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Then Jacob said, I pray thee bring them nigh To me, and I will bless them e'er I die. And Joseph from between his knees brought forth His sons, and bow'd himself even to the earth: And in his right hand held up Ephraim, Towards his father's left hand guiding him And in his left hand to his father's right, He held his son Manasseh opposite.
The court in Normandy was extremely angry with him at periodical intervals, but apparently could do nothing to assert itself. When it raged, La Bruyère was like the East in Matthew Arnold's poem, he "bow'd low before the blast in patient, deep disdain." He lived through these quiet years in one apartment after another in the heart of Paris.
Thus condemn'd, The current of my former life was stemm'd, And to this arbitrary queen of sense I bow'd a tranced vassal." KEATS, Endymion. "I am the resurrection and the life." "Esther Esther! Speak to the servant below that he may bring me a cup of water." "Would you not rather have wine, father?" "Let him bring both."
And 'tis my Friend too that's become my Rival. I saw her lovely Eyes still turn on him, As Flowers to th'Sun: and when he turn'd away Like those she bow'd her charming head again.
'To win me from his tender arms, Unnumber'd suitors came; Who prais'd me for imputed charms, And felt or feign'd a flame. 'Each hour a mercenary crowd, With richest proffers strove: Among the rest young Edwin bow'd, But never talk'd of love. 'In humble simplest habit clad, No wealth nor power had he; Wisdom and worth were all he had, But these were all to me.
They spoke to me in a Language I did not understand, but the Tone of their Voices, and the Smoothness of their Syllables, were divinely harmonious. I bow'd my Body to the Ground three times, and offer'd my Credentials, which one of them took, but by the shaking of his Head, I found understood nothing of the Contents.
Every inquiring glance, however, remain'd unsatisfied, for at the end of the hour, Tim remain'd with his face completely hidden, and his head bow'd in his arms, precisely as he had lean'd himself when he first went to his seat. Lugare look'd at the boy occasionally with a scowl which seem'd to bode vengeance for his sullenness.
He felt very strangely, dizzily more as if he was in a dream than in real life; and laying his arms on his desk, bow'd down his face between them. The pupils turn'd to their accustom'd studies, for during the reign of Lugare in the village-school, they had been so used to scenes of violence and severe chastisement, that such things made but little interruption in the tenor of their way.
And when the time approach'd that he must die, He called Joseph, unto whom he said, If I Have now found favour in thy sight, I pray, Swear thou unto me that thou wilt not lay My bones in Egypt, for I fain would lie Among my ancestors when e'er I die, And not be bury'd here; therefore fulfil This my desire; and he reply'd, I will: And he said, Swear unto me, which he did: Then Jacob bow'd himself upon his bed.
In the Masques the Pantomimic dances of the Masquers were known as motions: "In curious knot and mazes so The Spring at first was taught to go; And Zephyr, when he came to woo His Flora had his motions too; And thus did Venus learn to lead The Idalian brawls, and so to tread, As if the wind, not she did walk, Nor press'd a flower, nor bow'd a stalk."
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