BLIND EMPEROR 
 
 
  Blind Emperor (The), Ludovig III. of 
Germany (880, 890-934). 
 
  Blind Harper (The), John Parry, who 
died 1739. 
  John Stanley, musician and composer, 
was blind from his birth (1713-1786). 
 
  Blind Harry, a Scotch minstrel of the 
fifteenth century, blind from infancy. His 
epic of Sir William Wallace runs to 11,861 
lines. He was minstrel in the court of 
James IV. 
  Blind   Mechanician    (The).   John 
  Strong, a great mechanical genius, was 
blind from his birth. He died at Carlisle, 
aged sixty-six (1732-1798). 
  Blind Poet (The), Luigi Groto, an 
Italian poet called 11 Cieco (1541-1585). 
John Milton (1608-1674). 
  Homer is called The Blind Old Bard (ff. 
B.C. 960). 
 
  Blind    Traveller  (The), lieutenant 
James Holman. He became blind at the 
age of twenty-five, but, notwithstanding, 
travelled round the world, and published 
an account of his travels (1787-1857). 
 
  Blin'kinsop, a smuggler in Redgauntlet, 
a novel by sir W. Scott (time, George III.). 
 
  Blister, the  apothecary, who   says, 
"Without physicians, no one could know 
whether he was well or ill." He courts 
Lucy by talking shop to her.-Fielding, 
The Virgin Unmasked. 
   Blithe-Heart King (The). David is 
 so called by Coedmon. 
 Those lovely lyrics written by his hand 
 Whom Saxon Cdidmon calls "The Blithe-heart 
    King." 
  Longfellow, The Poet's Tale (ref. is to Psalm 
  cxlviii. 9). 
 
 
  Block (Martin), one of the committee 
of the Estates of Burgundy, who refuse 
supplies to Charles the Bold, duke of Bur- 
gundy.-Sir W. Scott, Anne of Geierstein 
(time, Edward IV.). 
 
   Blok (Nikkel), the butcher, one of the 
insurgents at Liege.-Sir W. Scott, Quentin 
Durward (time, Edward IV.). 
 
  Blondel de Nesle [Neel], the favorite 
trouv6re or minstrel of Richard Cceur de 
Lion. He chanted the Bloody Vest in pres- 
ence of queen Berengaria, the lovely Edith 
Plantagenet.-Sir W. Scott, The Talisman 
(time, Richard I.). 
 
  Blon'dina, the mother of Fairstar and 
two boys at one birth. She was the wife 
of a king, but the queen-mother hated her, 
and taking away the three babes substi- 
tuted three puppies. Ultimately her chil- 
dren were restored to her, and the queen- 
mother with her accomplices were duly 
punished.-Comtesse    D'Aunoy,   Fairy 
Tales (" Princess Fairstar," 1682). 
 
  Blood (Colonel Thomas), emissary of the 
duke of Buckingham (1628-1680), intro- 
duced by sir W. Scott in Peveril of the 
Peak, a novel (time, Charles II.). 
 
  Bloods (The Five): (1) The O'Neils of 
Ulster; (2) the O'Connors of Connaught; 
(3) the O'Brians of Thomond; (4) the 
O'Lachlans of Meath; and (5) the M'Mur- 
roughs of Leinster. These are the five 
principal septs or families of Ireland, and 
all not belonging to one of these five septs 
are accounted aliens or enemies, and could 
"neither sue nor be sued," even down to 
the reign of Elizabeth. 
  William Fitz-Roger, being arraigned (4th 
Edward II.) for the murder of Roger de 
Cantilon, pleads that he was not guilty of 
felony, because his victim was not of "free 
 
 
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