rers of mankind;
Forlorn, belated, and with passions blind,
Who tread the foolish round their fathers trod,
And 'midst life's errours, hit on death's by-road.

Did not the distemper of their own stomachs affect them with a dizzy megrim, they would soon tie up their tongues, and discern themselves, like that Assyrian blasphemer, all this while reproaching not man, but the Almighty, the Holy One of Israel, whom they do not deny to have belawgiv'n his own sacred people with this very allowance.

Milton. On Divorce. To the Parliament.

Som

BE-LAY. Dut. Be-laeghen, Belegghen. ner says, Belawan, prodere, to belay, to bewray, betray. Skinner adds, insidiari. But he farther suggests, be, and lay, q. d. insidias objicere. Similar to this is waylay. See BELEAGUE.

To lay, sc. in wait, upon the watch, in ambush, in blockade, for an opportunity to assault or attack.

Thys fole bysette Kanterbury, and vaste bylay,
And gret raymson of hem wythinne esste to be out of wo.
R. Gloucester, p. 298.

-The Grekes sought
Unto the towne, and it belaie,
And wolden neuer parte awaie,
Till what by sleight, and what by strength,
They had it wonne in brede and length.

Gower. Con. A. b. v.

Anone this citee was without
Beleine, and seged all about.-Id. Ib. b. iii.
They had belayed all the coast along for vs, and being
dispersed so, were not well to be number'd.
Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. iii. p. 73.
Gainst such strong castles needeth greater might
Then those small forces, ye were wont belay;
Such haughty minds enur'd to hardy fight
Disdaine to yeeld vnto the first assay.-Spenser, Son. 14.
Silent they scud away, and haste their flight,

To neighb'ring woods, and trust themselves to night,
The speedy horse all passages belay,
And spur their smoaking steeds to cross their way;
And watch each entrance of the winding wood.
Dryden. Eneis, b. ix.
Inlaid or overlaid; covered.

BE-LAYED.

All in a woodman's iacket he was clad
Of Lincolne greene, belayd with siluer lace.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 2.

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BELCH, v.

BELCH, n. BE'LCHING.

A. S. Bealcan, Bealcettan, eructare, effundere, to blow forth, to pour forth. G. Douglas,

in the passage cited from Phaer and Addison, u es "Bokkis forth." Piers Plouhman writes, "Bolke." Bishop Hall and Dr. Beaumont, Belking." Phaer uses both Belch, and Bolke. Erigit eructans. It belch and bolketh out: perhaps to belly (qv.) to swell out, as a bag full of wind, and, consequentially

To blow forth, to eject; to throw or drive forth; to expel.

Belch also appears to have been the name of some heavy windy liquor: swelling the body. Benedicite he bygan wit a bolke, and hus brest knoked. Piers Plouhman, p. 110.

For when he gorged had himselfe, with meats and drinking drownd,

He bowed his neck to sleepe, and there he lay along the ground;

An hideous thing to sight: and belching out the gubs o blood,

And lumps of flesh, with wine, he gulped forth.
Phaer. Eneidos, b. iii

The giant, gorg'd with flesh, and wine and blood,
Lay stretcht at length and snoring in his den,
Belching raw gobbets from his maw, o'ercharg'd
With purple wine and cruddled gore confus'd.

Addison. Eneid, b. ii

Still, still I burn; my fire but changed is;
And though my lust be cool'd, my guilt is hot,
And belks and boils.-Beaumont. Psyche, c. 2. s. 146.
Their belking bosoms heaved high, and fain
They would have belched out their working load
Of blasphemy, which held their souls in pain.

Id. Ib. c. 15. s. 4 For our bodily grievances, what varieties doe we h meet withall? What aches of the bones, what belkin of 1 joynts, what convulsions of sinews? Bp. Hall. Balm of Gile Nor Ætna vomiting sulphureous fire Will ever belch; for sulphur will expire, (The veins exhausted of the liquid store;) Time was she cast no flames; in time will cast no mo Dryden. Ovid. Melam. b.

"Tis notorious from the instance under consideration,

it must be owing to the use of brown juggs, muddy be and the fumes of a certain memorable place of rendezy with us at meals, known by the name of Staincoat Hole

-The cloud.

Spectator, No.

Belch'd from the brazen throat of war, would hide, Industrious, the ruin which it spreads,

As if asham'd of massacre.-Thompson. Sickness, b. BE-LEAGUE. Į Dut. Be-laeghen, B BELE AGUER. Sghen; Sw. Belæggra; A Belic-jan. See BELAY.

To lay, place or dispose; to lay wait for, (s assault, to attack.) To beset or besiege.

For even the very expeditions and voyages in warre. not alwaies battels aranged, nor fields fought and b skirmishes, ne yet beseiging and beleaguing of cities. Holland. Plutarch,

And that if the great princes of the north
Will with an army royal set him forth,
Before the year expir'd that is to come,
He will with Bourbon new beleaguer Rome.

Drayton. Th

See, ev'ry way's a trap, each path's a train: Hell's troops my sole beleaguer; bow thine ears, And hear my cries pierce through my groans and f P. Fletcher. The Purple Island BELEE. I have been informed, (says Mr. vens,) that one vessel is said to be in the another, when it is so placed that the wind tercepted from it. Iago's meaning therefore i Cassio had got the wind of him, and becalm from going on. Lee is a place secure from t juries of wind and weather. A. S. Hleow, And Hleow is the past part. of Hliwan, H

That there is satisfactory evidence that many professing to be original witnesses of the Christian miracles, passed their lives in labours, dangers, and sufferings; voluntarily undergone in attestation of the accounts which they delivered, and solely in consequence of their belief of those accounts; and that they also submitted, from the same motives, to new rules of conduct.-Paley. Evidences, Prop. 1. The true believer, on the contrary, has the most perfect conviction that he is constantly under the protection of an almighty and merciful God, in whom he lives, and moves, and has his being.-Porteus, vol. i. Lect. 9.

BE-LIKE.

Belike in our older writers, and BELIKELY. in vulgar speech at the present day, is used to denote

It is likely, it is probable, it is credible; it may be; probably, perhaps.

In this season, the Bohemians (whiche belike had espied the vsurped aucthoritie of the bishop of Rome) began to rebell againste hys sea, which were falle into certain sectes of heresie.-Hall. Hen. VI. an. 7.

Moreover he received fourscore milch kine to the pail, and neatheards to keep them, having need of cowes milke belike, to heal a disease that fell upon him.

North. Plutarch, p. 252. I haue spoken before, and declared why I do vse it rather than any other; I haue laboured it, noted it, I am acquainted with it, and belike, I red it, before you knew whether there was any such booke or no.-Whitgift. Defence, p. 508.

That good earl [earl of Huntingdon] who well esteemed my father's service, having belikely heard some better words of me than I could deserve, made earnest enquiry after me, what were my courses, what my hopes.

Bp. Hall. Account of Himself.

Be that as it may, we find him, upon his return into England, employed in an expedition or two, by authority belike from the court; they being upon occasions of state.

Oldys. Life of Ralegh, p. 19. Being very poor, and belike wanting to buy fairer colours, [I. Bossam] wrought therefore for the most part in white and black.-Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 6. BELIMED. Glued, fastened together, entangled, as with lime.

Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, hath need to remember what every name he uses stands for, and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words; as a bird in lime-twigs, the more he struggles, the more belimed.-Hobbes. Leviathan, pt. i. c. 4.

BELIVE. The imper. Be and the noun Life. BLIVE. Be there life, or liveliness with life or liveliness; with activity, with spirit; quickly, instantly.

This noble erl with the Britones ageyn ys fou wente biliue,
And fagt, and slow faste.-R. Gloucester, p. 162.

And to and fro eke ride and gone as bliue,
All day as thick as been flien from an hiue,
And euery wight haue liberty to bleue
Where as him list, the bet withouten leue.

Chaucer. Troil & Cres. b. iv.

They were ful glad to excusen hem ful blive
Of thing, the which they never agilt hir live.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5981.
Now let us riden blive

Fer I wol holden compagnie with thee.

Id. The Freres Tale, v. 7013. Hob. God shield man, he should so ill haue thriue, All for he did his devoire beliue.

Spenser. Shepherd's Calender, p. 40.

Perdy, sir knight, saide then th' enchaunter blive,
That shall I shortly purchase to your hond;
For now the best and noblest knight alive
Prince Arthur is, that wonnes in faerie lond.

Id. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 3.

My lorde, whan I came fyrst into this lande
To be your wedded wyfe,

The fyrst boone that I wolde aske,

Ye would graunt it me belyfe.-Adam Bell. Percy, vol. i.

BELL, v.

A. S. Bellan, to bellow; Ger.

BELL, n. & Dut. Bellen, to bellow, and to BELFRY. sound a bell. Spelman says, Pel

vis, unde nostrum vernaculum bel. To bell is to form the shape of, to grow in or into the form or shape of a bell.

To bear the bell, Mr. Nares explains, to win the prize at a race, where a bell was the usual prize, and he quotes the examples from Saltonstall, and Camden. Mr. Todd produces the quotation rom Riche, which, he thinks, countenances the opinion, that the expression is deduced from the sheep bearing the bell.

A belle to byggen of bras. other of brygt selver
And knytte it on a coler. for oure comune profit
And honge aboute the cattys halse.-Piers Plouhman, p. 9.
This Eolus anon vp stert,
And with his blacke clarioun,
He han to blasen out a soun
As loud as belleth wind in hell.

Chaucer. The House of Fame, b. iii.

Thise riotoures three, of which I tell,
Long erst or prime rong of any bell,
Were set hem in a taverne for to drinke:
And as they sat, they herd a belle clinke
Beforn a corps, was carried to his grave.

Id. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,595.
There maie nothinge his tonge daunt,
That he ne clappeth as a belle,
Wherof if thou wolt that I telle

It is behouely for to here.-Gower. Con. 4. b. i.
But when in single fight he lost the bell,
How through his troupes he fled, there might you marke.
Fairfax. Tasso, b. xvii. § 69.
My prickear'd ewe, since thou dost beare the bell,
And all thy mates do follow at thy call.
Keepe still this launes.

R. Riche. Adventures of Simonides, (1584.) But M. Hardinge for ease and expedition, hath diuised a shorter way, to teach the people by a belrope. He turneth his backe vnto his bretheren, and speaketh but twoo woordes alowde Pater noster: and causeth the sanctus bel to play the parte of a deacon, to put the people in remembrance, that now they must pray. Jewel. A Replie to M. Hardinge, p. 178.

Among the Romans it [a horse race] was an Olympick exercise, and the prize was a garland, but now they beare the bell away.-Saltonstall, Char. 23.

Here lyes the man whose horse did gaine,
The bell in race on Salsbury Plaine.

Camden. Rem. Epitaphes.

The Italians are they, who in this art [fortification] have shewed themselves most skilful, as well in the precepts as practise thereof, and have carried away the bell from all other nations.-Hakewill. Apologie, p. 258.

If the prayer be good,.the commoner the better,
Prayer in the churches words, as well
As sense, of all prayers bears the bell.

Ch. Harvie. Walton's Angler, pt. i. c. 5. While the Englishmen (he said) drank only ale, they were strong brawny able men, and could draw an arrow an ell long; but when they fell to wine and beer, they are found to be much impair'd in their strength and age-so the ale bore away the bell among the doctors. Howell. b. i. s. 2, Let. 21.

He [B. Jonson] was buried three days after in St. Peter's church within the city of Westminster, commonly called the Abbey church, not among the poets, but at the west end near to the belfry, under the escutcheon of Rob. de Ros.

Wood. Athena Oxon.

For my own part, when I am in town, for want of these opportunities, I exercise myself an hour every morning upon a dumb-bell that is placed in the corner of my room, and pleases me the more because it does every thing I require of it in the most profound silence.-Spectator, No. 115. Lo! as the surplic'd train draw near To this last mansion of mankind, The slow sad bell, the sable bier, In holy musings wrap the mind!

Mallet. Funeral Hymn. With pride of heart the churchwarden surveys High o'er the belfry, girt with birds and flow'rs, His story wrote in capitals: "Twas I That bought the fount; and I repaired the pews." Smart. The Hop Garden, b. ii. Fr. Belle, from the Lat. Bellus, is applied to the female, as beau to the male. See BEAU. Beldam, Mr. Nares observes,

BELLE.

BE'LDAM.

BELSIRE.

BE'LLIBONE.

The teeming earth

Is with a kinde of collick pincht and vext,

By the imprisoning of vnruly winde

Within her wombe: which for enlargement striuing,
Shakes the old beldame earth, and tombles downe
Steeples, and mosse-growne towers.

Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. IV. Act iii. sc. 1.
Who this land in such estate maintain'd,
As his great belsire Brute from Albion's heirs it won..
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 8.

Per. I saw the bouncing Bellibone :
Will. Hey ho Bonibell,

Per. Tripping ouer the dale alone,
Will. She can trip it very well.

Spenser. Shepherd's Calender. August.
Say what strange motive, goddess! could compel
A well bred lord t' assault a gentle belle?
O say what stranger cause, yet unexplor'd,
Could make a gentle belle reject a lord?

Pope. The Rape of the Lock

Riot had the beginning, because that our men being mu accustomed either in forraign wars in France, Scotland. Ireland, or being overmuch exercised with civil wars, with the realme, (which is the fault that falleth ordinarily ame bellicous nations,) whereby men of warre, captaines a souldiers become plentifull.

Sir T. Smith. Commonwealth of Engla

The bellique Cæsar, as Swetonius tells us, was noted singularity in his apparrel, and did not content him: without adding something to his senators purple robe. Feltham. Kesolves, ii.

Never mind, brother Toby, he would say, by God's ble ing, we shall have another war break out again som these days and when it does, the belligerent powers they would hang themselves, cannot keep us out of play

Sterne. Tristram Shandy, vol. vi. c.

It was, therefore, an essential preliminary to the w proceeding, to fix whether the balance of power, the liber and laws of the empire, and the treaties of different b gerent powers in past times, when they put an end to tilities, were to be considered as the basis of our pre negociation.-Burke. Letter on Regicide Peace.

BELLOW. BE'LLOWER. BE'LLOWING, N. BE'LLOWS.

See BELL. To low, to low. A. S. Hlew-an, hleowTo low, to make a low low'd or loud noise.

And after that cometh suggestion of the divel, this say, the divels belous, with which he bloweth in man the of concupiscence.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

The bull of bras, which gapeth wide,

It shulde seme, as though it were

A belowinge in a mans ere,

And not the crienge of a man.-Gower. Con. A. b. v
About the pile of faggots, sticks and hay,
The bellowes rais'd the newly kindled flame.
Fairfax. Godfrey of Bulloigne

They made such a noyse, that the walles of P sounded with the eccho thereof like a wood, in suel that a man would haue thought that the hils had be out to the valleis, and that the cloudes hade giuen fo most terrible thunder.-Stowe. Edw. III. an. 1357.

The Ambrons that had fled and escaped from the throw, did howl out all night with loud cries, which nothing like mens lamentations and sighs, but rath wild beasts bellowing and roaring. So that the bel of such a great multitude of beastly people, mingle ther with threats and wailings, made the mountains abouts and the running river to rebound again of the and eccho of their cries marvellously.

North. Plutarch, Seuering from all the rest, and setting gone Full fiftie of the violent bellowers, Which, driuing through the sands, he did reuerse (His births-craft strait remembring) all their houe Chapman. Hymn to i