BEAUTY [338].

If lusty love should go in quest of beauty,
Where should he find it fairer than in Blanch?

BEAUTY [531].

Ist Citizen. King John, Act ii. Sc. 1.

'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud;

BEAUTY [983].

York. 3rd Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 4.

Sits here, like beauty's child, whom nature gat
For men to see, and seeing wonder at.

BEAUTY (its power) [826].

Simonides. Pericles, Act ii. Sc. 2.

for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is . . . . than the force of honesty can transmute beauty into his likeness:

BEER [416].

Hamlet. Hamlet, Act iii. Sc. I.

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

BEETLE [798].

Prince Henry. 2nd Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 2.

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums
Hath rung night's yawning peal,

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's

In deepest consequence.

Banquo. Macbeth, Act i. Sc. 3.

BEGUILEMENTS [809].

And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense;

That keep the word of promise to our ear,

And break it to our hope.

Northumberland. Henry VIII., Act i. Sc. 1.

BEHAVIOUR (advice on) [815-16].

And these few precepts in thy memory

See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,

Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judge

ment.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Polonius. Hamlet, Act i. Sc.. 3.

BEHAVIOUR (advice on) [600].

Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels
Be sure you be not loose; for those you make
friends

And give your hearts to, when they once perceive
The least rub in your fortunes, fall away

Like water from ye, never found again

But where they mean to sink ye.

Buckingham. Henry VIII., Act ii. Sc. 1.

BEHAVIOUR (advice on) [612].

Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate

thee;

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,

To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not :
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
Thy God's, and truth's ;

Wolsey. Henry VIII., Act iii. Sc. 2.

Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.

BELIEF [812].

....

Countess. All's Well that Ends Well, Act i. Sc. I.

I might not this believe

Without the sensible and true avouch

BELL (tolling) [410].

. . . . a sullen bell,

Remember'd tolling a departing friend.

Northumberland. 2nd Henry IV., Act i. Sc. I.

BELLS (church) [214].

ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, Orlando. As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7.

Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh;

BELLS (jangling) [827].

Ophelia. Hamlet, Act iii. Sc. I.

BERMUDA [4].

From the still-vex'd Bermoothes,

BETTER DAYS [214].

Ariel. Tempest, Act i. Sc. 2.

we have seen better days,

Duke Senior. As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7.

BIRDS (imprisoned) [547].

. . imprisonment a pleasure;

Ay, such a pleasure as incaged birds
Conceive when after many moody thoughts
At last by notes of household harmony
They quite forget their loss of liberty.

King Henry. 3rd Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 6.

BLUNT FELLOW [857].

This is some fellow,

Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth

affect

A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb
Quite from his nature: he cannot flatter, he,
An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth!
An they will take it, so; if not, he's plain.
These kind of knaves I know, which in this plain-

ness

Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends

Than twenty silly ducking observants

That stretch their duties nicely.

Cornwall. King Lear, Act ii. Sc. 2.

BLUSH (modest) [628].

. . . with a blush

....

Modest as morning when she coldly eyes
The youthful Phoebus:

BLUSHING [138].

Eneas. Troilus and Cressida, Act i. Sc. 3.

I do betray myself with blushing.

BOASTER [646].

Armado. Love's Labour's Lost, Act i. Sc. 2.

to such as boasting show their scars A mock is due.

BOASTER [339].

Troilus. Troilus and Cressida, Act iv. Sc. 5.

Talks as familiarly of roaring lions

As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs!

BOASTER [270].

Bastard. King John, Act ii. Sc. I.

Is it possible he should know what he is, and be
that he is?

2nd Lord. All's Well that Ends Well, Act iv. Sc. I.

BOATING [782].

And we must take the current when it serves,

The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream
Left on your right hand brings you to the place.

BOATS [634].

Celia. As You Like It, Act iv. Sc. 3.

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw
deep.

Agamemnon. Troilus and Cresida, Act ii. Sc. 3.