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His table ebnfifted of ten dirties, dreft in the phuneft find 
molt,Ample manner. The courtiers reproached him often 
with the iimpiicitv of his table. He ufed to reply in the 
words of an ancient, “ If the guefts are men of lenfe, there 
is fufficient for them ; if they are not, I can very well diH- 
pen-fe with their company.” Sully dined at the upper end 
of the hall with the perfons of his own age, at a table 
apart. The young people were ferved at a table by them- 
felves. Sully gave as a reafon for this arrangement, that 
the perfons of different ages might not be mutually tire- 
fome to each other. The pope having written a letter to 
Mt de Sully upon his becoming minifter, which ended 
with his holinefs’s 'ivifhes that he might enter into the right 
way ; Sully anfwered, that on his part he never ceafed to 
pray for the converlion of his holinef’s. A cotemporary 
writer thus defcribes this great minifter : “He was,” fays 
he, “a man of order, exaft, frugal, a man of his word, 
ar.d had no foolifh expences either of play or of any thing 
elfe that was unfuitable to the dignity of his character. 
He was vigilant, laborious, and expedited bufinefs. He 
fpent his whole rime in his employments, and gave none 
of*it to his pleafures. With all thefe qualifications, lie 
Iiad the talent of diving to the bottom of every thing that 
was fubmitted to him, and of difcovering every entangle¬ 
ment and difficulty with which financiers, when they are 
not honed men, endeavour to conceal their tricks and their 
rogueries.” 
Henry IV. told Sully, after the confpiracy of Biron a- 
gaind him was difcovered, “ I fee that many of the great 
men about my court are mentioned in the depolitions that 
have been taken. Guefs who they are.” “God forbid, 
fire,” replied Sully nobly, “that I ffiould pretend to guefs 
at any man of quality who is a traitor.” He alfo gave 
Sully one day the contraft of marriage into which he had 
entered with mademoifelle d’Entragues, to read ; to which 
he faid, after having read it, “ Sire, will you promife me 
not to be angry Henry replied, “Yes, Sully, I pro¬ 
mife you that I will not be angry.” Sully tore the con¬ 
tract in pieces immediately, faying, “ Sire, this is the 
life you ought to make of it.” Sully died in his cadle of 
Villebon on the 21ft of December 1641, aged eighty-two. 
But, though he lived to this great age, yet no life could be 
more frequently expofed to perils and danger. One of 
thefe was of a very extraordinary kind, and deferves to be 
particularly mentioned. It was at the taking of a town in 
Cambray, in 1581, when, to defend tire women from the 
brutality of the foldiers, the churches, with guards about 
them, were given them for afylums; neverthelefs, a beau¬ 
tiful young girl fuddenly threw herfelf into his arms, as he 
was walking in the ftreets, and, holding him faft, conjured 
him to guard her from fome foldiers, .who, flte faid, had 
concealed themfelves as foon as they faw him. Sully en¬ 
deavoured to calm her fears, and offered to conduft her to 
the next church ; but fhe told him ffie had been there, 
and had afked for admittance, which they refufed, be- 
caufe they knew ffie had the plague. Sully thruft her 
from him with the utmoft’horror, and expefted every mo¬ 
ment to be feized with the plague, which, however, by 
good fortune did not happen. His Memoirs are ranked 
among the bed books of French hiftory : they contain a 
molt particular account of whatever palfed from the peace 
of 1570 to the death of Henry IV. in 1610: and acquire 
additional value from the many curious perfonal anecdotes 
preferved in them. They were tranflated into Englifh by 
Mrs. Lenox in 1757. 
Bethune, a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftridt, in the department of the Straits of Calais. It 
formerly belonged to the counts of Flanders ; but being 
taken by Gallon, duke of Orleans, uncle to Louis XIV. 
it was united to France by the peace of the Pyrenees, 
when the fortifications were augmented and repaired under 
the direction of M. Vauban. In 1710, after the taking 
of Douay, the allied army, under prince Eugene and duke 
of Marlborough, inverted this town, and carried it after 
a fiege of fix weeks j allowing the garrifcn, with two 
pieces of cannon, and other' honours of 'war, to retire to 
St. Onter. M, de Puy Vauban, nephew to the marechal, 
commanded the garrifdn, which confided of nine battalions, 
four Iquadrqns, and a detachment of artillery. It was re- 
ftored to France in 1717, at the peace of Utrecht: three 
ports and a half north of Arras, ten fouth-eaft of- Calais, 
and twenty-five and three quarters north of Paris. 
To B KTI'DE, v. n. pret. it betided, or betid, part. pa(f, 
betid \ [frgm tid. Sax.] To happen to; to befal; to be¬ 
chance, whet-hergood or bad : with the perfon : 
But fay, if our’deliverer up to heav’n 
Mult re-afeend, what will betide the few, 
His faithful, left among th’ urffaithful liepd, 
The enemies of truth t Milton. 
Sometimes it lias to ; 
Neither know I 
What is betid to Cloten. Shakefpeare. 
To come to pafs; to fall out; to happen : without the 
perfon : 
In winter’s tedious nights, fit by the fire 
With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales 
Of woeful ages, long ago tot'd. Shakefpeare. 
To become; to be the fate: with of. —If he were dead, 
what would betide of t hee ? Shakefpeare. 
BETIGO'LA, a town of Poland, in Samogitia : ten 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Rofienne. 
BE'TIME, or Betimes, adv. {Trent by and time ; that 
is, by proper time.] Seafonably; early; before it is late; 
To meafure life learn thou betimes, and know 
Toward folid good what leads the neared way. Milton < 
Soon; before long time lias parted.—He tires betimes, that 
fpurs too fart betimes. Shakefpeare. —Early in the day.— 
They rofe betimes in the morning, and offered facrifice. 
1 Macc. iv. 52. , 
BE'TIS, governor of Gaza under Darius, famous for 
his valour and loyalty ; he defended a place of confequence 
with a few men againft Alexander, who was there ffiot 
through the ffioulder. Betis, thinking him flain, returned 
triumphantly to the city ; but in a lecond affault he was 
wounded and brought to Alexander, who cruelly ordered 
him to be put to death. 
BETIQU A', a town of Africa jin the kingdom of Congo- 
BETIT'LO, a town of European Turkey, in the Mo- 
rea : twenty-two miles fouth of Mi ft lira. 
BET'LEY, a market-town in Staffordffiire, fituate on 
the borders of Chefhire, 156 miles from London, and five 
north-weft of Newcaftle-under-Line. The foil is fandy, 
andabounds withcapital gardens, which fupply the greateft 
part of Newcaftle and the potteries with early cabbage, 
peafe, beans, potatoes, &c. during the feafon. Here is a 
large fair for cattle and merchandize on the 31ft of July. 
The market is on Tuefday. Near the town is Betley- 
Ha 11 , tlie feat of Charles Follet, Efq. alio that of Mrs, 
Fenton, a noble manfion-houfe, with beautiful gardens. 
BET'LIS, a town of Afia, and capital of Curdiftan, 
fituated between two high mountains, about a cannon-fliot 
diftance from each other, the refidence of a bey, who is 
neither fubjeft to the king of Perfia or the Turkiffi em¬ 
peror, and commands an army of twenty or twenty-five 
thoufand horfemen, befides infantry: 110 miles eaft of 
Diarbek, and 100 north of Moful. Lat. 37.20. N. Ion. 
60. 10. E. Ferro. 
To BETO'KEN, v. a. [from tokenf To fignify» to 
mark ; to represent : 
A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow 
Confpicuous with three lifted colours gay, 
Betoken peace from God. Milton. 
To foreffiew ; to, p re fignify : 
The kindling azure, and the mountain’s brow 
Illum’d with fluid gold, his near approach 
Betoken glad. Thompfon, 
BE'TOLA, 
