[Illustration] His achievements are given under the name “Gareth” (q.v.).

Tennyson, in his Gareth and Lynette, makes sir Key tauntingly address Lancelot thus, referring to Gareth: 

  Fair and fine, forsooth! 
  Sir Fine-face, sir Fair-hands?  But see thou to it
  That thine own fineness, Lancelot, some fine day,
  Undo thee not.

Be it remembered that Key himself called Gareth “Beaumain” from the extraordinary size of the lad’s hands; but the taunt put into the mouth of Key by the poet indicates that the lad prided himself on his “fine” face and “fair” hands, which is not the case.  If “fair hands” is a translation of this nickname, it should be “fine hands,” which bears the equivocal sense of big and beautiful.

BEAU’MANOIR (Sir Lucas), Grand-Master of the Knights Templars.—­Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).

BEAUPRE [Bo-pray’], son of judge Vertaigne (2 syl.) and brother of Lami’ra.—­Beaumont and Fletcher, The Little French Lawyer (1647).

BEAUTE (2 syl). La dame de Beaute.  Agnes Sorel, so called from the chateau de Beaute, on the banks of the Marne, given to her by Charles VII. (1409-1450).

BEAUTIFUL CORISANDE (3 syl).  Diane comtesse de Guiche et de Grammont.  She was the daughter of Paul d’Andouins, and married Philibert de Grammont, who died in 1580.  The widow outlived her husband for twenty-six years.  Henri IV., before he was king of Navarre, was desperately smitten by La belle Corisande, and when Henri was at war with the League, she sold her diamonds to raise for him a levy of 20,000 Gascons (1554-1620).

(The letters of Henri to Corisande are still preserved in the Bibliotheque de l’Arsenal, and were published in 1769.)

BEAUTIFUL PARRICIDE (The), Beatrice Cenci, daughter of a Roman nobleman, who plotted the death of her father because he violently defiled her.  She was executed in 1605.  Shelley has a tragedy on the subject, entitled The Cenci.  Guido Reni’s portrait of Beatrice is well known through its numberless reproductions.

BEAUTY (Queen of).  So the daughter of Schems’edeen’ Mohammed, vizier of Egypt, was called.  She married her cousin, Bed’redeen’ Hassan, son of Nour’edeen’ Ali, vizier of Basora.—­Arabian Nights ("Nouredeen Ali,” etc.).

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (La Belle et la Bete’), from Les Contes Marines of Mde.  Villeneuvre (1740), the most beautiful of all nursery tales.  A young and lovely woman saved her father by putting herself in the power of a frightful but kind-hearted monster, whose respectful affection and melancholy overcame her aversion to his ugliness, and she consented to become his bride.  Being thus freed from enchantment, the monster assumed his proper form and became a young and handsome prince.

BEAUTY OF BUTTERMERE (3 syl.), Mary Robinson, who married John Hatfield, a heartless impostor executed for forgery at Carlisle in 1803.