BE-DAW. See ADAW. To awake. No day them awaketh; they being always awake: on the watch. There is no daie whiche hem bedaweth, 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 flung: But now in dust his beard bedawb'd, his haire with bloud is clung. Phaer. Eneidos, 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, 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 bedaub 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, 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 other, when it is bedeaded in its morals, as to that pudor that naturally should belong to a man. BE-DECK. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 193. For when dame nature first had framde hir heauenly face, When May is in his prime, Then may each heart rejoice; Richard Edwards. Ellis, vol. ii. My deeds at Rome, inricht me with renoune, Mirror for Magistrates, p. 187. Where rest my muse; till (jolly shepheards swaines) Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. s. 2. Sir Walter might, upon some great assemblies at court, have his very shoes bedeck'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 great veneration, and till within these few years, was annually, on that festival, bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands, and was encircled by a jovial band of young people, celebrating the day with song and dance. Pennant. Journey from Chester. BE-DEVIL. See DEVIL. Moore. Song 1. The hot sommer drieth the cornes, and autumpne cometh ayen of heauie apples, and the fleeting raine bedeweth the winter.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. iv. Up start my staring locks, And what with bloud and brine I all Turberville. Pyndara's Aunswere. And her faire face, faire bosome he bedewes 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. Both nations shall, in Britaine's royall crowne, Thomson. Summer. Whereas he sitting found, in secret shade, For, all his armour was like saluage weed, Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 4. I have a bower at Bucklesford-Bury, If thoult wend thither, my little Musgrave, Little Musgrave. Percy, vol. iii. With sorrow for my guide, as there I stood, 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 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, ve apes of modern race, 1545 BE'DLAM, n. Bethlehem, Bethlem, Bedlar. BE'DLAM, adj. The Hospital of St. Mary BE'DLAMITE. Bethlem, bestowed in upon the city of London, who appropriated it to the reception of lunatics. See Pennant's London. Sometimes, in thinking of what I have had I from a sudden ecstasy grow mad: Then, like a bedlam, forth thy El'nor runs, Like one of Bacchus' raging frantic nuns. Drayton. Elenor to D. Humphrey. And as he would proceed with his oration, One of the chiefest of this bedlam nation Lays hold on him, and asks who he should be. 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 wicked. ness, such an one should be put into Bedlam. Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 1 At this rate we are wonderfully mistaken, when we speak of Don Quixote as a madman, and of Leonidas, Brutus, Wallace, Hampden, Paoli, as wise, and good, and great! The case, it seems, is just the reverse: these deserve no other name than that of raving bedlamites. BE-DO'LVEN. Dug. Beattie. On Truth, pt. ii. c. 2. A. S. Be-delfan, Be-dolfen. BE-DRAWE. To drag or draw. And after toke the deade cors, And let it bedrawe awey with hors She was none other wise grauen.-Gower. Con. A. b. iil. BE-DREINTE. A. S. Bedrencean, Drencean. To drench. 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. BEDRID. A. S. Ridan, insidere, incumbere. A. S. Bedreda. One so weak through sickness or old age, that he cannot rise from his bed. Bedrid, (Somner.) Bedd-reise. A man fixed to his bed by continued sickness. Riese 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: 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. Workcs, p. 237. When showres of teares from the celestial globe, 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. Millon. Samson Agonistes. Fear not now the fever's fire, Fear not now the death-bed groan, Pangs that torture, pangs that tire, Bed-rid age with feeble moan.-Mason. Caractacus. BE-DROPT. To drip or drop; to fall, to 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. (Not so thick swarm'd once the soil Bedropt with blood of Gorgon, or the Isle Ophiusa.) Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x. 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, Pope. Imitation of Horace, Ep. 7. 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, Donne. Anatomy of the World. BE-DYE. To stain, to colour, to 'dip or steep. Sometime they loine, 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 Thus to their toils, in early summer, run To take the burdens, and relieve their friends; And Mr. Butler, a great bee-master, in his Fœminine sharp words and cutting speeches, any man hath cleansed [He should] take it well and be thankfull, if haply by some and purified his heart full of cloudy mists and palpable darknesse, like as men drive bee-hires, and rid away bees with smoake.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 47. BEECH. A. S. Boc, Bece; Dut. Bueche; BE'ECHEN. 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: nyos, so called, anо Tоυ payew, to eat, because the mast-bearing tree supplied men with food in the earliest ages. This false Chanon (the foule fend him fetch) Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,629. Fairfax. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. vii. s. 19. A beechen mast then, in a hollow base He sings thee, Bacchus, patron of the vine; The gentle shepherds on an hillock plac'd, I know not why the beech delights the glade, Prior. Knowledge, b. i. Ara. Thou bitch-wolfes-sonne, canst va not hearo? 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, On some, a priest succinct in amice white Pope. The Dunciad, b. iv. As these were dishes with which I was utterly unaequainted, 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 is barley. Goldast thinks a pyris; beer being first made of pears. 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 enyl 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. Among those that were without the fort, and which were of the foresaid company of Capfaine Ribault, there was a carpenter of three score yeeres olde, one a beere-brewer. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 354. 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; BEETLE, v. BEETLEBROWS. BEETLEHEADED. A Pope. The Dunciad, b. iii. Beetle, a mallet, Skinner and Junius say is perhaps from the verb to beat. three man beetle was one so heavy that it required three men to manage it, (Nares.) Beetleheaded, as thick as a beetle; Beetle, the insect, Skinner also supposes to be from the same verb, to beat; because in their evening flight, they beat against us. Beetlebrow is a brow, overhanging like that of a beetle. Hence Mr. Malone thinks Shakespeare Id. Henry Emma. coined the verb, to beetle, to hang over. 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. Bauf; 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. He was bytellbrowede and baberlupped. whit two blery eyen.-Piers Plouhman, p. 97. Proude Jerusalem deserued not to haue this preeminence, which, albeit she were in every dede as blynde as a betell, yet thought herselfe to haue a perfect good syght, and for 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. 2 Say not the people well, that fortune fanours fooles? So well they say, I thinke, which name her beetle blind. Mirror for Magistrales, p. 149. Hor. What if it tempt you toward the floud. my Lord! Or to the dreadfull sonnet [suramit) of the cliffe, That beetles o'er his base into the sea. Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act i. sc. 4. Giue me a case to put my visage in, A visor for a visor, what care I 1d. Romeo & Juliet, Act 1. sc. 1 Or when the stillness of the grey-ey'd eve, Cooper. The Power of Harmony, b. ii. Or where the beetle winds Collins. Ode to Evening. R. Brunne, p. 123. Befelle, that, in that seson on a day, Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 19. What shall befalle here afterwarde Gower. Con. A. Prologue. In the meane season a bitter plague befelle among them for their corupt liuing, consuming in short tyme such a multitude of people, that the quicke were not sufficient to bury the dead.-Stowe. Brytaines & Saxons, an. 447. I could say much more of the king's majesty, without flattery, did I not fear the imputation of presumption, and withal 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. [Plato] lays it down as a principle, that whatever is permitted 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 propriety, 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 loves Farewell.-Melmoth. Pliny, b. iii. Let. 17. BE-FIGHT. To combat, to contend, to battle. BE-FIT. Surrey. Virgile. Enæis, b. ii. To adapt, to suit, to become. So that it semes her will Phy, phy, phy, phy, to sing, Since phy befutteth him so well, In every kind of thing. For which, ere long, to his just trial led 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, 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. BEFORETIME. 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, And ther geode byuore hym there In Acres of hir is born a mayden childe dame Jone. 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 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. By this provident councell, and laying downe this good In all the robes befitting his degree, VOL. I. Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. iv. Lady, yee must openly you confesse, 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 beforehand 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-FRECKLE. with various spots. To freak; to spot, or colour To benefit, to aid, to serve. This last request to you I do commend, 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 BEG, v. BEGGAR, V. BEGGAR, n. BEGGAR, adj. BE'GGING, n. BE'GGARY. BEGGARING. BEGGARLY, adj. BEGGARLY, ad. BEGGARLINESS. solicit, or entreat for. Pope. Imitation of Horace, Ep. 1. 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 Ploukman, 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 Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11882. 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, 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: Spenser. Mother Hobberds 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 Coelius, 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. Persuade a man that he is a beggar and a vagabond, and you shall instantly see him change his manners. Beattie. On Truth, pt. ii. c. 2. 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. And shake your sturdy trunks, ye prouder pines, Whose swelling graines are like begald alone, With the deep furrowes of the thunder-stone. Bp. Hall. Defiance to Envy. BE-GA/WED. To bedeck with gawdy things, with any fine, showy, gay things. The senate liked very well of this device, and chose such a number of bond-maids as she desired to have, and trim ming 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 BE-GET. BEGETTER. BEGETTING, n. } to produce, to generate. Tho adde the Brutons the maystrye al bygyte R. Gloucester, p. 219. He ssolde be othere's eyr of al that he adde, Id. p. 383. 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 imaginació, 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, 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. BEGINNER. BEGINNING. BEGINNINGLESS. Be and gin. A. S. Aginnan, beginnan, ginnan, incipere, inchoare, aggredi, instituere; Ger. Beginnen, ginnen; Dut. Be-ghin-nen, ghinnen; Sw. Begynna. The A. S. Beginnan, 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 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, For now bigynnes Dauid to wax a werreour, For God that al by gan in gynnynge of the worlde An hyne that had hys hyre ere he begonne.-Id. p. 74. Fro that tyme Jhesus bigan to preche and seie, do yo penaunce for the kyngdom of hevenes schal come nigh. Wielif. 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, Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6755, Thei leaue nought, whan thei beginne Stont of hymselfe, and hath begonne All other thinges at his will.-Gower. Con. A. b. viii. Surrey. Virgile. Ænæis, b. iv. And lette hym not teache vs our lesso in a small ragged hande, wherein a yonge begynner can scant perceive one letter from another, but lette hym teache vs in a fare great letter of some text hande, that is more easye to learne vpon. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 574. Most noble virgine, that by fatall lore But to begin that which never was, whereof there was no example, whereto there was no inclination, wherein there was no possibilitie of that which it should be, is proper onely to such power as thine, the infinite power of an infinite Creator.-Bp. Hall. Cont. The Creation. What can I see, O God, in thy creation, but miracles of wonders? Thou madest something of nothing, and of that something, all things. Those which wast without a beginning, gavest a beginning to time, and to the world in time. Id. Ib. The said Tanaquil was the first that made the coat or cassocke woven right out, all through, such as new beginners (namely, young souldiours, barristers, and fresh brides) put on under white plaine gowns, without any guard of purple. Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 48. It will, they presume, be soon enough to begin to-morrow or next day, a month or a year hence when they shall find more commodious opportunity, or shall prove better disposed thereto; in the mean time with Solomon's sluggard, yet, say they, a little sleep, and little slumber, a little folding of the hands.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 16. supposition (to suppose an infinite succession of changeable 'Tis in reality, and in point of argument, the very same and dependent beings produced one from another in endless progression, without any original cause at all] as it would be to suppose one continued being, of beginningless and itself, nor having its existence founded in any self-existent endless duration, neither self-existent and necessary in cause, which is directly absurd and contradictory. Clarke. Demons. of the Attributes, prop. 2. The sense of the word eternity has nothing to do with that distinction, being but one, and importing neither more nor less than beginningless and endless duration. Waterland. Works, vol. ii. p. 327. Some writers upon art carry this point too far, and suppose that such a body of universal and profound learning la requisite, that the very enumeration of its kinds is enough to frighten a beginner.-Sir J. Reynolds, Dis. 7.. BE-GNAW. A. S. Begnagan, rodere, corrodere; to eat into; corrode. The worme of conscience still begnaw thy soule, Shakespeare. Rich. III. Acti. s. 3. His horse hip'd with an old mothy saddle, besides, begnawne with the bots.-Id. T. of the Shrew, Act iii. sc. 2. BE-GO'DDED. Endowed as gods, with the attributes of gods. Thus by degrees paganism came to be christened into a new form and name, by their setting up their Divi, or begodded tutelar saints, and prosecuting their apotheosis with divine worship.-South, vol. v. Ser. 97. BE-GONE. Gone far; sunk deep; (sc. in woe or weal.) Also the imper. Be, and the past part. Gone; be it, that you are gone: get you gone; go. I trow that no wight might her plese Nor she ne would her sorow slake Nor comfort none vnto her take, So deepe was her wo begonne And eke her hert in angre ronne 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 therupon, Ye shall be riche men for euer.-Id. Ib. b. v. There was a kyng, which Lichomede Was hote, and he was well begone, And dwelt ferre out in an yle.-Id. Ib. b. v. Browne. The Shepherd's Pipe, Ec. 1. Begone, I will not heare thy vain excuse, But as thou lou'st thy life, make speed from hence. Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act iii. sc. i. Ungrateful wretch, begone, and no longer pollute my dwelling with thy baseness: begone, and never let me see thee again: go from my doors, and the only punishment I wish thee is an alarmed conscience, which will be a sufficient tormentor!-Goldsmith. Vicar of Wakefield, c. 15. BE-GRA'CED. Endowed with the rank, BE-LO'RDED. treated, addressed, as pos sessing the rank or title, of Grace or Lord. When you are begrac'd and belorded, and crouched and kneeled vnto, then find I small grace with our Irish borderers.-Hollinshed. Chronicles of Ireland, an. 1524. BE-GO'RED. Covered with gore, or slimy, clotted blood. On chief of sable (taken from the dame) A sucking babe (oh!) borne to bide mischaunce, excavate. 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, 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. So thou maist with thy past'rall minstrelsy BE-GRIME. To make grim; to smear with any thing dirty or sooty, and thus give a grim appearance; a fierce aspect. My name that was as fresk 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. Some there are, Great lords of counties, mighty men of war, Asie, Affrike, Europe, As ferre as stretcheth any grounde.-Gower. Con. A. b. vi. BE-GROWN. Covered over by the growth of any thing; any thing grown, sprung or sprouted up. BE-GRUDGE. A very old, and in speech a very common word. tune of another.) To grieve, fret, or repine (sub. at the good for And alle that helpen me to erye. oth' 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 Ploukman, p. 131. None will have cause to begrudge the beauty or height of corner stones, when beholding them to beare a double degree of weight in the building.-Standard of Equality, $25. BE-GUILE. BEGUILERS. BEGUILTY. }a To wile; to deceive, delude, to cheat, to ensnare. Selcouthly he endis the man that is falls, to Ryght as the gylour thorw gyle, by gelede man for mect And that wicked folk wymmen betraieth, Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 4044. For often he that will begile, Is guiled with the same guile. And thus the guiler is beguiled.-Gower. Con. A. b. vi. When we escape from a little wile, and know the beguiler, we thinke that we are beguiled alreadie with other greate wiles.-Golden Boke, c. 24. The knight was wroth to see his stroke beguild, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 11. Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrece. By easy commutations of publick penance for a private pecuniary mulet [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. 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. 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. viil. BE-HALF. For the part or share, or sake of any one. And therfore I conseille, that ye sende youre 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 Meliteur. Yet this I say in hir behalfe Sir Paris neede not to disdaine 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 defend herein the honour of our ancestors in the behalf of not any others whatsoever, I thought it my part and duty to 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 Cowper. Task, b. ij. BE-HANG. To append, to suspend, to place in a dependent position. Harke in your eare, my bedde fresh and gaie 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 R. Brunne, p. 329. fall, to bechance. |