I have fitted up six rooms, with lodgings for five servants, which are all I ever will have in this place; and I am persuaded that I could make a profit if I would part with my purchase, having been very much befriended in the sale, which was by auction, the owner having died without children, and I believe he had never seen this mansion in his life, it having stood empty from the death of his grandfather.

He came to an evil end, for he died in his shame, and the pagans he befriended with him.

But the breach between the brothers-in-law, though wide, proved fortunately not irreconcilable; and towards the end of Dryden's literary career, we find him again upon terms of friendship with the person by whom he had been befriended at its commencement.

And I will be the woman shall befriend ye, 'Tis but to entertain some handsome Ladies, And young fair Gentlewomen: you guess the way:

Absence from the ship has accidentally befriended youfor the little you have taken here has not been sufficient to do any harm.

It was unfortunately true that Mark had taken a violent prejudice against the man he had befriended to such good purpose years and years ago.

"We are not so officiously befriended by him as to have his presence in the 'tiring house to prompt us aloud, stampe at the booke-holder, sweare for our properties, curse the poor tire-man, raile the musicke out of tune, and sweat for every veniall trespasse we commit, as some author would.