BEARDED. What! Am I dared and bearded to my face? . BEARING.- For bearing, argument, and valour Goes foremost in report 1 Henry VI. i. 3. Much Ado, ii. 1. Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2. 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. With thy brave bearing should I be in love, But that thou art so fast mine enemy 2 Henry VI. v. 2. 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 Timon of Athens, ini. 5. She would have me as a beast: not that, I being a beast, she would have me. 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 ill. 2. V. I. Much Ado, i. 1. Love's L. Lost, i. 1. Mid. N. Dream, ii. 1. ii. 2. V. I. A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I saw V. I. I think he be transformed into a beast: For I can nowhere find him like a man As You Like It, ii. 7. . Vast confusion waits, As doth a raven on a sick-fallen beast Tam. of the Shrew, Induc. 1. 1 Henry IV. iii. 3. Henry V. iii. 7. Richard III. i. 2. He is indeed a horse; and all other jades you may call beasts . iv. 1. Romeo and Juliet, iii. 3. iii. 3. Timon of Athens, iv. 1. Thy wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast. O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. iv. 3. Julius Cæsar, ii. 2. iii. 2. Hamlet, i. 2. V. 2. King Lear. ii. 4. ni. 4. Othello, ii. 3. ii. 3. Meas. for Meas. i. 3. Richard II. iii. 3. Troi. and Cress. ii. 1. ii. I. If thou use to beat me, I will begin at thy heel, and tell what thou art by inches. 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! His quails ever Beat mine, inhooped, at odds. Titus Andron. iii. 2. Romeo and Juliet, ii. 5. King Lear, i. 4. Ant. and Cleo. ii. 3. ii. 3. iv. 5. BEATEN. - Is beaten black and blue, that you cannot see a white spot about her Merry Wives, iv. 5. Much Ado, v. 4. Macbeth, v. 6. BEATEN. - But, in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore? Hamlet, ii. 2. V. I. Winter's Tale, iv. 3. Hamlet, v. 1. Love's L. Lost, iv. 1. Your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating 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 . V. 2. 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. i. 3. Tempest, i. 2. Two Gen. of Verona, i. 3. She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won 1 Henry VI. v. 3. Say that upon the altar of her beauty You sacrifice your tears, your sighs What, have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty, To make thy riches pleasant iii. 1. iii. 1. Com. of Errors, ii. 1. ii. I. Exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December Since that my beauty cannot please his eye, I'll weep what's left away, and weeping die. ii. 1. iv. 2. Much Ado, i. 1. i. 1. ji. I. On my eyelids shall conjecture hang, To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm My beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born, And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy 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 What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty, As those two eyes become that heavenly face? iv. 5. iv. 1. V. 2. Love's L. Lost, ii. 1. ii. 1. iv. 1. iv. 1. iv. 3. iv. 3. iv. 3. iv. 3. iv. 3. V. 2. BEAUTY. It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads Like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty Tam. of the Shrew, v. 2. V. 2. All's Well, v. 3. As there is no true cuckold but calamity, so beauty's a flower Twelfth Night, i. 5. i. 5. 'T is beauty truly bent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet cunning hand laid on 1 will give out divers schedules of my beauty i. 5. i. 5. Though you were crowned The nonpareil of beauty. Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil i. 5. iii. 4. Winter's Tale, iv. 4. iv. 4. iv. 4. V. I. That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty. The Dauphin there, thy princely son, Can in this book of beauty read 'I love' 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 Beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough 1 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 The fairest hand I ever touched! O beauty, Till now I never knew thee! 2 Henry VI. i 33 Henry VI. i. 4. Richard III. i. 2. i. 2. ill. 7 iv. 4. Henry VIII. i. 4. iv. 2. Troi. and Cress. iii. 1. iii. 3. V. 2. Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! . Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun Romeo and Juliet, i. 1. i. 1. i. 1. i. 5 The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon. Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night 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 He hath a daily beauty in his life That makes me ugly. As I told you always, her beauty and her brain go not together. Let her beauty Look through a casement to allure false hearts Ant. and Cleo. ii. 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 BECHANCED. -That such a thing bechanced would make me sad. 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. A doubt In such a time nothing becoming you, Nor satisfying us . Faintness constraineth me To measure out my length on this cold 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 Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks Convey me to my bed, then to my grave iii. 1. ill. 2. iv. 1. As You Like It, iii. 5. 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 1 Henry IV. ii. 1. ii. 4. Romeo and Juliet, ii. 3. Nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle Macbeth, i. 6. Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down Cymbeline, ii. 2. Tempest, ii. 2. Mid. N. Dream, v. 1. Com. of Errors, i. 2. 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 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. 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 BEE. Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie. 'T is seldom when the bee doth leave her comb In the dead carrion Tam. of the Shrew, Induc. 2. What say you to a piece of beef and mustard? - A dish that I do love to feed on. iv. 3. I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit. Twelfth Night, i. 3. 1 Henry IV. iii. 3. Henry V. iii. 7. O, my sweet beef, I must still be good angel to thee Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef Beef-witted.-The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord! Troi. and Cress. ii. 1. BEELZEBUB. - 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 BEETLE. - Beetles black, approach not near; Worm nor snail, do no offence Twelfth Night, v. 1. . 2 Henry IV. ii. 2. 2 Henry VI. iv. 2. Othello, ii. 1. Mid. N. Dream, ii. 2. Meas. for Meas. iii. 1. 2 Henry IV. i. 2. BEETLE. -The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal Macbeth, iii. a. They are his shards, and he their beetle. Ant. and Cleo. iii. 2. Com. of Errors, i. 1. BEFORE. He that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate. He would mouth with a beggar, though she smelt brown bread and garlic Is not marriage honourable in a beggar? Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the Beggar? Pernicious and indubitate beggar Zenelophon . A beggar, that was used to come so smug upon the mart Now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered Thou mayst say, the king lies by a beggar, if a beggar dwell near him Whiles I am a beggar, I will rail And say there is no sin but to be rich Richard 11. v. 3. 2 Henry IV. i. 2. Macbeth, i. 3. Tempest, ii. 2. Meas. for Meas. iii. 2. Com, of Errors, iv. 4. Much A do, iii. 4. Love's L. Lost, i. 2. iv. I. "Mer. iv. I. Twelfth Night, iii. 1. Speak with me, pity me, open the door: A beggar begs that never begged before The adage must be verified, That beggars mounted run their horse to death A begging prince what beggar pities not? Speaking is for beggars; he wears his tongue in 's arms They passed by me As misers do by beggars A beggar's tongue Make motion through my lips! They are but beggars that can count their worth. Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut. What, ho! apothecary! I will choose Mine heir from forth the beggars of the world V. 3. 2 Henry IV. v. 3. 3 Henry VI. i. 4. Richard III. i. 4 i. 4. Troi. and Cress. iii. 3. iii. 3. Coriolanus, iii. 2. Romeo and Juliet, ii. 6. V. I. Timon of Athens, i. 1. i. 2. iii. 2. iv. 2. To show him what a beggar his heart is, Being of no power to make his wishes good He does deny him, in respect of his, What charitable men afford to beggars His poor self A dedicated beggar to the air When beggars die, there are no comets seen And our monarchs and outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I thank you Julius Cæsar, ii. 2. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? A beggar in his drink Could not have laid such terms upon his callat . Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave, And beggared yours for ever BEGGARLY. Methinks they are exceeding poor and bare, too beggarly BEGGAR-MAID. - When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid BEGGARY. Usurp the beggary he was never born to . Mourning for the death Of Learning, late deceased in beggary Being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned Othello, iv. 2. Cymbeline, iii. 6. Mer. of Venice, ii. 6. Macbeth, iii. 1. Ant. and Cleo. ii. 2. Henry IV. iv. 2. Romeo and Juliet, v. 1. ii. 1. Meas. for Meas. iii. 2. King John, ii. 1. Such precious deeds in one that promised nought But beggary and poor looks. BEGGED. - Youth is bought more oft than begged or borrowed |