BEARDED (_The_). (1) Geoffrey the crusader. (2) Bouchard of the house of Montmorency. (3) Constantine IV. (648-685). (4) Master George Killingworthe of the court of Ivan _the Terrible_ of Russia, whose beard (says Hakluyt) was five feet two inches long, yellow, thick, and broad. Sir Hugh Willoughby was allowed to take it in his hand. _The Bearded Master_. Soc'ratês was so called by Persius (B.C. 468-399). _Handsome Beard_, Baldwin IV. earl of Flanders (1160-1186). _John the Bearded_, John Mayo, the German painter, whose beard touched the ground when he stood upright. BEARNAIS (_Le_), Henri IV. of France, so called from his native province, Le Béarr. (1553-1610). BEATON, the artist of _Every Other Week_, the story of which periodical is told in W. D. Howells's _A Hazard of New Fortunes_ (1889). His name was Beaton--Angus Beaton. His father was a Scotchman, but Beaton was born in Syracuse, New York, and it had taken only three years to obliterate many traces of native and ancestral manner in him. He wore his thick beard cut shorter than his moustache, and a little pointed; he stood with his shoulders well thrown back, and with a lateral curve of his person when he talked about art which would alone have carried conviction, even if he had not had a thick, dark bang coming almost to the brows of his mobile gray eyes, and had not spoken English with quick, staccato impulses, so as to give it the effect of epigrammatic and sententious French. BE'ATRICE (3 _syl_.), a child eight years old, to whom Dantê at the age of nine was ardently attached. She was the daughter of Folco Portina'ri, a rich citizen of Florence. Beatrice married Simoni de Bardi, and died before she was twenty-four years old (1266-1290). Dantê married Gemma Donati, and his marriage was a most unhappy one. His love for Beatrice remained after her decease. She was the fountain of his poetic inspiration, and in his _Divina Commedia_ he makes her his guide through paradise. Dantê's Beatrice and Milton's Eve Were not drawn from their spouses you conceive. Byron, _Don Juan_, iii. 10 (1820). (Milton, who married Mary Powell, of Oxfordshire, was as unfortunate in his choice as Dantê.) _Beatrice_, wife of Ludov'ico Sforza. _Beatrice_, daughter of Ferdinando king of Naples, sister of Leonora duchess of Ferrara, and wife of Mathias Corvi'nus of Hungary.