The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear.
Cowper.
Both bear and forbear.
Old Proverb.
For*bear", v. t. 1. To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to
give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubtful propriety.
But let me that plunder forbear.
Shenstone.
The King In open battle or the tilting field Forbore his own
advantage.
Tennyson.