If thou wilt drink and bemuse thyself with me, we will to-morrow consume some good dish in honour of the peace, and I will hang up my buckler over the smoking hearth.
"The Eleven Comedies"
Aristophanes et al
I am sure that Shakespeare thought of his art as an Ariel-that dainty, delicate spirit, out of the reach of love and desire, that slept in cowslip-bells and chased the flying summer on the bat's back, and that yet had such power to delude and bemuse the human spirit.
"The Upton Letters"
Arthur Christopher Benson