Those robes your character beseem; When they are worn we'll make you new.

"Well," said the second youth, "does the choice beseem you upon whom the moon of your nuptials is beaming still.

" "Nay," quoth Robin seriously, "it would ill beseem us to treat Your Worship so meanly.

How ill beseem these billaments of gold Thy mournful widowhood?

Therefore, Sylla, these daring terms unfit Beseem not thee before the capitol.

That each good man may evil beseem, ill become.

Such as doth best beseem such as we be, Such we present, and crave your courtesy.

Tut, what cares he for modest close-couch'd terms, Cleanly to gird our looser libertines? Give him plain naked words, stripp'd from their shirts, That might beseem plain-dealing Aretine.

Come, lads; this wine whets your resolution in our design: it's a needy world with subtle spirits; and there's a gentlemanlike kind of begging, that may beseem poets in this age.

Not with bronze-edged swords nor with javelins doth it beseem us twain to divide our forefathers' great honour, nor needeth it, for lo!

For I have sworn brotherhood to that noble and gentle champion, and it would ill beseem me to assault him now, when he is weary and short of breath from this great battle which he hath done to-day against such odds.

Tot mundi superstitiones quot coelo stellae, one saith, there be as many superstitions in the world, as there be stars in heaven, or devils themselves that are the first founders of them: with such ridiculous, absurd symptoms and signs, so many several rites, ceremonies, torments and vexations accompanying, as may well express and beseem the devil to be the author and maintainer of them.

'Tis true Philaster, but the words are such, I have to say, and do so ill beseem The mouth of woman, that I wish them said, And yet am loth to speak them.

The Baron rose, and while he prest His gentle daughter to his breast, With cheerful wonder in his eyes The lady Geraldine espies, 400 And gave such welcome to the same, As might beseem so bright a dame!

Expand to me once more, that I the king's behest May faithfully discharge, as doth the spouse beseem.

"His frail body," he said, "was in the hands of a heavenly Providence, to which, as might best beseem, he bequeathed its guidance."

But while the women thus rejoiced, Geraint Woke where he slept in the high hall, and call'd For Enid, and when Yniol made report Of that good mother making Enid gay In such apparel as might well beseem His princess, or indeed the stately Queen, He answer'd: "Earl, entreat her by my love, Albeit I give no reason but my wish, That she ride with me in her faded silk.

Dear uncle, it does not beseem a child to reflect on its elders, yet I cannot but see that grandmamma loves this world and me too well for her soul's good.

" The language of such a personage, unless when engaged in argumentative dialogue with his mistress, was, in all respects, as magnificent and inflated as might beseem his irresistible prowess.

Not every one doth it beseem to question The far-off high Arcturus.

To leave no interval between the sentence, And the fulfilment of it, doth beseem God only, the immutable! BUTLER.

Then Joseph spake: "Thy boy hath largely grown; Weave him fine raiment, fitting to be shown; Fair robes beseem the pilgrim, as the priest: Goes he not with us to the holy feast?"

In doing this, the "I" has, perhaps, talked far too much to beseem those proprieties which the author of a book should observe.

Such extremities 'd well beseem a king's daughter, all glorious within!"

For the Man's sake, could feed at Nature's call Some pensive musings which might well beseem Maturer years.