Bon'iface (The abbot), successor of the abbot Ingelram, as Superior of St. Mary's Convent.—Sir W. Scott, The Monastery (time, Elizabeth).
Boni'face, landlord of the inn at Lichfield, in league with the highwaymen. This sleek, jolly publican is fond of the cant phrase, "as the saying is." Thus, "Does your master stay in town, as the saying is?" "So well, as the saying is, I could wish we had more of them." "I'm old Will Boniface; pretty well known upon this road, as the saying is." He had lived at Lichfield "man and boy above eight and fifty years, and not consumed eight and fifty ounces of meat." He says:
"I have fed purely upon ale. I have eat my
ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon my
ale."—George Farquhar,
The Beaux' Stratagem
,
i. I (1707).
Bonne Reine, Claude de France, daughter of Louis XII. and wife of François I. (1499-1524).
Bonnet Rouge, a red republican, so called from the red cap of liberty which he wore.