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 Bête_'), 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. BEAUX' STRATAGEM (_The_), by George Farquhar. Thomas viscount Aimwell and his friend Archer (the two beaux), having run through all their money, set out fortune-hunting, and come to Lichfield as "master and man." Aimwell pretends to be very unwell, and as lady Bountiful's hobby is tending the sick and playing the leech, she orders him to be removed to her mansion. Here he and Dorinda (daughter of lady Bountiful) fall in love with each other, and finally marry. Archer falls in love with Mrs. Sullen, the wife of squire Sullen, who had been married fourteen months but agreed to a divorce on the score of incompatibility of tastes and temper. This marriage forms no part of the play; all we are told is that she returns to the roof of her brother, sir Charles Freeman (1707). BEDE (_Adam_ and _Seth_), brothers, carpenters. Seth loves the fair gospeller Dinah Morris, but she marries Adam.--George Eliot, _Adam Bede_. _Bede (Cuthbert_), the Rev. Edward Bradley, author of _The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman_ (1857). BED'ER ("_the full moon_"), son of Gulna'rê (3 syl.), the young king of Persia. As his mother was an under-sea princess, he was enabled to live under water as well as on land. Beder was a young man of handsome person, quick parts, agreeable manners, and amiable disposition. He fell in love with Giauha'rê, daughter of the king of Samandal, the most powerful of the under-sea empires, but Giauharê changed him into a white bird with red beak and red legs. After various adventures, Beder resumed his human form and married Giauharê.--_Arabian Nights_ ("Beder and Giauharê"). BED'IVERE (_Sir_) or BED'IVER, king Arthur's butler and a knight of the Round Table. He was the last of Arthur's knights, and was sent by the dying king to throw his sword Excalibur into the mere. Being cast in, it was caught by an arm "clothed in white samite," and drawn into the stream.--Tennyson, _Morte d'Arthur_. Tennyson's _Morte d'Arthur_ is a very close and in many parts a verbal rendering of the same tale in sir Thomas Malory's _Morte d'Arthur_, iii. 168 (1470).