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 Bien poussé longuement chancelle: Prov. Looke Chanceller. Qui bien aime chastie: Prov. He that loues throughly  punishes throughly; or, he that loues well, payes home when he punishes.   Qui bien aime tard oublie: Pro. Seeke Aimer. Qui bien est ne se bouge: Prov. He thats well has best hold him so; or, let not things fitly placed be remoued.  Qui bien fera bien trouvera: Prov. He that does well shall speed well.  Qui bien gaigne, & bien espargne deuient tantost riche: Prov. He that gets much, and spares much, will soone be rich.  Qui bien tire deux en a: Prov. Looke Tirer. Qui bien veut mourir bien viue: Prov. He that would die well had need to liue well.  Qui bien veut parler bien doit pourpenser: Prov. Looke Pourpenser. Qui bien veut payer bien se doibt obliger: Prov. He that meanes to pay truly giues good securitie. Biendisance: f. Eloquence, well-speaking.

Bien-en-allée: f. A farewell; ¶Parisien. Bienfaict: m. A benefit, good turne, pleasure, kindnesse, fauour.  Bienfaict n'est iamais perdu: Pro. One neuer looses by doing courtesies.

Bienfaicteur. A benefactor; a beneficiall friend; one that doeth a good turne, or great pleasure.

Bienheuré. Happie, prosperous, fortunat.

Bienheurer. To make happie, prosperous, fortunat.

Bienheureté: f. Blessednesse, happinesse, felicitie, prosperitie.

Bienheureux: m. euse: f. Happie, fortunat, prosperous, blisse-full, blessed.

Bien-public: m. The Commonwealth; also, a faire title giuen to a foule rebellion of the Earle of Charroloise and other French Lords, against Lewis the eleuenth.

Biens. Looke Bien. Bienseamment. Comelily, agreeably, well-beseemingly with good correspondencie.

Bienseance: f. A comelinesse, becomming, seemelinesse, agreeablenesse; also, congruitie, correspondencie.  Estre à la bienseance de. To lye fit for; as land &c.

Bienseant: m. ante: f. Comely, seemely, agreeable, well-beseeming, well-becomming; also, congruous, or correspondent; befitting, or well sitting.

Bienveigner. To welcome, receiue gladly, intertaine kindly.

Bienvenement: m. A welcome, or welcomming.

Bienvienner. To welcome; as Bienveigner. Bienvenuë: f. A welcome; hence, Payer sa bienvenuë To pay his welcom, as schollers do at their first entrance or admission, into a schoole.

Bienvoulu: m. uë: f. Well beloued, well thought of, exceedingly well liked.

Bienvueillance: f. Fauor, good liking, heartie good will.

Bienvueillant: m. ante: f. Well-willing, fauourable, courteous, friendly, bearing good will, or affection vnto.

Biere: f. A coffin for a dead corpes; also, the drinke, Beere.  Aujourd'uy en chere, demain en biere: Pro. To day a man, to morrow none; (say we.)  Au cerf la biere, au sanglier le barbier: Prov. (For those beasts hard layed too, lay hard about them.)

Biés. Byas; Looke Biais.

Bieure: m. The beast called a Beauer; also, the water-horse; also, a kind of goose-like water-foule, that spoyles much fish, and is but very course meat.  En petite eau souvent on trouve grand bieure: Prov. Great worth is often found in things of small apparance.

Biez. as Biais. Bias.

Bife. A counterfeit iewell; also, as Biffe. Bifé: m. ée: f. Rased, defaced, blotted, or put out.

Bifenient: m. A rasing, defacing, blotting, or wiping out.

Biffe: m. A foole, asse, doult, woodcocke, coxcombe, ninny-hammer; also, as Bife; or one that seemes, or would seeme wise, and yet is, and euer will be, foolish.

Biffer. To deface, blot, rase, wipe out.

Bifferie: f. A defacing, rasing, wiping, or blotting out; also, any thing, that though it looke faire, is of little worth.

Biffeure: f. A rasing, defacing, or blotting out.

Biforme: com. Double-formed; that hath, or is of, two seuerall formes, or shapes.

Biformité: f. Biformitie, double forme, a duple or two-*fold shape.

Bifourché: m. ée: f. Double-forked; diuided into, or consisting of, two (forked) parts.

Bifre: m. as Bievre. Biforcation: f. A biforcation; a forking; a forked partition, diuision, or forme.

Bigame: m. Twice married, who hath had two wiues.

Bigarré: m. ée: f. Diuersified, varied, mingled, of many colours, of sundrie hues, motley-like.  Oeil bigarré. Looke Oeil. Bigarreans. A kind of cherries, which be halfe white, halfe red.

Bigarremént: m. A variation, or diuersifying, as in colours.

Bigarrément. Diuersly, of sundrie colours, motley-like.

Bigarrer. To diuersifie, varie, mingle, or make, of sundrie colours.  Bigarrer ses propos. To discourse of diuers and sundrie matters at once; or, to run odly, and fantastically, from one matter vnto another.

Bigarreure: f. Varietie, or diuersitie, as of sundry colours mingled together.

Bigarruge: f. Motley colour. (v.m.) Bigaut: m. An asse, foole, noddie, ninnie; or as Bigot. Bigearre, or Bigerre: com. Odde, humorous, fantasticall.

Bigearrement. Odly, humorously, fantastically.

Bigearrer. as Bigarrer Bigearrure. as Bigarreure; also, odnesse of humor, fantasticalnesse. Bigerrerie: f. A difference, or varietie of colours, fashions, or opinions, in one subiect; also, fantasticalnesse, or odnesse, of humor.

Bigle: com. Skenning, squinting, looking askew, or nine waies at once.

Biglement. Squintingly, skenningly, askew.

Biglesse: f. A squinting wench.

Bigne: f. A bumpe, knob, rising, or swelling after a knocke.

Bigne: com. Club-footed, or crump-footed.

Bignets: m. Little round loaues, or lumpes made of fine meale, oyle, or butter, and reasons; bunnes, Lenten loaues; also, flat fritters made like small pancakes.

Bignoter. as Binoter. Bigorne. A Smiths anuile hauing two horne-like nookes, or corners.

Bigorneau. A Periwincle; or, as Nerite; (¶ Breton.

Bigornet. as Bigorneau.