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BEWITCH.

Look to it, lords; let not his smoothing words
Bewitch your hearts: be wise, and circumspect.
What, though the common people favour him!

2 HENRY VI. i. 1.

I will counterfeit the bewitchment of some popular man.

CORIOLANUS, ii. 3.

Pray God, he be not bewitch'd!

TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 4.

Heavens grant that Warwick's words bewitch him not.

3 HENRY VI. iii. 3.

BIRTH OF OUR SAVIOUR.

Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes,
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
This bird of dawning singeth all night long,

So hallowed, and so gracious, is the time.

Holy Writ.

BEWITCH.

But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria.

ACTS, viii.

O foolish Galatians! who hath bewitched you, that should not obey the truth?

GALATIANS, iii.

ye

To him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.

Now, when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the King, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is He that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen His star in the east, and are come to worship Him.

BLESSING.

MATTHEW, ii.

Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord! the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

PSALM CXii.

He will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great.

PSALM CXV.

Shakespeare,

BLESSING-(continued).

The God of Heaven both now and ever bless her!

HENRY VIII. v. 2.

The Heavens have bless'd you with a goodly son,

To be

your

comforter.

BLINDNESS-(Mental).

RICHARD III. i. 3.

Hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul,
To counsel me to make my peace with God;
And art thou yet to thine own soul so blind,
That thou wilt war with God by murdering me ?

RICHARD III. i. 4.

BLOOD.

Whose maiden blood, thus rigorously effus'd,
Will cry for vengeance at the gates of Heaven.

1 HENRY VI. v. 4.

I am in blood

Stept in so far, that should I wade no more,

Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

MACBETH, iii. 4.

BOUNDS.

There's nothing, situate under Heaven's eye,
But hath His bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.

COMEDY OF ERRORS, ii. 1.

Holy Writ.

BLESSING-(continued).

Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David!

1 SAMUEL, Xxvi.

And David sent to comfort Hanun, for his father.

2 SAMUEL, X.

BLINDNESS-(MENTAL).

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

BLOOD.

Shed not innocent blood.

EPHESIANS, iv.

JEREMIAH, vii.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

GENESIS, ix.

O Lord, holy and true! Dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

REVELATION, vi.

BOUNDS.

He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day

and night come to an end.

JOB, xxvi.

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BOOK OF LIFE.

If ever I were traitor,

My name be blotted from the Book of Life,
And I from Heaven banish'd, as from hence.

If thy offences were upon record,

RICHARD II. i. 3.

Would it not shame thee to read a lecture
Of them?

Mark'd with a blot, damn'd in the Book of Heaven.

Stoop to the block, than these knees bow to any,
Save to the God of Heaven, and to my king.

2 HENRY VI. iv. 1.

On my knee

I give Heaven thanks, I was not like to thee.

KING JOHN, i. 1.

Help, angels, make assay!

Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart, with strings of steel,

Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe.

CAIN.

HAMLET, iii. 3.

With Cain go wander through the shade of night,
And never shew thy head by day nor light.

RICHARD II. v. 6.