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Wel, sayd Arthur, thou hast said thy message, ye whiche is ye most vylaynous and lewdest message that ever man herd sent unto a kynge. Also thou mayst see, my berd is ful yong yet to make a purfyl of hit. But telle thou thy kynge this, I owe hym none homage, ne none of myn elders, but, or it be longe to, he shall do me homage on bothe his kneys, or else he shall lese his hede by ye feith of my body, for this is ye most shamefullest message that ever I herd speke of. I have aspyed, thy kyng met never yet with worshipful men; but tell hym, I wyll have his hede without he doo me homage. Thenne ye messager departed. (
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The Byrth, Lyf and Actes of Kyng Arthur,
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To make any one's beard is an old saying, which means
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or
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In faith he shal not kepe me, but me lest: Yet coude I make his berd, so mete I the
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Reve's Tale,
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I trow, the clerkes were aferde Yet can a miller make a clerkes bearde, For all his art.
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To beard a person, meaning to affront him, or to set him at defiance. Todd explains the allusion in a note in his edition of Spenser's _Faerie Queene_--
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; so Shakespeare's _King Henry IV._, Part I. Act i.:
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I beard thee to thy face --Fr.
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Faire la Barbe à quelqu'un. Ital.
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Fa la barbe ad uno