BEAR.

In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Mid. N. Dream, v. 1. For my part, I had rather bear with you than bear you.

As You Like It, ii. 4.

I should bear no cross if I did bear you, for I think you have no money in your purse.
Pants and looks pale, as if a bear were at his heels

Our arms, like to a muzzled bear, Save in aspect, hath all offence sealed up

I am as melancholy as a gib cat or a lugged bear

Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth of a Russian bear!

Are these thy bears? we'll bait thy bears to death

Or as a bear, encompassed round with dogs

Or an unlicked bear-whelp That carries no impression like the dam

You mean, to bear me, not to bear with me.

Valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant

11. 4.

Twelfth Night, iii. 4. King John, ii. 1. Henry IV. i. 2. Henry V. iii. 7. .2 Henry VI. v. 1. .3 Henry VI. ii. 1.

iii. 2. Richard III, iii. 1. Troi. and Cress. i. 2.

He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.-He's a bear indeed, that lives like a lamb Coriolanus, ¡¡. 1.

So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone.

Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros

I cannot fly, But, bear-like, I must fight the course.

Julius Cæsar, i. 2.
Macbeth, iii. 4.

v. 7.

Hamlet, ii. 1. King Lear, iii. 1.

Makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of
This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch
Whose reverence even the head-lugged bear would lick, Most barbarous, most degenerate! iv. 2.
An admirable musician: O! she will sing the savageness out of a bear
BEARD.

His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops From eaves of reeds
Does he not wear a great round beard, like a glover's paring-knife?
A little wee face, with a little yellow beard, a Cain-coloured beard.

I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face.

Othello, iv. 1. Tempest, v. 1.

ii. 1. iii. 2.

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man
Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard.
God's blessing on your beard! - Good sir, be not offended

. Love's L. Lost, ii. 1.

A beard, fair health, and honesty; With three-fold love I wish you all these three
You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me

V. 2.

What a beard hast thou got!.

Wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars
Stroke your chins, and swear by your beards that I am a knave.

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances
Is his head worth a hat, or his chin worth a beard? - Nay, he hath but a little beard
A beard neglected, which you have not; but I pardon you for that
Now, Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard!

Where

you will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard

The hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard King John, ii. 1. Thy father's beard is turned white with the news.

Have you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a yellow cheek? a white beard?
Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touched.

1 Henry IV. ii. 4.

2 Henry IV. i. 2.

iv. 1. V. 3.

'Tis merry in hall when beards wag all, And welcome merry Shrove-tide Do what thou darest; I beard thee to thy face.

If e'er again I meet him beard to beard, He's mine, or I am his

1 Henry VI. i. 3. Coriolanus, i. 10.

ii. 1.

ii. I.

iv. 3.

Macbeth, i. 3.

When you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the wagging of your beards
Your beards deserve not so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's cushion.
You had more beard when I last saw you; but your favour is well approved by your tongue.
You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so .
We might have met them dareful, beard to beard, And beat them backward home

His beard was grizzled, no?-It was, as I have seen it in his life

The satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards

His beard was as white as snow, All flaxen was his poll

That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime
Spare my grey beard, you wagtail?.

Follow thou the wars; defeat thy favour with an usurped beard
Were I the wearer of Antonius' beard I would not shave 't to-day.
BEARDED. A soldier Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard.

Give back affairs and their dispatch With such a smooth, discreet, and stable bearing Twelfth Night, iv. 3. Either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases.

. 2 Henry IV. v. 1.

Timon of Athens, ii. 5.

With thy brave bearing should I be in love, But that thou art so fast mine enemy 2 Henry VI. v. 2.
If there be Such valour in the bearing, what make we Abroad?
Scaling his present bearing with his past.

BEAR-LIKE. — I cannot fly, But, bear-like, I must fight the course

BEAST. It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love

Correction and instruction must both work Ere this rude beast will profit
Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts

She would have me as a beast: not that, I being a beast, she would have me
In sport and life-preserving rest To be disturbed, would mad or man or beast
A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours
About the sixth hour; when beasts most graze, birds best peck.

And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.

I am as ugly as a bear; For beasts that meet me run away for fear
Here come two noble beasts in, a man and a lion

Coriolanus, ii. 3.
Macbeth, v. 7.

Merry Wives, i. 1.
Meas. for Meas. iii. 2.
Com. of Errors, ii. 2.

iii. 2.

V. I.

Much Ado, i. 1.

Love's L. Lost, i. 1. Mid. N. Dream, ii. 1.

ii. 2.

V. 1.

A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. - The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I saw V. I. When he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

Mer, of Venice, i. 2.
I think he be transformed into a beast: For 1 can nowhere find him like a man As You Like It, ii. 7.
Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.
O monstrous beast! how like a swine he lies!

Vast confusion waits, As doth a raven on a sick-fallen beast
Which art a lion and a king of beasts. - A king of beasts, indeed
Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art a beast to say otherwise.
He is indeed a horse; and all other jades you may call beasts
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity

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V. 4.

Tam. of the Shrew, Induc. 1.

King John, iv. 3.

Richard II. v. 1.

1 Henry IV. iii. 3.

Henry V. iii. 7. Richard III. i. 2.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. - Pray you, who does the wolf love? Coriolanus, ii. 1. The beast with many heads butts me away

iv. 1.

Romeo and Juliet, iii. 3.

iii. 3.

Timon of Athens, iv. 1.

iv. 3

iv. 3.

Thy wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast.
Unseemly woman in a seeming man! Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!
He shall find The unkindest beast more kinder than mankind
Wouldst thou have thyself fall in the confusion of men, and remain a beast with the beasts?.
That beasts May have the world in empire!
They could not find a heart within the beast

O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason
A beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourned longer
Let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the king's, mess.
Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life 's as cheap as beast's
Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool
With joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!
BEAT.

The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum
I'll give thee scope to beat, Since foes have scope to beat both thee and me
Thou vinewedst leaven, speak: I will beat thee into handsomeness

If thou use to beat me, I will begin at thy heel, and tell what thou art by inches
When thy poor heart beats with outrageous beating.

What a head have I ! It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces

Beat at this gate, that let thy folly in, And thy dear judgement out!

Of that natural luck, He beats thee 'gainst the odds.

His quails ever Beat mine, inhooped, at odds BEATEN. Is beaten black and blue, that you cannot see a white spot about her Merry Wives, iv. 5. Black and blue? I was beaten myself into all the colours of the rainbow If a man will be beaten with brains, a' shall wear nothing handsome about him Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night, Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight

Much Ado, v. 4.
Macbeth, v. 6.

BEATEN.

BEATING.

But, in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?

For still 't is beating in my mind, your reason For raising this sea-storm. Do not infest your mind with beating on The strangeness of this business

Hamlet, ii. 2.
Tempest, i. 2.

V. I.

Winter's Tale, iv. 3.

Hamlet, v. 1.

Love's L. Lost, iv. 1.

V. 2.

BEAUTEOUS.-How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in 't! Tempest, v. 1.
True, that thou art beauteous; truth itself, that thou art lovely.
Beauteous as ink; a good conclusion. Fair as a text B in a copy-book
Or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish
BEAUTIES no richer than rich taffeta.

BEAUTIFIED. Seeing you are beautified With goodly shape

That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase; 'beautified' is a vile phrase BEAUTIFUL. Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful

I have loved her ever since I saw her; and still I see her beautiful
Far more beautiful Than any woman in this waning age

King John, iv. 2.
Love's L. Lost, v. 2.

Two Gen. of Verona, iv. 1.
Hamlet, ii. 2.

Mid. N. Dream, iii. 1.
Two Gen. of Verona, ii. 1
Tam. of the Shrew, Induc. 2.

Romeo and Juliet, iii. 2.

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won 1 Henry VI. v. 3.
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feathered raven!
BEAUTIFY. This unbound lover, To beautify him, only lacks a cover.
BEAUTY. He's something stained With grief, that's beauty's canker.
Shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away
So painted, to make her fair, that no man counts of her beauty.
I mean that her beauty is exquisite, but her favour infinite
Then let her beauty be her wedding-dower.

Say that upon the altar of her beauty You sacrifice your tears, your sighs
Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness
What, have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty
Thou hast the right arched beauty of the brow that becomes the ship-tire
These black masks Proclaim an enshield beauty.

Merry Wives, ii. 1. iii. 3.

Meas. for Meas. ii. 4.

Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty, To make thy riches pleasant
The goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty brief in goodness.
Hath homely age the alluring beauty took From my poor cheek?

I see the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty

ii. 1. iii. I.

Com. of Errors, ii. 1.

ii. 1.

ii. 1.

iv. 2.

Since that my beauty cannot please his eye, I'll weep what's left away, and weeping die
First he did praise my beauty, then my speech

Exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December
Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite of beauty.

For beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.

On my eyelids shall conjecture hang, To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm
Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty?

Much Ado, i. 1.

My beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, Not uttered by base sale of chapmen's tongues
My beauty will be saved by merit! O heresy in fair, fit for these days!
Shall I teach you to know?- Ay, my continent of beauty

Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born, And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy
Where is a book? That I may swear beauty doth beauty lack

Have found the ground of study's excellence Without the beauty of a woman's face.
For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?.
Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes Of beauty's tutors have enriched you with
A light condition in a beauty dark. - We need more light to find your meaning out.
The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt
Look on beauty, And you shall see 't is purchased by the weight
The beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty.

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

For honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar

I saw sweet beauty in her face, Such as the daughter of Agenor had

Praised in every town, Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded

V. 2.

Mid. N. Dream, v. 1. Mer. of Venice, ni. 2. iii. 2.

As You Like It, 1. 3. 11. 3. Tam. of the Shrew, i. 1. ii. 1.

What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty, As those two eyes become that heavenly face? iv. 5.

BEAUTY.

It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads

Like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty
Whose beauty did astonish the survey Of richest eyes

As there is no true cuckold but calamity, so beauty 's a flower
Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty!

Tam. of the Shrew, v. 2.

V. 2.

All's Well, v. 3.

Twelfth Night, i. 5.

'T is beauty truly bent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet cunning hand laid on I will give out divers schedules of my beauty

Though you were crowned The nonpareil of beauty

i. 5.

5.

6

Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil
Their transformations Were never for a piece of beauty rarer

111.

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Winter's Tale, iv 4.

iv. 4.

iv. 4.

That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.
I'll have thy beauty scratched with briers, and made More homely
Your verse Flowed with her beauty once: 't is shrewdly ebbed.

And as sorry Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty

The Dauphin there, thy princely son, Can in this book of beauty read I love
She in beauty, education, blood, Holds hand with any princess of the world
O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!
Leaves behind a stain Upon the beauty of all parts besides

Old age, that ill layer up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face

V. I.

V. I.

King John, ii. 1. ii. 1. iv. 3.

1 Henry IV. iii. 1. Henry V. v. 2.

Beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough Henry VI. v. 3.

Could I come near your beauty with my nails.
'T is beauty that doth oft make women proud
Your beauty, which did haunt me in my sleep.
These eyes could never endure sweet beauty's wreck

A beauty-waning and distressed widow, Even in the afternoon of her best days
O, let her live, And I'll corrupt her manners, stain her beauty.

2 Henry VI. i 3. 3 Henry VI. i. 4. . Richard III. i. 2.

i. 2.

iii. 7.

iv. 4.

Henry VIII. i. 4.

iv. 2.

The fairest hand I ever touched! O beauty, Till now I never knew thee!
For virtue and true beauty of the soul, For honesty and decent carriage.
The mortal Venus, the heart-blood of beauty, love's invisible soul.
The beauty that is borne here in the face The bearer knows not
If beauty have a soul, this is not she

Troi. and Cress. iii. 1.

iii. 3.

V. 2.

Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun Romeo and Juliet, i. 1.
O she is rich in beauty, only poor, That when she dies with beauty dies her store
For beauty starved with her severity Cuts beauty off from all posterity

Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night
Beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks.

i. 5. V. 3.

The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon .

The beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!

Hamlet, i. 3. ii. 2. iii. I.

If you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit ro discourse to your beauty
The power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is

If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.
As having sense of beauty, do omit Their mortal natures

He hath a daily beauty in his life That makes me ugly.

Whose beauty claims No worse a husband than the best of men

As I told you always, her beauty and her brain go not together.

Let her beauty Look through a casement to allure false hearts

1.

Othello, i. 3. ii. . V. 1.

Ant. and Cleo. ii. 2. Cymbeline, i. 2. ii. 4.

1 Henry IV. iv, 1. Hamlet, i. 2.

BEAVER. I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs
Saw you not his face?-O yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up
BECAUSE.-Wherefore not a field? - Because not there: this woman's answer sorts Troi. & Cress, i. 1.

BECHANCED. That such a thing bechanced would make me sad.
BECOME them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.
Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none

Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh, To weep.

BECOMING.- My becomings kill me, when they do not Eye well to you

BECOMING.
BED.-

A doubt In such a time nothing becoming you, Nor satisfying us

- My bosom, as a bed, Shall lodge thee till thy wound be thoroughly healed I was in love with my bed: I thank you, you swinged me for my love Go to bed when she list, rise when she list, all is as she will.

One that thinks a man always going to bed and says, 'God give you rest?'

Call at all the alehouses, and bid those that are drunk get them to bed
Never rest, But seek the weary beds of people sick
One heart, one bed, two bosoms, and one troth

What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

.

Cymbeline, iv. 4.

Two Gen, of Ver. i. 2. ii. 1. Merry Wives, ii. 2. Com. of Errors, iv. 3.

Faintness constraineth me To measure out my length on this cold bed
Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed, While I thy amiable cheeks do coy
I see no more in you Than without candle may go dark to bed

To be up after midnight and to go to bed then, is early
To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes

Do not think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed: I know I can do it
Big enough for the bed of Ware in England

Convey me to my bed, then to my grave

Much Ado, iii. 3.

Love's L. Lost, v. 2. Mid. N. Dream, ii. 2.

As You Like It, iii. 5.
Twelfth Night, ii. 3.

ii. 3. ii. 3.

11. 2.

King John, iii. 4.
Richard II. ii. 1.
Henry IV. ii. 1.

Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks

Time enough to go to bed with a candle, I warrant thee

What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight?

It argues a distempered head So soon to bid good-morrow to thy bed
Nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle Macbeth, i. 6.
I have known those which have walked in their sleep who have died holily in their beds
What's done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed!

Romeo and Juliet, ii. 3.

V. I.
V. 1.

Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down
His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift

How bravely thou becomest thy bed, fresh lily, And whiter than the sheets! BEDAZZLED.- My mistaking eyes, That have been so bedazzled with the sun Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 5. BEDFELLOWS. — Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows BED-TIME.-This long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bed-time Mid. N. Dream, v. 1. I'll meet with you upon the mart, And afterward consort you till bed-time.

I would 't were bed-time, Hal, and all well .

Com. of Errors, i. 2.

1 Henry IV. v. 1. Troi, and Cress. i. 3. Tempest, v. 1.

BEDWARD.-As merry as when our nuptial day was done, And tapers burned to bedward Coriolanus, i.6. BED-WORK. They call this bed-work, mappery, closet-war

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BEE. - Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie.
The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees

'T is seldom when the bee doth leave her comb In the dead carrion
Like the bee, culling from every flower The virtuous sweets.
We bring it to the hive, and, like the bees, Are murdered for our pains
Some say the bee stings: but I say, 't is the bee's wax

We'll follow where thou lead'st, Like stinging bees in hottest summer's day
But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees, And leave them honeyless.
BEEF. If you give me any conserves, give me conserves of beef

What say you to a piece of beef and mustard? — A dish that I do love to feed on.
I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

O, my sweet beef, I must still be good angel to thee

Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef

Twelfth Night, i. 3. 1 Henry IV. iii. 3. Henry V. iii. 7.

BEEF-WITTED.-The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord! Troi. and Cress. ii. 1. BEELZEBUB.

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He holds Belzebub at the staves's end.

Knock, knock, knock!

Who's there in the name of Beelzebub?.

BEER. - Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer?

By my troth, I do now remember the poor creature, small beer

I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common
To do what? To suckle fools and chronicle small beer

BEETLE. Beetles black, approach not near; Worm nor snail, do no offence
The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang
If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle