All flesh consorteth according to kind, and a man will cleave to his like.

Ecclesiasticus, c. 13, v. 16, Banks, sup.

One that is similar to him in character and disposition.

JUNIUS.

The birds will resort unto their like.

Ecclesiasticus, c. 27, v. 9; Banks, sup.

BLACK EYED SUSAN.

GAY, a Song.

BLEST BE THAT SPOT.

Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire,
Το pause from toil, and trim their evening fire;
Blest that abode where want and pain repair,
And every stranger finds a ready chair;
Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd,
Where all the ruddy family around

Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail,
Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ;
press the bashful stranger to his food,
And learn the luxury of doing good.

Or

GOLDSMITH, The Traveller, lines 13-22.

BLOSSOM IN DECAY.

But undisturb'd, they loiter life

away,

So wither green, and blossom in decay.

GARTH, Dispensary, canto 1, line 138.

BLOW WINDS, &c.

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
SHAKSPERE, King Lear, act 3, sc. 2.

BLUE STOCKING CLUB.

The origin of this title is as follows:-The dress of Mr. Benjamin Stillingfleet was remarkably grave, and in particular it was observed, that he wore blue stockings. Such was the excellence of his conversation, that his absence was felt as so great a loss, that it used to be said, "we can do nothing without the blue stocking;" and thus by degrees the title was established.

Miss Hannah Moore's Bas Blue; Boswell's Johnson, 1781.

BLUSHING HONOURS.

This is the state of man: To-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hopes, to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honours thick upon him.
SHAKSPERE, King Henry 8th, act 3, sc. 2.

BLUSHING.

If blush thou must, then blush thou through
A lawn; that thou may'st look

As purest pearls, or pebbles do,
When peeping through a brook.

HERRICK'S Hesp.-To Julia, No. 70, Amatory Odes:

BO-PEEP.

Playing bo-peep. Both Horace and Virgil mention the game of hiding or bo-peep, as a favorite one with the girls of their day.

RILEY'S Plautus, vol. 2, The Rudens, act 2, sc. 7, in notis. Where are you? I'troth she's in love with me, as I fancy; the roguish one's playing bo-peep.

Ibid.

Her pretty feet like snails did creep

A little out, and then,

As if they played at bo-peep,

Did soon draw in again.

HERRICK'S Hesp. on Julia's Feet, Amatory Odes, part 207.

BO! TO A GOOSE.

SWIFT, Grand Question Debated.

BOWS AND ARROWS.

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,
I shot his fellow of the self-same flight,
The self-same way, with more advised watch
To find the other forth; and by adventuring both
I oft found both.

SHAKSPERE, Merchant of Venice, act 1, sc. 1.

BRAVE PEERS, &c.

Brave Peers of England, pillars of the state.
SHAKSPERE, King Henry 6th, part 2, act 1, sc. 1.

BREAK A FLY, &c.

Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel!

POPE, Epi. to Arbuthnot, line 305.

Ocean into tempest wrought,

To waft a feather, or to drown a fly,

YOUNG, Night 1st, line 153.

BREATHE, SOFT, &c.

Breathe soft, ye winds! ye waves in silence sleep.
GAY, Epi. 1. A Glee by Webbe.

BREVITY.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

SHAKSPERE, Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2.

BRING AN OLD HOUSE, &c.

But friend, take heed whom you attack;
You'll bring a house (I mean of Peers)
Red, blue, and green, nay white and black,
L- and all about your ears.

POPE, on receiving a Standish from Lady Shirley.

In CONGREVE'S "Love for Love," we have an allusion to this proverb;

Sir Sampson.-Sampson's a very good name; for your Sampsons were strong dogs from the beginning.

Angel.-Have a care-if you remember, the strongest Sampson of your name, pull'd an old house over his head

at last.

See the book of Judges, c. 16, v. 29, 30.

Sit crown'd with rose-buds, and carouse,
Till Liber Pater twirls the house

About your ears, and lay upon

The year, your cares, that's fled and gone.
HERRICK, Hesperides, Pastorals, No. 25.

BRUTUS.

Brutus is an honourable man,

So are they all, all honourable men.

SHAKSPERE, Julius Cæsar, act 3, sc. 1.

D

BUILDING CASTLES, &c.

Leaving the wits the spacious air,
With licence to build castles there.
SWIFT. Vanbrugh's House.

Down to your dean'ry now repair,
And build a castle in the air;
I'm sure a man of your fine sense
Can do it with a small expence.

SWIFT, Duke Grafton's Answer to Dean Smedley's Petition.

They for themselves can only rear,

A few wild castles in the air.

BROOME. Poverty and Poetry.

Burthens like these, vile earthly buildings bear,
No tribute's laid on castles in the air.

CHURCHILL. Night, Epi. to Robert Lloyd.

Ere yet he sent his weakly eyes,
To plan frail castles in the skies.
SHENSTONE. On Taste, part 2.

The poet's title, which I bear,
With some strange castles in the air,
Was all my portion with the fair.
LLOYD. Epi. to Colman.

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BUT.

But alas to make me

The fixed figure, for the time of scorn
To point his slow and moving finger at!

SHAKSPERE, Othello, act 4, sc. 2.

BY HOOK OR CROOK.

Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush,
In hopes her to attain by hook or crook.

SPENSER, Fairy Queen, book 3, canto 1.