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Bianca, the younger daughter of Baptista of Padua, as gentle and meek as her sister Katherine was violent and irritable. As it was not likely any one would marry Katherine “the shrew,” the father resolved that Bianca should not marry before her sister. Petruchio married “the shrew,” and then Lucentio married Bianca.—Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew (1594).

Bianca, a courtezan, the “almost” wife of Cassio. Iago, speaking of the lieutenant, says—

And what was he?
Forsooth, a great arithmetician,
One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,
A fellow almost damn’d in a fair wife.
   —Shakespeare: Othello, act i. sc. 1 (1611).

Bianca, wife of Fazio. When her husba nd wantons with the marchioness Aldabella, Bianca, out of jealousy, accuses him to the duke of Florence of being privy to the death of Bartoldo, an old miser. Fazio being condemned to death, Bianca repents of her rashness, and tries to save her husband, but not succeeding, goes mad and dies.—Dean Milman: Fazio (1815).

Bibbet (Master), secretary to major-general Harrison, one of the parliamentary commissioners.—Sir W. Scott: Wood-stock (time, Commonwealth).

“Bible” Butler, alias Stephen Butler, grandfather of Reuben Butler the presbyterian minister (married to Jeanie Deans).—Sir W. Scott: Heart of Midlothian (time, George II.).

Bible in Spain (The), a prose work by George Borrow (1844), giving graphic pictures of high, middle, and low life in Spain.