GLOSSARY, 337 
Basilisk, sb. A fabulous creature described by Pliny (viii. 33, xxix. 19) asa 
serpent, of which many marvels are told; p. 200, |. 30, note; p. 262, |. 32. 
Battle, sb. A body of troops: p. 71, 1. 30. * They were more ignorant 
in ranging and arraying their battailes,’ Essay viii. p. 237. 
Be, 3 plu. Are: p. Io, 1. 17; p. 23,1. 53 p. 50, 1. 23. In the phrase 
‘had been to handle’; p. 185, 1. 16. 
Because, conj. In order that; p. 228, 1.13. See Matt. xx. 31. 
Become, used reflexively, p. 216, 1. 30, ‘Can neither become themselves’ 
=can neither act in a graceful or becoming manner,’ 
Beholding, part. Beholden, indebted: p. 104, 1. 30. ‘ The stage is more 
beholding to love, then the life of man.’ Essay x. p. 36. 
Bent, adj. Crooked, twisted; and so, sinister: p. 25, 1. 2. 
Besides, prep. Beside: p. 12, 1. 32; p. 159, 1. 23. 
Bird-witted, adj. Incapable of fixed attention, volatile: p. 183, lL 14. 
Blanch, v.¢. To flinch from, avoid: p. 182, 1. 21. ‘Some are never 
without a difference, and commonly by amusing men with a subtilty, 
blanch the matter.’ Essay xxvi. p. 105, |, 12. 
Blasphemy, sb. In its literal sense of defamation or slander: p, 17, 1. 15. 
Compare the use of ‘ blaspheme’ in Shakespeare, Macbeth, iv. 3. 108: 
‘Since that the truest issue of thy throne 
By his own interdiction stands accursed, 
And does blaspheme his breed,’ 
Blemish, v.z. To stigmatize: p. 27, 1. 28. 
Blow up, v.¢. To inflate: p. 7,1. 20. 
Blown up, p~.p. Inflated: p. 39, 1. 25. 
Bond-woman, sb. A female slave: p. 43, l. 25. 
Borne out, ~.~. Compensated for; p. 19, 1. 12. 
Bounden, 7.p. Bound, indebted: p. 268, 1. 28. 
Braver, adj. Finer, more beautiful: p. 216, 1. ro. 
‘The Duke of Milan 
And his more braver daughter could control thee? 
Shakespeare, Tempest, i. 2. 439, 
Break, v.¢. To train: p. 197, 1. 12. Still used of horses. 
‘Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute?’ 
Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, ii. 1. 148. 
Briber, sb. A taker of bribes: p. 222, 1. 25. 
Brittany, sb. Britain: p. 93,1.14; p. 94, ll. 12, 17; p. 264, 1. 26. In 
the first and last of these passages the word is spelt ‘ Brittanie’ in ed. 
1605. On the other hand, what we call ‘ Brittany’ is uniformly, I believe, 
called ‘ Britaine’ in Bacon’s Hist. of Hen. VII. 
Broken, p.p. Trained: p. 156, 1. 5. 
Buckle, v.t. To bend: p. 102, |. 10. 
Buffon, sb. The old spelling of ‘buffoon’: p. 136,1. 20. Florio (Ital. 
Dict. 1611) has ‘ Buffonare, to ieast or play the buffon.’ 
But only. This expression is found where we should now use one or 
other of the words: p, 234,1. 1. So ‘only but’ is used for ‘but’ or 
‘only’: p. 174, 1. 10. Compare Shakespeare, Meas. for Meas. iii. 1. 3: 
‘The miserable have no other medicine 
But only hope.’ 
By how much. In the same proportion as: p. 12, 1.8; p. 129, 1, 13. 
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