"Good my lord," quoth the Reeve, "bethink thee, when Duke Ivo shall hear of our doings he will seek bitter vengeance.

And therefore it were well that we should bethink us of some one who might assist us in this undertaking.

"Now, I bethink me it were ill of us to fight with good victuals standing so nigh, and such a feast as would befit two stout fellows such as we are.

"By the faith of my heart," quoth merry Robin, "I do bethink me that we have had no one to dine with us for this long time.

Romans, some here have lost at my command Their fathers, mothers, brothers, and allies; And think you, Sylla, thinking these misdeeds, Bethinks not on your grudges and mislike?

At last, at the eleventh hour, Faustus bethinks himself to repent; but it is too late.

I pray you bethinks you well hereof, good Maister G., and forth with write me those two or three special points and caueats for the nonce; De quibus in superioribus illis mellitissimus longissimisque litteris tuis.

Diabolus now bethinks himself of remodelling the town for his greater security, setting up one and putting down another at pleasure.

[Sidenote: King Ban bethinks him of King Arthur] So by and by things came to such a pass that King Ban bethought him of King Arthur, and he said to himself: "I will go to my lord the King and beseech help and aid from him, for he will certainly give it me.

quicken the beasts," he cried; for Pierre, like most who dwell in Valais, was a Catholic, and one accustomed to bethink him most of his heavenly mediator when most oppressed with present dangers; "quicken their speed, if ye value your lives!

"Hast thou aught to advise?" asked Melchior de Willading, folding Adelheid to his bosom, beneath his ample cloak, and communicating, with a father's love, a small portion of the meagre warmth that still remained in his own aged frame to that of his drooping daughter"canst thou bethink thee of nothing, that may be done, in this awful strait?"

"If it is to be as useful now as thou hast already been," answered the Genoese, "it will be happier for us all, thyself included: bethink thee quickly of thy expedients, and I will make thee an equal sharer of all that a generous Providence hath bestowed.

It is only at this moment that Law bethinks him of describing his troop.

EUPHORION From earth my spirit Still upward presses; Let go my hands now, Let go my tresses, Let go my garments, Mine every one! HELENA To whom, bethink thee, Now thou pertainest!

Thus a pigeon would starve near a dish of the best flesh-meat, and a cat on a heap of fruit or corn, though both might very well support life with the food which they thus disdain, did they but bethink themselves to make a trial of it: it is in this manner dissolute men run into excesses, which bring on fevers and death itself; because the mind depraves the senses, and when nature ceases to speak, the will still continues to dictate.

The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life.

In every battle we pound him, and drive him back, and get him in a slip-noose; but just as we are going to draw it tight and catch him, the filthy, idolatrous thief bethinks himself and shouts "Bonaparty!"

After a transient swoon, recovering his footing, experiencing only a general numbness, and some pain caused by the contusions resulting from his fall, he bethinks himself of the means of escape.

Bethink you, sirs!

After he has been striding along for a short time with a free, manly gait, he suddenly bethinks himself that he is writing a book.

We must bethink us suddenly and constantly, And wisely too, we expect no common danger.

[He bethinks himself and sits down again.

Then I had to bethink myself what I had to do to save the estate from those rascals.

M. Dumas bethinks him to tell us the principal incident in the life of this Ferdinand; but then this again is connected with the history of Bianca Capello, so that he must commence with her adventures.

You see, my dear E, one had need bethink oneself what orders one gives, when one has the misfortune to be despotic.