It is sowun a beestli bodi; it schal rise a spiritual bodi.—1 Cor. xv. 44. Wiclif.
These ben, whiche departen hemsilf, beestli men, not havynge spirit.—Jude 19. Wiclif.
Where they should have made head with the whole army upon the Parthians, they sent him aid by small companies; and when they were slain, they sent him others also. So that by their beastliness and lack of consideration they had like to have made all the army fly.—North, Plutarch’s Lives, p. 769.
Bedlam. An old pronunciation of Bethlehem. The Priory known by this name was in 1546 converted into a hospital for lunatics. But it was not the place only, but the unhappy occupants of it, to whom this name used often to be applied. Such a use has now quite died out.
Ha, art thou bedlam? dost thou thirst, base Trojan,
To have me fold up Parca’s fatal web?
Shakespeare, Henry V. act v. sc. 1.
Is not all for thy good, if thou be not a bedlam?
Rogers, Naamam the Syrian, p. 30.
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