Chapter BED to BIBLE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

BED to BIBLE

BED.—Who goes to bed, and doth not pray,
Maketh two nights to every day.

George Herbert.—The Temple; Charms and Knots.

Moss bestrowed
Must be their bed; their pillow was unsewed.

Spenser.—The Fairy Queen, Book VI. Chap. IV. Stanza 14.

BEE.—Where the bee sucks, there luck I.

Shakespeare.—Tempest, Act V. Scene I. (A Song.)

BEES.—So work the honey bees;
Creatures that, by a rule in nature, teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom.

Shakespeare.—King Henry V. Act I. Scene 2. (Canterbury.)

He turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the carcase.

Judges.—Chap. XIV. Verse 8; and see Davidson’s Virgil, by Buckley, Georgic IV. ’Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb in the dead carrion.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part II. Act IV. Scene 4. (The King to Warwick.)

BEGGAR.—A beggar begs that never begged before.

Shakespeare.—King Richard II. Act V. Scene 3. (The Duchess to Bolingbroke.)

Moody beggars, starving for a time
Of pell-mell havock and confusion.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act V. Scene 1. (The King to Warwick.)

For her own person,
It beggar’d all description.

Shakespeare.—Anthony and Cleopatra, Act II. Scene 2. (Enobarbus to Agrippa.)

BEGINNING.—He has half the deed done, who has made a beginning.

Horace.—By Smart, Book I. Epistle 2.

The mind must be excited to make a beginning.

Seneca.

The true beginning of our end.

Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Scene I. (Enter Prologue.)

The beginning of the end.

Talleyrand.

BELIEF.—This would not be believ’d in Venice, though I should swear I saw ’t.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act IV. Scene I. (Lodovico to Othello.)

I’ll believe both;
And what does else want credit, come to me,
And I’ll be sworn ’tis true.