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Belvideʹra (in Otway’s Venice Preserved)

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Sir Walter Scott says, “More tears have been shed for the sorrows of Belvideʹra and Monimʹia than for those of Juliet and Desdemona.”

“And Belvidera pours her soul in love.”


Thomson: Winter.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Below the Belt
Belphegor
Belphœbe
Belt
Beltane
Belted Knight
Belted Will
Beltenebros
Belvawney (Miss)
Belvedere [bel-ve-dear]
Belvidera (in Otway’s Venice Preserved)
Bemuse
Ben
Ben (a theatrical word)
Ben Jochanan
Ben trovato (Italian)
Benaiah
Benares
Benbow (Admiral)
Benbow
Bench