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Billy Blind (also
known as
Billy Blin,
Billy Blynde,
Billie Blin, or
Belly Blin) is an
English and
Lowland Scottish household spirit, much like a brownie...
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shewed unto us that our
Servant and
Sollicitor Thomas Lynom merveillously blynded and
abused with the late wife of
William S**** nowe
being in
Ludgate by...
- Barclay’s The Shyp of Folys: And ye
Jentyl wymen whome this
lewde vice doth
blynde Lased on the backe: your
peakes set a loft. Ely Guv
Hintonith and M. Michael...
- ye
prolle ay, ye shul it
nevere fynde. Ye been as
boold as is
Bayard the
blynde. That
blondreth forth and
peril casteth noon." ("Though you
search afar...
- Marginalia,
accessed 03-10-2008 Stanley, E. The
Verse Forms of Jon the
Blynde Awdelay in
Cooper &
Mapstone (eds.) The Long
Fifteenth Century, Oxford:...
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impairment was not seen in
Medieval language, but
rather terms such as "
blynde", "dumbe", and "lame" were seen to
attribute those with
physical impairments...
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whenne þe
blynde ledeth þe
blynde, In to þe
dyche þey
fallen boo, For þey ne sen
whare by to go. So
faren prestes now by dawe; They beth
blynde in goddes...
- have, To pray for hym specialy, That hyt made ȝour
soules to save, Jon the
blynde Awdelay The
furst prest to the Lord
Strange he was, Of thys chauntré here...
