Bright, shining, luminous, clear, splendid: “the b. sun,” Ven. 485. H8 V, 5, 51. “the b. track of his fiery car,” R3 V, 3, 20. R2 III, 3, 67. “moon,” LLL V, 2, 205. “star,” Ven. 815. Ven. 815 Lucr. 13. Mids. III, 2, 60. All's I, 1, 97. H6A I, 1, 56. I, 2, 144. “beams,” All's V, 3, 34. R3 I, 3, 268. “day,” Lucr. 1518. H6B II, 4, 1. Caes. II, 1, 14. Ant. V, 2, 193. “heaven,” Ant. V, 2, 193. “eye,” Ven. 140. Lucr. 1213. Sonn. 1, 5. 20, 5. 43, 4. Mids. II, 2, 92. R2 III, 3, 69. weapons or “swords,” Lucr. 1432. John IV, 3, 79. R2 III, 2, 111. Oth. I, 2, 59. “glass,” Pilgr. 87. “pearl,” Pilgr. 87 “gold,” Merch. V, 59. Tim. IV, 3, 383. “metal,” H4A I, 2, 236. “hair,” R3 I, 4, 53. Troil. IV, 2, 113. “made Lud's town with rejoicing fires b.” Cymb. III, 1, 32 etc. “-- b. Phoebus,” Wint. IV, 4, 124. “Apollo,” LLL IV, 3, 343. “Diana,” Per. III, 3, 28. “angels are b.” Mcb. IV, 3, 22. cf. Rom. II, 2, 26 and H8 IV, 2, 88.
Hence == of splendid beauty: “thy b. beauty,” Lucr. 490. “I tell the day, to please him thou art b.” Sonn. 28, 9. 147, 13. Pilgr. 87. “she is too b. to be looked against,” Wiv. II, 2, 254. “so quick b. things come to confusion,” Mids. I, 1, 149. III, 2, 60. “since her time are colliers counted b.” LLL IV, 3, 267. “thou wilt show more b. and seem more virtuous when she is gone,” As I, 3, 83. “I will be b., and shine in pearl and gold,” Tit. II, 1, 19.
And == illustrious, glorious: “wisdom wishes to appear most b. when it doth tax itself,” Meas. II, 4, 78. “Troy had been b. with fame and not with fire,” Lucr. 1491. “b. fame,” H6A IV, 6, 45. “honour,” H4A I, 3, 202. Troil. III, 3, 151
Likewise == cheerful, gay: “be b. and jovial,” Mcb. III, 2, 28. “my fancy, more b. in zeal than the devotion which cold lips blow to their deities,” Troil. IV, 4, 28 (but here the simile may be a burning flame).
Used adverbially: “she reflects so b.” Lucr. 376. “shine b.” Sonn. 55, 3. 65, 14. LLL IV, 3, 30. Mids. V, 278. Merch. V, 1. Shr. IV, 5, 2. Shr. IV, 5, 2 Shr. IV, 5, 2 Wint. V, 1, 95. H5 V, 2, 172. “burn b.” H6B V, 1, 3. Tit. I, 324. Rom. I, 5, 46.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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