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BOOKS-BORROWED.

BOOKS.-Shall we not believe books in print?

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-The Night Walker,

Act III. Scene 4.

Books cannot always please, however good;
Minds are not ever craving for their food.

CRABBE-The Borough, Letter 24.

BO-PEEP.-Where are you? I' troth she's in love with me, as I fancy; the roguish one's playing bo-peep.

RILEY'S PLAUTUS.-The Rudens, Vol. II. Act II.

Scene 7.

[Both Horace and Virgil mention the game of hiding or bo-peep, as a favourite one with the girls of their day.RILEY. Supra, in notis.]

BOOTS.-Proteus. Nay, give me not the boots.
Valentine. No, I will not, for it boots thee not.

SHAKSPERE. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I.
Scene 1.

BORN.-I was born, sir, when the crab was ascending, and all my affairs go backward.

CONGREVE.-Love for Love, Act II. Scene 1.

Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.

FOOTE. The Author, Act II.

Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred,
Promoted thence to deck her mistress' head.
BYRON. A Sketch, Line 1.

Born not for ourselves, but for our friends,
Our country, and our glory.

RANDOLPH.-The Muses' Looking-glass, Act III.
Scene 1.

Time, Place, and Action, may with pains be wrought,
But genius must be born; and never can be taught.
DRYDEN.-To Congreve, on the Double Dealer.

Born of one mother, in one happy mould,
Born at one burden in one happy morn.

SPENSER-Faerie Queen, Book IV. Canto II.
Stanza 41.

BORROWED.-The borrow'd Majesty of England. SHAKSPERE.-King John, Act I. Scene 1. (Chatillon to the King.)

BORROWER-Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 3.
(Polonius to Laertes.)

BOSOM.-My bosom's lord sits lightly on his throne. SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act V. Scene 1. (Romeo to himself.)

BOUNDS.-Who shut up the sea with doors, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.

JOB.-Chap. XXXVIII. Verses 8-11.

Thou hast set them their bounds, which they shall not pass : neither turn again to cover the earth.

PSALM CIV. Verse 9.

Fear ye not me? Will ye not tremble at my presence? which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea.

JEREMIAH.-Chap. V. Verse 22.

The firstè Mover of the cause above,

When he first made the fairè chain of love.
Great was th' effect, and high was his intent;
Well wist he why, and what thereof he meant ;
For with that fairè chain of love he bond
The fire, the air, the water, and the lond
In certain bondès, that they may not flee.

CHAUCER.-The Knight's Tale, Line 2989.

BOUNTIES.-And can eternity belong to me,
Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
YOUNG.-Night I. Line 64.

BOUNTY.—My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep, the more I give to thee

The more I have, for both are infinite.

SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2. (Juliet to Romeo.)

Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely.

GOLDSMITH.-The Good-natured Man, Act III.

BOWL.-Around whose lips ivy twines on high.

BANKS' THEOCRITUS.-Idyll I. Verse 23.

BOWL.-And in this bowl, where wanton ivy twines,
And swelling clusters bend the curling vines,
Four figures rising from their work appear,
The various seasons of the rolling year.

POPE.-Pastoral, Spring, Line 35.

BOXES-And about his shelves

A beggarly account of empty boxes.

SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act V. Scene 1. (Romeo, solus.)

BOY.--Ah! happy years! once more, who would not be a boy? BYRON.-Childe Harold, Canto II, Stanza 23.

Yet who would be a boy, a girl again?

JAMES MONTGOMERY.-The
Canto 7.

I was the boy for bewitching 'em.

Pelican Island,

KENNEY.-A Song in the opera of Matrimony,
Act II. Scene 1.

BRAIN.-Thy commandment all alone shall live
Within the book and volume of my brain,

Unmix'd with baser matter.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5. (Hamlet, obedient to his father's command.)

The times have been,

That when the brains were out the man would die,

And there an end.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act III. Scene 4.
(Macbeth, at sight of Banquo's ghost.)

BRAINS.-An excellent scholar: One that hath a head fill'd with calves' brains without any sage in them.

WEBSTER.-The White Devil, Act I. Scene 1.

Cudgel thy brains no more about it; for your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1. (First
Clown to the second Clown.)

BRAVE.-How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!

COLLINS.-Ode written in 1746.

Brav'd in mine own house with a skein of thread!

SHAKSPERE. Taming of the Shrew, Act IV.
Scene 3. (Petruchio to the Tailor.)

BREACH.-Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once

more:

Or close the wall up with our English dead!

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry V. Act III. Scene 1. (The King and his army before Harfleur.)

BREAD.-Thou shalt by trial know what bitter fare
Is others' bread;-how hard the path to go
Upward and downward by another's stair.

DANTE.-Paradiso, Canto XVII. Line 58.
(Wright.)

Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.

ECCLESIASTES.-Chap. XI. Verse 1.

BREAKFAST.-Their breakfast so warm, to be sure they did

eat,

A custom in travellers mighty discreet.

PRIOR.-Downhall, a ballad.

And then to breakfast with what appetite you have.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII., Act III. Scene 2. (The King to his Lords, but frowning at Wolsey.)

1. Is breakfast ready, mine host?

2. It is, my little Hebrew.

ANONYMOUS.-The Merry Devil of Edmonton.
Last Scene.

BRIEF-Brevity is the soul of wit.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2.
(Polonius to the King and Queen.)

Brief, boy, brief!

FLETCHER.-The Woman Hater, Act I. Scene 2.

1. "Tis brief, my lord,

2. As woman's love.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2.
(Hamlet and Ophelia at the Play.)

We must be brief when traitors brave the field.

SHAKSPERE.-King Richard III. Act IV. Scene 3. (Richard to Ratcliffe.)

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BRITAIN-BUILDING.

BRITAIN. But Britain, changeful as a child at play,
Now calls in princes, and now turns away;
Now Whig, now Tory, what we lov'd we hate;
Now all for pleasure, now for Church or State;
Now for Prerogative, and now for Laws;

Effects unhappy! from a noble cause.

POPE.-To Augustus, Epi. I. Line 155.

BROOKS.-Such Brooks are welcome to me that o'erflow such

liquor.

SHAKSPERE.-Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II.

Scene 2. (Falstaff's play on the name of Master
Brooks.)

BRUTUS.-Brutus is an honourable man,
So are they all, all honourable men.

SHAKSPERE.-Julius Cæsar, Act III Scene I. (Mark Anthony's oration on Cæsar's death.) BUBBLES.-Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. III. Line 19.

The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
And these are of them.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act I. Scene 3.

(Banquo to Macbeth when the Witches vanished.)

BUCK.-A buck of the first head.

SHAKSPERE.-Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV.
Scene 2. (Sir Nathaniel to Holofernes.)

BUILDING.-Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. ST. LUKE, Chap. XIV. Verses 28, 29, 30.

When we mean to build,

We first survey the plot, then draw the model;

And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection :
Which if we find outweighs ability,

What do we then, but draw anew the model
In fewer offices; or, at least, desist

To build at all?

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part II. Act I. Scene 3. (Lord Bardolph urging caution before hazarding a battle.)