Chapter Boaz and Jachin to Bold Stroke for a Wife of B by Brewer's Readers Handbook

So hardy, great and strong.
That after of that name it to an adage grew,
If any man himself adventurous happed to shew,
“Bold Beauchamp” men him termed, if none so bold
as he.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, xviii. (1613).

A similar story is told of the captal de Buch, who, with forty followers, cleared Meaux of La Jacquerie, 7000 of whom were either slain or trampled to death (1358).

Bold Stroke for a Husband, a comedy by mrs. Cowley. There are two plots: one a bold stroke to get the man of one’s choice for a husband, and the other a bold stroke to keep a husband. Olivia de Zuniga fixed her heart on Julio de Melesina, and refused or disgusted all suitors till he came forward. Donna Victoria, in order to keep a husband, disguised herself in man’s apparel, assumed the name of Florio, and made love as a man to her husband’s mistress. She contrived by an artifice to get back an estate which don Carlos had made over to his mistress, and thus saved her husband from ruin (1782).

Bold Stroke for a Wife. Old Lovely, at death, left his daughter Anne £30,000, but with this proviso, that she was to forfeit the money if she married without the consent of her guardians. Now, her guardians were four in number, and their characters so widely different that “they never agreed on any one thing.” They were sir Philip Modelove, an old beau; Mr. Periwinkle, a silly virtuoso; Mr. Tradelove, a broker on Change; and Mr. Obadiah Prim, a hypocritical quaker. Colonel Feignwell contrived to flatter all the guardians to the top of their bent, and won the heiress.—Mrs. Centlivre (1717).