beat “on,” to be
busy on, to hammer on:
“Do not infest your mind with beating on The strangeness,”
THE TEMPEST, v. 1. 246
;
“thine eyes and thoughts Beat on a crown,”
2 HENRY VI., ii. 1. 20
;
“Whereon his brains still beating,”
HAMLET, iii. 1. 174
;
“this her mind beats upon,”
THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, iv. 3.
79.