Where does the phrase "bear with me" come from?

[TheMine]

I'd love to know.......cheers folks.

[confused79]

There are actually three words here. The simple one is the big growly creature (unless you prefer the Winnie-the-Pooh type). Hardly anyone past the age of ten gets that one wrong. The problem is the other two. Stevedores bear burdens on their backs and mothers bear children. Both mean �carry� (in the case of mothers, the meaning has been extended from carrying the child during pregnancy to actually giving birth). But strippers bare their bodies�sometimes bare-naked. The confusion between this latter verb and �bear� creates many unintentionally amusing sentences; so if you want to entertain your readers while convincing them that you are a dolt, by all means mix them up. �Bear with me,� the standard expression, is a request for forbearance or patience. �Bare with me� would be an invitation to undress. �Bare� has an adjectival form: �The pioneers stripped the forest bare.�

Dont know if it makes sense but this is what i found???

I use it all the time at work when talking to customers!!! lol

[RATTER15]

not that confused then lol

[Quizmonster]

"Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar
And I must pause till it come back to me."
These are the words of Mark Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and that is the earliest recorded use of the phrase 'bear with me'. In a sense, therefore, that is "where it came from".
More generally, 'bear' had meant 'be patient' for some time before Shakespeare wrote these specific words.

[VS Prasad]

One of the many meanings of the verb "to bear" is to "To press, force one's way against resistance; to move with effort, with persistence, or with a distinct bias in some direction". So "bear with me" means persist in me in something, a line of reasoning, perhaps. It's also to "bear in mind" as in to bear or carry some though in mind.

[shybillyboy]

were dose the saying bear with me come from