BEH 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) Where ease abounds, it's eath to doe amiss; Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 3. And with such sober and vnnoted passion My lord through London was drawne on a slide, Mirror for Magistrates, p. 475. As one all civil courtesey that could: 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. ВЕН 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, After this biheste, that Thomas to tham said, R. Brunne, p. 149. To breken forword is not min entente, Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Prologue, v. 4468. 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 But soon he calls the vision to his mind, 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 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. 66 BEHE TEER. Theruor he gaf yt hym, as he byhet hym byuore, 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 He spake and saide; if I the saue, Of couenant, that afterwarde Id. Ib. b. Id. Ib. b. As thou behightest nowe before ?-Gower. Con. A. b. The authors meaning should of right be heard, Now I a wailefull widow behight, Spenser. The Shepherd's Ca Unto you would I be my live's space God gentleman) the wrongs I haue done thee stirre Se rarely kind) are as interpreters f my behind-band slacknesse. Shakespeare. Winter's Tale, Act v. sc. 1. But they were so disappointed, through the vigilance and Firar of Ralegh's company, and that of captain Denny, that such as were not left dead behind, were forced to retreat We hate than good speed.-Oldys. Life of Ralegh. paints of good-breeding, which I have hitherto sted upon, regard behaviour and conversation, there is a tams upon dress. In this too the country are hind-hand.-Spectator, No. 119. In the journey of life some are left behind, because they Ay feeble and slow: some because they miss the and many because they leave it by choice, and, instead award with a steady pace, delight themselves entary deviations, turn aside to pluck every flower, rease in every shade.-Johnson. Rambler, No. 89. A. S. Be-healdan, Behaldan, Healdan; Dut. Behouden, tenere, servare, observare. BE-HOLD. BEHOLDEN, BEBYLDER. BEHOLDING. BEHOLDINGNESS. To keep or hold, (sc. eyes fixed upon any object,) to look at it, to observe, to consider. Biden, holden, kept, bound, obliged. hon is thus used by Gower: In tale written also that a worthie prince is holde The av of his land to holde.-Con. A. b. vii. --Tely in speciall Aboue al ether I am most holde.-Ib. b. viii. Holde that is, bound, obliged; under bond, or obliga tion. In the ship as other prynces in gret pruyde he bi hulde, And bade mid hym bute twei men, hym thogte ysherte feld-R. Gloucester, p. 34. Exteward ich bekulde, after the sonne And sawe a tour as ich trowede, truthe was ther ynne. Whose blessed and sacred body and soule vnited and knytte They should consider howe deepely they wer bounden and Mastere we witen that thou art soth fast and thou techist as God-Id. Mark, c. 10. there, if a man be ocupied in ony gilt, ghe that ben aal en forme ghe such oon in spyryt of softnesse bithisilf lest that thou be tempted.-Id. Gal. c. 6. This right at the west side of Itaille at the rote of Vesulus the cold, ty plain, habundant of vitaille, many a toun and tour thou maist behold. The third good of great comfort yeneth to louers most disport, of sight and beholding, The reped is swete loking.-la. Rom. of the Rose. A kungu is holden ouer all the bat in speciall im where he is moste beholde, The hide his pitee most beholde, Tatbes the lieges of the londe, Te ben ever vnder his honde.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii. Ye mare it signifye Cryste euer to be sought and to be Man in faith of men in exyle. Leonatus, the young king of Pontus, (who had been there to acknowledge his beholdenness to them, whom he was deservingly bound to) took the field.-Id. Ib. b. vi. Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe; and Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man.-John, xix. 5. Thus vntil such time as I may in some more larger When as the sun their thickness doth oppose Id. Battle of Agincourt. Ford. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Act iv. sc. 1. still detained by the fascination of the peeper's eyes, who I frequently offer'd to turn my sight another way, but was had long practised a skill in them, to recall the parting If our constitution, I say, with so great advantages, does BE-HOOVE, or BEHO'OF. BEHO'VEFUL. BEHO'VEFULLY. BEHO'VABLE. And worke not alway in every nede by on conseillour allone for somtime behoveth it to be conseilled by many. Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus. But it were through the God of Loue, That might me ease or comfort gette, What should I paint or drawen it on length To Id. Troil. & Cres. b. ii. Now it is behovely to tellen whiche ben dedly sinnes, that is to say, chiefetaines of sinnes.-Id. The Persones Tale. The kynge vpon his tale answerde And said: If this thing, whiche he herde It shall not be to his behoue.-Gower. Gon. A. b. ii. A kynge behoueth eke to flee The vice of prodigalitee, That he measure in his expence So kepe, that of indigence He maie be saufe; for who that nedeth, In all his werke the weres he spedeth.-Id. Ib. b. vii. Is most behoueliche ouer all.-Id. Ib. b. vii. All these things it behooueth your Maiestie to send in time: for I can assure your Maiestie that you shall not haue vpon the sea such good shippes as these are. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 558. For a citie and a prouince be not the faire houses, and the strong walles, nor the defence of any engine, but the lyuing bodies of men, being able in number and strength, to maintaine themselues by good order of iustice, and to serue for all necessary, and behoueable vses in the common welth. Sir John Cheeke. The Hurt of Sedition. It is behouable to take cousayle eche of other howe we maye entre into the hauen, and to take lade. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 171. But yet in that point in which it had been chefely of all expedient and behoueable to geue eare vnto Johns sayinges, he did not onely doe after his counsayle, but also caste hym into pryson for geuing hym good aduertisement. Udal. Luke, c. 3. Tha kyng Stephan prepayred to set forwarde his people, and erle Baudewyne had wordes of comforte to the kynges people, and sayd: "men yt shall fyght, to them is behouefull three thynges: ye firste is ryght of ye cause," &c. &c. Fabyan, c. 232. King Henry [3.] being sicke, called before him Gilbert de Clare, Earle of Gloucester, and caused him to be sworne to keepe the peace of the land, to the behoofe of Edward his sonne, & then died the sixteenth of Nouember, in the yeere 1272.-Stowe. Hen. III. an. 1272. Whence it was, that his said late Majestie (of happy memory) gave publicke order for bestowing the later parts of God's day in familiar catechising; then which, nothing could be devised more necessary and behovefull to the soules A. S. Behefe; Ger. Be- of men.-Bp. Hall. Old Religion. Epist. Dedicatorie. But tell us of some more weighty dislikes in the Statutes then these, and that may more behoouefully import the reformation of them.-Spenser. Of Ireland. If therefore we mean to be good or to be happy, it behoveth us to lose no time; to be presently at our own great task; to snatch all occasions, to embrace all means incident of reform This wit wot witerly, as the world techeth And thus it bihofte Crist to suffre; and rise agen fro deeth Thus it behoued Christe to suffer, and to ryse agayne from deathe the thyrde daye, and that repentaunce and remission of synnes shoulde be preached in his name amonge all na Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 6. cions, and muste begynne at Jerusalem.-Bible, 1551. Ib. ing our hearts and lives.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 16. It behoves you, therefore, (and I cannot repeat it too often,) Puck. Now the hungry lyons rores, See To Shakespeare. Mid. Night's Dreame, Act v. sc. 2. Piers Plouhman. Crede. Mar. Come, Amie, you'll go with us? Lio. Shee's sick o' the yong shep'ard that bekist her. 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 For I dare not beknowe min owen name, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1558. And whan they had told all her distresse 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 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 Beaumont. Psyche, c. 2. s. 48. Chaucer. Pardoneres Prol. v. 12,252. Wise Socrates,- Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7. Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 6. To defer, to delay, to linger, to tarry, to come be To thee sage Hermegild myself I leave, Davenant. Gondibert, b. ii. c. 2. Whose midnight revels, by a forrest side 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; 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, -The Grekes sought Gower. Con. A. b. v. Anone this citee was without To neighb'ring woods, and trust themselves to night, BE-LAYED. All in a woodman's iacket he was clad 66 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. The giant, gorg'd with flesh, and wine and blood, Addison. Eneid, b. ii Still, still I burn; my fire but changed is; 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 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 tepere, fovere. (See LEE.) To belee, here then, is appli, consequentially To shelter (sc. from the wind; and thus, to are no wind to enable me to sail). -But be (Sir) had th' election ; A: 1 of whom his eies had seene the proofe At Rades at Ciprus, and on other grounds Christen'd, and Heathen) must be be-leed, and calm'd BE-LEAVE. A.S. Leof-an, Lyf-an, Be-lyf-an. (See BELIEVE.) Quoque (nefas) omnes nefanda uste reliqui. "Quhom now, schame to say the harme, so wikkitly reddy to myschevus deith beleft have (G. Douglas.) "Whom all (alas) I now have left unto their death and grave," (Phaer.) SLLAVE. To go away from; to relinquish; to stay, or ase to stay or remain; to stay, or remain. the kyng Edward and ys men hamward ywend were, That folk of Kent, agen ys wylle, byleuede by hynde there. R. Gloucester, p. 269. Te that fole of thys lond to synne her wylle al geue, And gut ole herto her synnes byleue Tor me and other halewen.-Id. p. 265. And er amonge the holy tales, Lake as thei weren fisshes scales Tefellen from hym nowe and efte, THE that there was nothynge belefte K this great maladie.-Gower. Con. A. b. ii. BE-LEPER. Lat. Lepra, that which breaks the skin into scales, (Vossius.) Ca. You have a law, Lords, that without remorse Baum. & Fletch. The Laws of Candy, Act v. sc. 1. Eternal mischief! I must urge no more: Thus will I pull thy hair, and thus I'll drag Id. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Act iv. sc. 3. which two primitive nurses, (the parity and poverty sters, for such they were indeed, the Church of God ay fourished than ever after, since the time that yard church-revenue rushing in, corrupted and pall the clergy with a worse infection than Geha Milton. Eiconoclastes. c. 14. BELGARDES. Fr. Belles regardes. The whies, nawares away her wondring eye Which he perceiving, euer priuily A painted face, belied with vermeyl store G. Fletcher. Christ's Triumph on Earth. In's body too no critique eye could find Cowley. Elegy on John Littleton, Esq. I have little to recommend my opinions but long observa- BELIEVE, v. Dut. Be-looven, Ghe-looven; cre For it bihoueth that a man comynge to God bileue that he he is, and that he is rewardere to men that seken hym. Wiclif. Ebrewis, c. 9. For he that commeth to God must beleue that God is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seke hym. Bible, 1551. Ib. Custance answer'd; Sire, it is Cristes might, Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 4990. Id. The Second Nonnes Tale, v. 15,531. And this beleue is so certayne, So full of grace and of vertue, That what man clepeth to Jesu, For when he hath wonne a countrey, towne, or sygnory, he desyreth nothynge but truage, and leueth styll euery man in his owne byleue, and he putteth neuer no mā frō his herytage.-Berners. Froissart. Chron. vol. ii. c. 40. Whanne the flemmynges sawe that, they sayd howe their lorde was to moche french, and yuell counsayled, and also sayd howe they wolde do no good to hym, syth he wolde nat belyue their counsayls: than they toke and putte hym in Cortoyse prison, and sayd howe he shulde neuer depart, without he wolde folowe and byleue their counsayls: also they sayd, that the erle his father, belyued and loued to moche the frenchemen, for if he wolde a byleued the, he shuld haue ben the greattest lorde in all christendome, and recouered agayn Lyssle, Doway, and Bethwyn, and yet alyve.-Id. Ib. vol. i. c. 140. BE/LIEF. BELIEFUL. BELIEFULNESS. Believer. BELIEVING, n. The etymologists do not attempt to account for this important word :-it is, undoubtedly, formed upon the Dut. Leven; Ger. Leben; A. S. Lif-ian, Be-lif-ian; Goth. Liban, vivere, to live or be-live, to dwell. Live or leve, be- or bi-live or leve, are used indifferently by old writers, whether to denote vivere or credere. ( (See LEVE.) In the three It is for thee sufficient, to shewe a mynde beliefull and first examples from Robert of Gloucester, Bi-leve, bryng to effecte, who is of power to do whatsoeuer his wyll is. readie to obeie. All the residue shall he accomplishe and is to live or continue to live, to dwell. fourth-"Right by-leve him taught," is taught him to live rightly, taught him a rule by which to by-leve, or to live; and gave him Christendom, i. e. Christianity; made known to him the life of Christ, how he byleved or lived, as told in the gospels of Christ. In Piers Plouhman, "to bring forth your bi-leue," is to bring forth that by which you may live. In Lord Berners-" His own byleue," is his own living or dwelling - place; his dwelling, his domain. See BELEAVE. In the To believe, then, is to live by or according to, In speaking, many false belgards at her let fly. And on thine eylids, waiting thee beside, Ten thousand graces sit, and when they move BE-LIBEL. To assail with libels; defamatory weches or writings. BE-LIE. A.S. Be-lecgan; Ger. Be-liegen; Be-lieghen; to lie or lye. Tore the lie to; to contradict; to calum; to represent falsely; to falsify. wash (whosoever readeth it] shall easly perceaue, not mary onely and that they lye: but also the very cause asphemy, and what stirreth the so furiously to belge the truth?-Tyndall. Workes, p. 105. A if be hadde dyed therin, had he not died for the Fer knowing in himself that all they belied him, he bound to belye himselfe with them, and confesse elfe an vatrueth: but had been in great sinne if elde haue done.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 215. Ar when thy glass shall it present d those smiles which once were there, foring, like some stale monument, alp departed from its hair; elf frighted, wilt thou start, and swear I belied thee when I call'd the fair? Thomas Beedome. Ellis, vol. iii. To think, deem, or judge right; to be firmly Y geue here the to thi wyf, &, gef thou wolt by leue here, That rygt bi leue hym tagte, and gef hym Cristendom. 73. Id. P. Sori ich am (quoth Vortiger) tho he herde thes. And by leyve on a new lawe, (thei shall) beo ylost. lyf and The first great instrument of changing our whole nature into the state of grace, flesh into the spirit, is a firm belief, and a perfect assent to, and hearty entertainment of the promises of the gospel.—Id. Ib. Ser. 11. Then shall they seek to avail themselves of names, The thought that there are such riches of mercy in his heart and nature wonderfully addeth to the credibility and believableness (as I call it) of those promises and particular mercies.-Goodwin. Works, vol. iv. pt. i. p. 88. For the scripture-faith, is not a meere believing of historicall things, and upon inartificiall arguments, or testimonies onely; but a certain higher and diviner power in the soul, that peculiarly correspondeth with the Deity. Cudworth. Intellectual System, Pref If others in the same glass better see, Dryden. Religio Laici. But is there no way then whereby it is possible to perceive him? Yes surely; we may and ought to perceive him by that spiritual sense as I may call it, which he hath implanted in us, suitable to his own nature, even by a firm and steadfast belief in him, whereby we are as fully persuaded that he is, as that we are; and that he is wheresoever we are, as that we ourselves are there.-Beveridge, vol. ii. Ser. 105. By tales like these is the envy raised by superior abilities every day gratified: when they are attacked, every one hopes to see them humbled; what is hoped is readily believed, and what is believed is confidently fold. Johnson. Life of Prior. 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 to and fro eke ride and gone as bliue, Chaucer. Troil & Cres. b. iv. They were ful glad to excusen hem ful blive Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5981. 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, Id. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 3. My lorde, whan I came fyrst into this lande 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 Chaucer. The House of Fame, b. iii. Thise riotoures three, of which I tell, Id. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,595. It is behouely for to here.-Gower. Con. 4. b. i. 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, 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, 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, Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. IV. Act iii. sc. 1. Per. I saw the bouncing Bellibone : Per. Tripping ouer the dale alone, Spenser. Shepherd's Calender. August. 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 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 |