! BELL-Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, She strike upon the bell You are pictures out of doors, Bells in your parlours, wild-cats in your kitchens BELLIES.- With hearts in their bellies no bigger than pins' heads BELLMAN. BELLOWED. BELLY He fastened on my neck, and bellowed out As he 'ld burst heaven - This whale, with so many tuns of oil in his belly My belly's as cold as if I had swallowed snowballs for pills I care not for my head fill my belly; one fruitful meal would set me to't And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined I am the fellow with the great belly, and he my dog. Hamlet, iii. 1. Othello, ii. 1. ii. 3. Ant. and Cleo. iii. 13. Meas. for Meas. iv. 3. As You Like It, i. 7. 2 Henry IV. i. 2. A white beard? a decreasing leg? an increasing belly? is not your voice broken? There was a time when all the body's members Rebelled against the belly BELONGINGS.-Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper BELOVED. When women cannot love where they're beloved. Full of noble device, of all sorts, and beloved enchantingly You shall be more beloving than beloved BE-MONSTER. Self-covered thing, for shame, Be-monster not thy feature i 2. iv. 3. Troi, and Cress. ii. 1. i. 1. King Lear, iii. 2. Cymbeline, ii. 1. Meas. for Meas. i. 1. Two Gen. of Verona, v. 4. Com. of Errors, v. 1. As You Like It, i. 1. Troi. and Cress. iv. 5. Ant. and Cleo. i. 2. King Lear, iv. 2. 2 Henry IV. v. 2. Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4. Stand so much on the new form, that they cannot sit at ease on the old bench Bend not all the harm upon yourself; Make those that do offend you suffer too Why do you bend such solemn brows on me? That same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre. How is 't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy? BENEDICK. — Here you may see Benedick the married man. Here dwells Benedick the married man! BENEDICTION. - Thou out of heaven's benediction comest To the warm sun! Her benefits are mightily misplaced Disable all the benefits of your own country, be out of love with your nativity possess I do beseech you, as in way of taste, To give me now a little benefit Since I could distinguish betwixt a benefit and an injury BE-NETTED. - Being thus be-netted round with villanies. -- BENEVOLENCE. Will be glad to do my benevolence to make atonement Daily new exactions are devised, As blanks, benevolences, and I wot not what BENISON. The bounty and the benison of heaven To boot, and boot. 1 Henry IV. i. 2. Much Ado, v. 1. V. I. Mer. of Venice, i. 3. King John, iv. 2. Julius Cæsar, i. 2. Hamlet, iii. 4. Much Ado, i. 1. V. I. King Lear, ii. 2. Winter's Tale, iv. 4. Meas. for Meas. iii. 1. BENT. It seems her affections have their full bent Two of them have the very bent of honour I see you all are bent To set against me for your merriment Let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. But gives all gaze and bent of amorous view If that thy bent of love be honourable, Thy purpose marriage Here give up ourselves, in the full bent To lay our service freely at your feet Twelfth Night, ii. 4. Winter's Tale, i. 2. Troi. and Cress. i. 3. iv. 5 Romeo and Juliet, ii. 2. As You Like It, i. 1. Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2. My chastity's the jewel of our house, Bequeathed down from many ancestors BESORT.-Such men as may besort your age, And know themselves and you. BESPICE. Mightst bespice a cup, To give mine enemy a lasting wink You were best to call them generally, man by man The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse When he is best, he is a little worse than a man And my name Be yoked with his that did betray the Best! Have I not here the best cards for the game, To win this easy match? 2 Henry V. iv. 3. Henry VI. iv. 7. King Lear, i. 4. Othello, i. 3. Troi. and Cress. ii. 2. Com. of Errors, iv. 3. Twelfth Night, iii. 3. Winter's Tale, i. 2. Meas. for Meas. v. 1. Mid. N. Dream, i. 2. V. J. Mer. of Venice, i. 2. If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows To know my deed, 't were best not know myself We have lost Best half of our affair King Lear, i. 2. i. 2. Othello, ii. This policy and reverence of age makes the world bitter to the best of our times BESTED. I never saw a fellow worse bested, Or more afraid to fight I will bestow a breakfast to make you friends Can you tell Where he bestows himself?. 3. BESTOWED. I would she had bestowed this dotage on me. Surely suit ill spent and labour ill bestowed. BESTOWING. -In bestowing madam, He was most princely BESTRIDE. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus Henry V. ii. T. Henry VIII. iv. z. BETEEM. That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Hamlet, i. 2. BETHUMPED, I was never so bethumped with words BETID. Not so much perdition as an hair Betid to any creature. Let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages long ago betid King John, ii. 1. Tempest, i. z. Richard 11. v. I. BETIMES. -Not to be abed after midnight is to be up betimes. Sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes For the most, become much more the better For being a little bad Better cheer may you have, but not with better heart It is thyself, mine own self's better part, Mine eye's clear eye I think him better than I say, And yet would herein others' eyes were worse He hath indeed better bettered expectation. It is proved already that you are little better than false knaves And when he is worst, he is little better than a beast The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction 111. I. As You Like It, ii. 7. True is it that we have seen better days, And have with holy bell been knolled to church. I am no child, no babe: Your betters have endured me say my mind What says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural Love sought is good, but given unsought is better The better for my foes and the worse for my friends. Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean What you do Still betters what is done Our country manners give our betters way Nay, but make haste; the better foot before Better far off than near, be ne'er the near. Now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked Poor Jack, farewell! I could have better spared a better man. ii. 7. iii. 2. Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 3. V. 1. Twelfth Night, i. 5. ii. 3. 111. I. V. 1. Winter's Tale, iv. 4. iv. 4. King John, i. 1. iv. 2. Richard II. v. 1. 1 Henry IV. i. 2. The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life 'Tis better said than done, my gracious lord His better doth not breathe upon the earth. I never looked for better at his hands Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content The lustre of the better yet to show, Shall show the better V. 4. V. 4. 3 Henry VI. iii. 2. Richard III. i. 2. iii. 5. Henry VIII. ii. 3. Troi. and Cress. i. 3. Coriolanus, ii. 3. Julius Cæsar, iv. 3. Better it is to die, better to starve, Than crave the hire which first we do deserve Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace T is better thee without than he within. iv. 3. Macbeth, iii. 2. iii. 4. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live Hamlet, ii. 2. Better thou Hadst not been born, than not to have pleased me better Striving to better, oft we mar what's well King Lear, i. 1. 1. 4. iii. 6. When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. He hath indeed better bettered expectation. All his lands and goods, Which I have bettered rather than decreased But since he is bettered, we have therefore odds. Much Ado, i. 1. Tam. of the Shrew, ii. 1. ERTTERING. — All dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife. Hamlet, v. 2. Tempest, i. 2. Hamlet, v. 2. Julius Cæsar, i. 2. Macbeth, wv. I. BEWARE Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee Hamlet, i. 3. O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster BEWITCHED. This man hath bewitched the bosom of my child I am bewitched with the rogue's company Othello, iii. 3. Mid. N. Dream, i. 1. Either she hath bewitched me with her words, Or nature makes me suddenly relent BEZONIAN. Great men oft die by vile bezonians 1 Henry IV. ii. 2. 1 Henry VI. iii. 3. Coriolanus, ii. 3. 2 Henry IV. v. 3. 2 Henry VI. iv, 1. Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 5. King John, ii. 1. Hamlet, ii. 1. BIAS. Thus the bowl should run, And not unluckily against the bias. - Twelfth Night, iv. 2. 2 Henry VI. i. 1. Richard II. i. 1. What he bids be done is finished with his bidding I shall not break your bidding, good my lord What he bids be done is finished with his bidding BI-FOLD authority! where reason can revolt without perdition. Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret Have not I An arm as big as thine? a heart as big? BIGGEN. As he whose brow with homely biggen bound I'll run away till I am bigger, but then I'll fight She comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. Thy words, I grant, are bigger, for I wear not My dagger in my mouth BILBOES, Methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes All's Well, ii. 5. Winter's Tale, ii. 3. Coriolanus, v. 4. Troi. and Cress. v. 2. As You Like It, ii. 1. Tam. of the Shrew, iii. z. Cymbeline, iv. 2. 2 Henry IV. iv. 5. Coriolanus, v. 3. Romeo and Juliet, i. 4. King Lear, iv. 6. Cymbeline, iv. 2. Merry Wives, v. 5. Hamlet, v. 2. We are likely to prove a goodly commodity, being taken up of these men's bills When shall we go to Cheapside and take up commodities upon our bills? . Merry Wives, ii. 1. iii. 3. Mid. N. Dream, i. 2. 2 Henry VI. iv. 7. Meas. for Meas. iv. 3. Henry V. iii. Prol. BILLOW. - Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads 2 Henry IV, iii, 1. BIND. - Fast bind, fast find; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind BIRCH. -As fond fathers, Having bound up the threatening twigs of birch A schoolboy, who, being overjoyed with finding a bird's nest And show the world what the bird hath done to her own nest When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring Othello, ii. 1. Mer. of Venice, ii. 5. Richard III. v. 3. . Meas. for Meas. i. 3. Much Ado, i. 1. ii. 1. Love's L. Lost, i. 1. i. 1. V. 2. Mid. N. Dream, iii. 1. V. I. As You Like It, iv. 1. Twelfth Night, iv. 2. BIRD. 1 Henry IV. V. I. 2 Henry VI. ii. 1. 3 Henry VI. iii. 3. As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird, Useth the sparrow 'T is but a base ignob e mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar For both of you are birds of selfsame feather Such a pleasure as incaged birds Conceive iv. 6. v. 6. The bird that hath been limed in a bush, With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush Nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle The poor wren, The most diminutive of birds, will fight And what will you do now? How will you live?— As birds do, mother Poor bird! thou 'ldst never fear the net nor lime, The pitfall nor the gin The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage If she be furnished with a mind so rare, She is alone the Arabian bird BIRD-BOLT.-Thou hast thumped him with thy bird-bolt under the left pap BIENAM. Until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come. I pray you, dissuade him from her: she is no equal for his birth Call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth? By birth a pediar, by education a card-maker. She is as forward of her breeding as She is i' the rear our birth If love ambitious sought a match of birth At thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune joined to make thee great Feared by their breed and famous by their birth iii. 1. iv. 4. Macbeth, i. 6. ii. 3. iv. 2. iv. 2. iv. 2. Hamlet, i. 1. ii. 4. King Lear, v. 3. Cymbeline, i. 6. iv. 2. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. V. 5. V. 5. Merry Wives, v. 5. Tam. of the Shrew, Induc. 2. At my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward At your birth Our grandam earth, having this distemperature, In passion shook . Ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, To make a hazard of new fortunes King John, ii, 1. BISCUIT. As dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage. As You Like It, ii. 7. Troi. and Cress. ii. 1. Hamlet, ii. 2. Coriolanus, ii. 1. Meas. for Meas. i. 3. Love's L. Lost, i. 1. Tam. of the Shrew, iii. 2. Henry V. iv. 2. He would pun thee into shivers with his fist, as a sailor breaks a biscuit. In their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit Lies foul with chewed grass BITE. - Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? — I do bite my thumb, sir |