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Tue choosing of a person King or Queen by a_ bean 
found in a piece of a divided cake was formerly a common 
Christmas gambol in both the English universities. 
Brand’s “Popular Antiquities,” vol. i. p. 20. 
[See also the same author, p. 97, under “ Mid-Lent Sunday.” 
French Beans are mentioned in Beaumont and Fletcher's 
“ Tragedy of Bonduca” (i. 2).] 
SHE made me colour my hair with Bean-flower to seem 
elder than I was. Webster's “Devil’s Law Case,” iv. 2. 
Bear. 
Thy groans 
Did make wolves how! and penetrate the breasts 
Of ever-angry bears. 
TeEMmpEst, i. 2, 287-9. 
Wolves and bears, they say, 
Casting their savageness aside, have done 
Like offices of pity. 
Winter’s Tate, il. 3, 187-9. 
The rugged Russian bear. 
MacseTy, iii. 4, 100, 
Like to a chaos or an unlick’d bear-whelp 
That carries no impression like the dam. 
3 Kine Henry VI, iii, 2, 161-2. 
One bear will not bite another. 
Troitus anp Cressipa, v. 7, 19. 
Unicorns may be betray’d with trees, 
And bears with glasses. 
Jutius C#sar, ii. 1, 204-5. 
Amip the desert rocks the mountain bear 
Brings forth unform, unlike herself, her young ; 
Nought else but lumps of flesh withouten hair. 
In tract of time her often licking tongue 
Gives them such shape, as doth (erelong) delight 
The lookers on. 
Arthur Broke's “ Romeus and Juliet,” Address to the Reader. 
Wuew the Bear cannot find origanum to heal his grief, 
he blasteth all other leaves with his breath. 
Lilly’s “Sappho and Phaon”. (Prologue), 
