Chapter Badinguet to Baker of B by Brewer's Readers Handbook

you as a king.” So saying, he ordered his chains to be struck off, gave him one of the royal tents, and promised to restore him to his throne if he would lay aside his hostility. Bajazet abused this noble generosity; plotted the assassination of Tamerlane; and bow-strung Moneses. Finding clemency of no use, Tamerlane commanded him to be used “as a dog, and to be chained in a cage like a wild beast.”—Rowe: Tamerlane (a tragedy, 1702).

This was one of the favourite parts of Spranger Barry (1719–1777) and of J. Kemble (1757–1823).

Bajazet, a black page at St. James’s Palace.—Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.).

Bajura, Mahomet’s standard.

Baker (The), and the “Baker’s Wife.” Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette were so called by the revolutionary party, because on the 6th October, 1789, they ordered a supply of bread to be given to the mob which surrounded the palace at Versailles, clamouring for bread.