be gone

be gone

1. Alternative form of begone.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 157, column 1:

     Fairies be gone, and be alwaies away.

   • 1660 April 23, a Rural Pen [pseudonym; Robert Wild], Iter Boreale. Attempting Somthing upon the Successful and Matchless March of the Lord General George Monck, from Scotland, to London, the Last Winter, &c., London: , page 3:

     Melpomene, be gone; / Hag of my Fancy, let me now alone: / Night-mare my ſoul no more; Go take thy flight / Where Traytors Ghoſts keep an eternal night; […]

   • 1709, Susanna Centlivre, The Busie Body‎:

     Sir Fran. But me no Buts Be gone, Sir: Dare to ask me for Money agen Refuse Forty Thousand Pound! Out of my Doors, I say, without reply.

   • 1750, Joseph Bellamy, “Discourse I. Shewing the Nature of the Divine Law, and wherein Consists a Real Conformity to It.”, in True Religion Delineated; or, Experimental Religion, , Boston, Mass.: S. Kneeland, , →OCLC, section II (Shewing from what Motives True Love to God Takes Its Rise), pages 53–54:

     Be gone, thou impudent VVretch, to Hell, thy proper Place: thou art a Deſpiſer of my glorious Majeſty, and your Frame of Spirit ſavours of Blaſphemy.

   • 1996, Anthony Corbeill, Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 70–71; translating Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis, 415 CE:

     Be gone [translating exī], whether born today or earlier, whether created today or earlier: with this formula I call out, lead out, and sing out from the limbs and marrow of this person here this disease, plague, pain, polyp, redness, goiters, tonsils, inflammation, growths, tumor, and swelling.

   • 2011, A. K. Wrox, Arrabella Candellarbra & The Questy Thing to End All Questy Things‎, Clan Destine Press, →ISBN:

     'Be gone tartlets! Your feminine charms hold no power over me,' he said, tears of laughter falling down his face to drip from his pointed little chin. 'You should know I prefer quiche to tarts.'

   • 2019 October 31, Emma Madden, “TikTok has broken rap music”, in Wired UK‎, →ISSN:

     While you’ll find a giddy variety of sounds on TikTok – ranging from the classic ('Paint It Black' by the Rolling Stones is currently trending) to the extremely memey (‘Be Gone Thot’ by an alien influencer called Lil Mayo) – the most consistently trending sounds tend to err towards the childlike.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see be,‎ gone.
   • 1962, Bob Dylan, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right:

     When your rooster crows at the break o' dawn
     Look out your windo' and I'll be gone
     You're the reason I'm a travelin' on
     But don't think twice, it's all right.

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