We are much of the mind of Falstaff’s tailor. 
  We must have better assurance for sir John than
  Bardolph’s.—­Macaulay.

(The reference is to 2 Henry IV. act i. sc. 2.  When Falstaff asks Page, “What said Master Dumbleton about the satin for my short cloak and slops!” Page replies, “He said, sir, you should procure him better assurance than Bardolph.  He ... liked not the security.”)

BARDON (Hugh), the scout-master in the troop of lieutenant Fitzurse.—­Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).

BAREFOOT BOY, reminiscence of the author’s own boyhood in Whittier’s poem, The Barefoot Boy.

  Prince thou art,—­the grown-up man
  Only is republican.

BARERE (2 syl.), an advocate of Toulouse, called “The Anacreon of the Guillotine.”  He was president of the Convention, a member of the Constitutional Committee, and chief agent in the condemnation to death of Louis XVI.  As member of the Committee of Public Safety, he decreed that “Terror must be the order of the day.”  In the first empire Barere bore no public part, but at the restoration he was banished from France, and retired to Brussels (1755-1841).

  The filthiest and most spiteful Yahoo of the
  fiction was a noble creature compared with the
  Barere of history.—­Lord Macaulay.

BARFUeSLE, pretty German child, left an orphan at a tender age, and cast upon the world.  She maintains herself reputably and resists many temptations until she is happily married.—­Bernard Auerbach, Barfuesle.

BAR’GUEST, a goblin armed with teeth and claws.  It would sometimes set up in the streets a most fearful scream in the “dead waste and middle of the night.”  The faculty of seeing this monster was limited to a few, but those who possessed it could by the touch communicate the “gift” to others.—­Fairy Mythology, North of England.

BAR’GULUS, an Illyrian robber or pirate.

  Bargulus, Illyrius latro, de quo est apud Theopompum
  magnas opes habuit.—­Cicero, De Officiis,
  ii. 11.

BARICONDO, one of the leaders of the Moorish army.  He was slain by the duke of Clarence.—­Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516).

BARKER (.Mr.), friend to Sowerberry. Mrs. Barker, his wife.—­W.  Brough, A Phenomenon in a Smock Frock.

BAR’KIS, the carrier who courted [Clara] Peggot’ty, by telling David Copperfield when he wrote home to say to his nurse “Barkis is willin’.”  Clara took the hint and became Mrs. Barkis.

He dies when the tide goes out, confirming the superstition that people can’t die till the tide goes out, or be born till it is in.  The last words he utters are “Barkis is willin’.”—­C.  Dickens, David Copperfield, xxx. (1849).

(Mrs. Quickly says of sir John Falstaff, “’A parted even just between twelve and one, e’en at the turning o’ the tide.”—­Henry V. act ii. sc. 3, 1599.)