BEG 
I give confent to go along with you; 
Recking as little what betideth me, 
As much I with all good befortune you. Skakefpeare. 
BEFOU'L, v. a. [from be and foul.} To make foul; 
to foil; to dirt. 
To BEFRIEND', v. a. [from- be ai A friend.} To fa¬ 
vour ; to behind to; to countenance; to iliew friendftiip 
to ; to benefit: 
Be thou the fir ft true merit to befriend ; ■ 
His phrafe is loft, who itays till all commend. Pope. 
7 bBEFRIN'GE, v. a. [from be and fringe. ] To deco¬ 
rate with fringes: 
When 1 flatter, let my dirty leaves 
Clothe fpice, line trunks, or, flutt’ring in a row, 
Befringe the rails of Bedlam and Soho. Pope. 
To BEG, v. n. \_beggeren , Germ.] To live upon alms ; 
to live by afking relief of others. 
To Beg, v. a. To afk; to feck by petition.—He went 
to Pilate, and begged the body. Matthew. —To take any 
thing for granted, without evidence or proof.—We have 
not begged any principles or fuppofitions, for the proof of 
this ; but taken that common ground,- which both Mofes 
and all antiquity prefent. Burnet. 
Beg, or Be y,f. in the Turkifh government. See Bet. 
Begh, or Bechs, of Egypt, denote twelve generals, 
who have the command of the militia or flairding forces of 
the kingdom; and are to fecure the country from the in- 
fults of Arabs, as well as to proteft the pilgrims in their 
annual expeditions to Mecca. The begs, feveral of whom 
are defeended from the ancient race of the Mamalukes, 
are very rich and powerful, maintaining each 500 fighting 
men for their own guard, and the fervice of their court. 
On dilcontents, they have frequently rifen in rebellion. 
They are often at variance with the bafliaw, whom they 
have more than once plundered and imprifoned. 
Beg Lough, a lake of Ireland, in the county of An¬ 
trim : two miles north of Lough Neagh. 
BE'GA (Cornelius), painter of landfcape, cattle, and 
converfation, was born at Haerlem in 1620, and was the 
dilciple of Adrian Oftade. Falling into a diffipated way 
of life, he was difinherited by his father: for which reafon 
he caft off his father’s name, which was Begeyn, and af¬ 
firmed that of Bcga ; his early pictures being marked with 
the former, and his latter works with the other. He had 
a fine and delicate manner of handling his colours; and his 
performances are fo much efieemed in the Low Countries, 
as to be placed among the works of the befl artifts. He 
took the plague from a woman to whom he fhewed fo 
much finceriry of affeition, that, notwithftanding the ex- 
poftulations of his friends and phylicians, he would attend 
her to the laft moments of her life, and died a few days 
after, aged forty-four. 
B.ega, or Vega, a river of Germany, which runs into 
the Werra : four miles north-weft of Lemgo, in the cir¬ 
cle of Weftphalia. 
BEGAR'RA, a town of Spain, in New Caftile : four 
leagues from Alcarez. 
BE'GER, a town of Spain, in the country of Seville : 
fourteen leagues from Medina Sidonia. 
To BEGET', v. a. begot, or begat ; 1 have begotten , or 
begot: \_begezzan, Sax. to obtain.] To generate; to pro¬ 
create ; to become the father of, as children.—Who hath 
begotten me thefe, feeing 1 have loft my children, and am 
defolate ? Ifaiah. 
Love is begot by fancy, -bred 
By ignorance, by expectation fed. Granville. 
To produce, as effects.—My whole intention was to beget, 
in the minds of men, magnificent fentiments of God and 
his works. Cheyne .—To produce, as accidents : 
Is it a time for ftory, when.each minute 
Begets a thoufand. dangers ?• Denham, 
BEG 85$ 
BEGET'TER,yi He that procreates, or begets; the 
father.—Men continue the race of mankind, commonly 
without the intention, and often againft the confent and 
will, of the begetter. Locke. 
BEG'GAR,/! [from beg. It is more properly written 
begger \ but the common orthography is retained, becaufe 
the derivatives all preferve the <2.] One who lives upon 
alms; one who has nothing but what is given him.—He 
raifeth up the poor out of the duft, and lifteth up the beg. 
gar from the dunghill, to fet them among princes. Samuel. 
—One who fupplicates for any thing; a petitioner; for 
which, beggar is a harfti and contemptuous term : 
What fubjefls will precarious kings regard ? 
A beggar fpeaks too foftly to be heard. Dryden. 
One who aflumes what he does not prove.—Thefe fhatne- 
ful beggars of principles, who give this precarious account 
of the original of things, a (fume to themfelves to be men 
of reafon. Tillotfon. 
“ Set a Beggar on horfeback, and he’ll ride to the de¬ 
vil.” Afperius nihil ef humili cum furgit in altum. Lat. II 
n'efi orgueil que de pauvre enrichi. Fr. There is no pride 
comes up to that of a beggar who is grown rich, ll vitan 
nobilitado non connofce ilparentado. Iial. A beggar enobled 
forgets his own kindred. Kein mejfer [cherffer fchiert, a/s 
wann ein baur, ein edelmann zvird. H. Ger. No razor can 
ftiave clofer (be more impofing) than a peafant turned 
gentleman. Quando el villano ejla en el mulo, non conoze a 
dios, ni al mundo. Span-. When a poor man is got upon a. 
mule, Ire knows neither heaven nor earth. Thefe pro¬ 
verbs explain one another. 
“It is one Beggar’s wee, to fee another by the door 
go.” Kai Trly^;©-' 'm\uya_<pibo'ju. Hef. Etiam mendicus m:n- 
dico invidit. Lat. The Lat. fay likewife : Figulus figulo in - 
videt, faberfbro. The potter envies the potter, the fmith 
the fmith. Or, as we fay', “Two of a trade can never 
agree.” Which fufficiently explains the foregoing. 
“Beggars mu ft not be choofers.” A qui en dan no ef edge. 
Sp. A reproach to thole who find fault with what is given 
them. We fay likewife in the lame fenfe : “We mull not 
look a gift horfe in the mouth ;” that is, enquire his age. 
“ Beggars breed, and rich men feed. Les gueux font 
les enfans, & les riches les entretiennent. Beggars get children, 
and rich men maintain them. But it may as well be un- 
derftood, that poor men being by neceffity confined to a 
temperate courfe of living, are the belt qualified to pro¬ 
create ; whereas the rich, by intemperance or overfeeding 
deftroy, or at leaft-debilitate, the procreative faculty. 
A haughty Beggar is reprefented by a damfel with a 
lofty countenance, in a pompous red mantle, adorned with 
feveral jewels, under which isa poor ragged petticoat; hav¬ 
ing a peacock in iier hand, Handing w ith one foot upon a 
bowl, and with the other feeming, on her left, to precipitate 
herfelf. The red garment denotes the heat of blood, cauf- 
ing ambition; the pitiful ragged petticoat, that the haugh¬ 
ty at bottom are nothing worthy of efteem. Her poftura 
(hews the ticklifti place Hie Hands on, being ready to fall 
into mifery. 
7 b Beggar, v. a. To reduce to beggary; to impove- 
rifti.—They fhall fpoil the clothiers wool, and beggar tli3. 
prefent fpinners. Graunt. —To deprlve. To exhauft:. 
For her perfon, 
It beggar'd all defeription ; fhe did Lis 
In her pavilion, cloth of gold, of tilfue, 
O’er-picturing Venus. Skakefpeare. 
BEG'GARLINESS,/. The ft-ate of being beggarly; 
meannefs ; poverty. 
BEG'GARLY, adj. Mean; poor; indigent; in the 
condition of a beggar ; ufed both of perfons and things.— 
Who, that beheld fuch a bankrupt beggarly fellow as 
Cromwell entering the parliament houfe, with a thread¬ 
bare tom cloak, and greufy hat, could have fufpedled 
that he Ihould, by the murder of one king and the banifh- 
ment of another, afeend the throne. South, —Corufodes, 
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