. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. in, if you come in her presence. Benedick. Then is cotirte-sy a turn-coat. But it is certain I amloved of all ladies, only you excepted: and 1 would I could find in myheart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice. A dear happiness to women: they would else have beentroubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God, and my cold blood, Iam of your humour for that; I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow,than a man swear he loves me. Benedick. God keep your ladyship still in that mind I so some gentle-man or other shall s
. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. in, if you come in her presence. Benedick. Then is cotirte-sy a turn-coat. But it is certain I amloved of all ladies, only you excepted: and 1 would I could find in myheart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice. A dear happiness to women: they would else have beentroubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God, and my cold blood, Iam of your humour for that; I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow,than a man swear he loves me. Benedick. God keep your ladyship still in that mind I so some gentle-man or other shall scape a predestinate scratched face. Beatrice. Scratching could not make it worse, an t were such a face asyours were. Benedick. Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher. Beatrice. A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours. Benedick. / would my horse had the Speed of your tongue, and so gooda continuer: But keep your way, o Gods name: I have done! Beatrice. You always end with a jades trick: I know yju of old. Shakespeare s Much Ado about BENEDICK AND BEATRICE. BEN-HUE 121 BENEDICK demned to the galleys for life. Escaping,after three years of servitude, thiough thefavor of Arrius, a Roman Tribune, he seekshis mother and sister to find both are healed by Christ, whose devotedfollowers they become.—Lew Wallace, 5e/?-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880). Ben Israel {Nathan) or Nathan ben Samuel, the physician and friend of Isaacthe Jew.—Sir W. Scott, Ivanlioe (time,Richard I.). Ben JocTianan, in the satire of Absa-lom and Achitophel, by Dryden and Tate, ismeant for the Rev. Samuel Johnson, whosuffered much persecution for his defenceof the right of private judgment. Let Hebron, nay, let hell produce a manSo made for mischief as Ben Jew of humble parentage was he,By trade a Levite, though of low degree. Part ii. Benaiah (3 syl.), in Absalom and Achit-ophel, is meant for general Greorge EdwardSackviUe. As Benaiah, captain of Davidsguard, adhered
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