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ing the Englifh (hips in the harbours, which they after¬ 
wards put in execution at Chatham. 1 his (he immedi¬ 
ately communicated to the Englifn court: but, though the 
event proved her intelligence to-be well founded, yet it 
was only laughed at ; which probably determined her to 
drop all farther thoughts of political affairs, and during 
the remainder of her flay at Antwerp to give herfelf up 
to the gaiety and gallantries of tire place. Vander Albert 
continued his addrelfes, and, after having made fome un- 
fuccefsful attempts to obtain the poifefiion of her perfon 
■on eafier terms than matrimony, at length confented to 
make her his wife ; but, while he was preparing for a jour¬ 
ney to England with that intent, a fever carried him off. 
In her voyage back to England, flie was very near being 
loft, the veil'd being driven on the coaft by a ftorm ; but, 
happening to founder within fight of land, the paffengers, 
by the timely afliftance of boats from the fnore, were all 
fortunately preferred. From this period flie devoted her 
life to pleafure, and the mufes. Her works are extremely 
numerous, and all of them have a lively and amorous turn. 
She publiflied three volumes of Mifcellany Poems ; two 
volumes of Hiftories and Novels; tranflated Fontenelle’s 
Plurality of Worlds, and annexed a Criticifm on it; and 
her plays make four volumes. After a life intermingled 
with numerous difappointments, flie departed from this 
world on the 16th of April 1689, and lies interred in the 
cloyfters of Weftminfter Abbey. 
BEH'NESS, a town of Egypt: ten miles north-weft of 
Abu Girge. 
To BEpJO'LD, v. a. pret. I beheld, l have beheld, or behol¬ 
den ; [1 behealdan, Sax.] To view; to fee; to look upon : to 
■behold is to fee, in an emphatical or intenfive fenfe.—Son of 
man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears. 
Ezekiel. 
The Saviour comes, by ancient bards foretold, 
Hear him ye deaf, and all ye blind behold l Pope. 
Behold, interjcB. See; !o: a word by which attention 
■is ■excited, or admiration noted.— Behold! I am with thee, 
and will keep thee. Gencfis. 
When out of hope, behold her ! not far offj. 
Such as I faw her in my dream, adorn’d. 
With what all earth or heaven could beftow 
To make her amiable. Milton. 
BEHOL'DEN, part. cdj. [geheuden, Dut. that is, held 
in obligation. It is very:corruptly written beholding.'] O- 
bliged ; bound in gratitude: with the particle to.—We, 
who fee men under the awe of juftice, cannot conceive 
what favage creatures they would be without it; and how 
much beholden we are to that wife contrivance. Atterbury. 
BEHOL'DER,y. .Spectator ; he that looks upon any 
thing.—The charitable foundations, in the church of 
Rome, exceed all the demands of charity; andraife envy, 
rather than compaftion, in the breads of beholders. Atterbury. 
BEHGL'DING, J'. Obligation.—Love to virtue, and 
not to any particular beholdings, hath exprefled this my tef- 
timony. Carew. 
BEHOLD'INGNESS,y [from beholding, miflaken for 
beholden .] The (hue of being obliged.—The king invited 
us to his court, fo as I muft acknowledge a beholdingnefs 
unto him. Sidney. 
BEHOOF', /', [from behoove.^ That which behooves ; 
that which is advantageous; profit; advantage.—Becaufe 
>t was for the behoof of the animal, that, upon any hid¬ 
den accident, it might be awakened, there were no flints 
or floppies made for the ears. Ray. 
Wert thou home ftar, which from the ruin’d roof 
Of fhak’d Olympus by mifchance didft fall ; 
Which careful Jove, in nature’s true behoof. 
Took up, and in fit place did reinftate. Milton. 
To BEHOOVE', v. n. [ bchovan, Sax. it is a duty.] To 
be fit ; to be meet : either with refpedt to duty, necelTity, 
nr convenience. It is ufed only imperfonal'ly with it. —He 
did fo prudently temper his paflious, as that none of them 
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made him wanting in the offices of life, which it ’behoved or 
became him to perform. Atterbury. 
BEHOOVE'FUL, adj. [from^c/wo/l] Ufeful; profitable; 
advantageous. This word isJomewhat antiquated. —Laws are 
many times full of imperfections ; and that which is fup- 
pofed bchooveful unto men, proveth oftentimes mod per¬ 
nicious. Hooker. 
BEHOOVE'FULLY, adv. Profitably; ufefuUy.—Tell 
11s of more weighty drflikes than thefe, and that may more 
bchoovcfuUy import the reformation. Spenfer. 
BE HOT',[ preterite. , as it feems, oibchight, to promife. ] 
With (harp intended fling fo rude him fniote, 
That to the earth him drove as ftricken dead, 
Ne living Wight would have him life behot. Fairy Queen. 
BEHUT', a town of Hindoftan, in the Malwa country • 
128 miles fouth of Agra, and twenty-one .north-north-eafl 
of Chadaree. 
BE'JA, or Bexa, a city of Portugal, in tire province 
of Alentejo, the fee of a bifhop, fuflVagan to Compoflello, 
near a lake of the fame name. It is feared in a very agree¬ 
able and fruitful plain, remarkable for excellent wine. 
There are three gates remaining, which are of Roman ar¬ 
chitecture, and a great many Roman antiquities are dug 
out of the earth. The town has a ftrong caftle for its de¬ 
fence, and is feventy-two miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Litbon. 
Lat. 38. N. Ion. 10. 46. E. Ferro. 
BEI'AD, a town of Egypt: two miles eaft-north-eaft: 
of Benifeuf. 
BEI'ADTE, a town of Egypt: three miles fouth-eaft 
of Aftimunein. 
PE'JAR DE MELE'NA, a town of Spain, in Anda- 
lufia, near tire Straits of Gibraltar, famous for its baths : 
eight leagues fouth of Cadiz. 
BEJ A'R-I A,/l [This name was given by Mutis, in ho¬ 
nour of Bejar, a Spanifh botanifl.] In botany, a genus of 
the clafs dodecanbria, order monogynia, natural order 
bicornes. The generic characters are—Calyx : perian- 
thium one leafed, gibbous downwards, fubventricofe, fe- 
ven-cleft; divifions fubequal, ovate, acute, converging, 
fniall ; the outer ones broader; permanent. Corolla : pe¬ 
tals feven, oblong, broader above, cbtule, patulous, in- 
ferted into the receptacle. Stamina : filaments fourteen, 
tubulate, rather fliorter than the corolla ; alternately lefs ; 
anthcrx oblong, incumbent. Piftillum : germ fuperior ; 
ftyle columnar, -raiddie-fized, permanent; ftigma thickifh, 
leven-flriated. Perianthium : berry juicelefs, feven-cor- 
nered, deprefled, umbiiicate, feven-celled• Seeds : nu¬ 
merous, columnar-oblong, imbricate.— F.Jfcntial Characier. 
Calyx feven-cleft; petals feven; (lamina fourteen ; berry 
feven-celled, many-feeded. 
Species. 1. Bejaria sftuans : leaves lanceolate, flowers 
in racemes. This is a fhrub twelve feet in height, with 
roundifh fpreading branches; found in New Granada, by 
Mutis. 
2. Bejaria re fi no fa: leaves ovate, flowers heaped. This 
is a tree, with proliferous branches, and an irregular ten¬ 
der fubpubefeent bark. Leaves evergreen, quite entire, 
an inch in length. Found in New Granada, by Mutis. 
BEICHI.IN'GEN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and country of Thuringia: fix miles 
fouth-weft of Wiehe. 
BEILN'GRIES, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Franconia, and bifhopric of Aichftadt, at the conflux of 
the Altmuhl and the Soluz : fixteen miles north of In- 
goldfladt, and fixteen north-eafl of Aichftadt. 
BEIL'STEIN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weitphalia, and capital of a lordfhip, to which it gives 
name, in the principality of Naflau-Dillehburg: five miles 
fouth of Dillenburg. 
Beilsten, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Lower Rhine, and capital of a lordfhip, belonging to the 
prince of NafTau-Orange-Dietz ; which pays 128 florins for 
a Roman month : twelve miles N. W. Wetzlar, thirty-fix 
E. N. E. Coblentz. Lat* 50. 31. N. Ion. 25. 57. E. Ferro. 
BEINAC', 
