Thus I say therefore and testify in the Lord that ye hencefarth walke not as other Gentyles walke, in the vanytie of their mynde, blindeth i their vnderstandyng, beynge rangers from the lyfe whych is in God thorow the rance that is in them because of the blyndnes of theyr heartes-Bible, 1551. Ib.

And the men that heelden him scorniden him: and smyten him. And thei blindfelden him: and smyten his face. Wiclif. Luke, c. 22. Ard the men that stode about Jesus mocked him, and mote him, and blyndefolded him and smote his face. Bible, 1551. Ib.

Thus the professors of wisdom, like the foolish Harpaste that Seneca speaks of, who insensible of her own blindness always complained the sun was down and the house dark, thought all things were left at random, in loose disorder, and confusion here below.

Bates. Spiritual Perfection Unfolded, c. 7.

His exhortation therefore was, "Repent ye;" renounce those vices and abominations which at present blind your eyes and cloud your understandings, and then you will be able to see the truth and bear the light.

Porteus, vol. i. Lect. 3.

If I have an ancient window overlooking my neighbour's ground, he may not erect any blind to obstruct the light. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 26.

I never heard it prescribed as a recipe for strengthening the sight, to keep constantly blindfolded in the day-time, and put on spectacles when we go to sleep. Beattie. On Truth, pt. iii. c. 1.

One month passes and another comes on; the year ends and then begins: but man is still unchanging in folly, still blindly continuing in prejudice.

Goldsmith. Citizen of the World, Let. 94.

BLINK, v. To blink, A. S. Bli-can, coBLINK, n. ruscare, micare, is to give to BLINKARD. the eye the twinkling motion BLINKER. or action of any thing glitterBLINKING, n. ing, e. g. a star; to twinkle, to wink; to look with the eye partially closed, to close the eye partially; and as this is frequently done to avoid any sudden action upon the eye; to blench (so Gower writes it) or blink, is consequentially—

To avoid, or cause to avoid, to evade, to escape, to elude, to shun, shrink or start from. See to BLANCH and to BLENCH.

A blink; a quick opening and shutting of the eye; a quick short sight or view; a glimpse, or glance, a wink, a twinkle.

Blinker, one who blinks; also that which screens, (sc.) to prevent blinking.

Than vpon him she kest vp bothe her eyne
And with a blinke it come in till his thought
That he somtime her face before had seen,
But she was in such plite he knew her nougt,
Yet than her loke into his minde he brought,
The swete visage, and amorous blenking
Of faire Creseide, sometime his own darling.

Chaucer. The Complaint of Crescide. Brayneles blynkardes that blowe at the cole.

Skelton. The Crowne of Laurell. Remembre Batte the foolish blink-eyed boye Which was at Rome, thou knowest whome I meane. Gascoigne. Hecarbes.

That such a mon schulde in helle be, he carede in hys thogte,

The soule thorth Gode's grace out of helle he brogte,
And to ys body hym joyned, & gef hym Christendom,
War with, as he worthi was, to blisse of heueh he com.
R. Gloucester, p. 71.
Thorgh tithing brouht bitide the Scottis wist of this
Ilk Scotte on his side mad therof joy and blis.

R. Brunne, p. 297.

Alle these thingis I schewide to ghou, for so it behoueth men traueilynge to resseyue syke men, and to haue mynde of the word of the Lord Ihesu, for he seide, it is more biisful to ghyue than to resseyve.-Wiclif. Dedis. c. 20.

Thise glade folk to dinner ben ysette,
In joy and blisse at mete I let hem dwell,
A thousand fold wel more than I can tell.

Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5538. And sithen we know well, that mony a manne hath sought the fruict of blisfulnesse, not only with sufferyng of death, but eke with sufferyng of paynes and tourments: how might then this present life make men blisful, sens that thilke selfe life ended, it ne maketh folk no wretches. Id. Boecius, b. ii. p. 218. But Christ answeared, Naie, blissed be they that heare the Woorde of God, and keepe the same. Jewell. Replie to Hardinge, p. 600.

The nearenesse of mothers bloude should haue profited Christes mother nothinge at al, onlesse she had more blissedly carried Christe in her harte, then in her bodie.-Id. Ib.

For it ought not to seme vnto you a greate or grevous matter, though by afflictions and griefes that are but shorte and shall soone haue an ende, you come to the blissednesse that neuer shall decaye.-Udal. 1 Pet. c. 1.

But the death of christians is nothyng else but a slepe, from the whiche they shall awake agayne at the commyng of Christ, to lyue a great deale more blissfully.

Id. Thess. c. 4.

For if it be so, that the heavens have at all time a measure of their wrathful harms, surely so many have come to my blissles lot, that the rest of the world hath too small a portion, to make with cause so wilful a lamentation.

Sidney. Arcadia, b. iii. Of him she thinks she cannot think too much; This honey tasted still is ever sweet; The pleasure of her ravish'd thought is such, As almost here she with her bliss doth meet.

Davies. The Immortality of the Soul, s. 30. If Love's sweet music, and his blissful cheer, E'er touch'd your hearts, or mollify'd your ear; Tender the case, and evermore the wed Shall praise your conscience both at board and bed. Drayton. The Owl.

Jago. Ardenna.

BLIST, v. What Spenser meant by this word is not evident. Certainly not wounded, from Cotgrave's Blesser, to wound; for not a wound was given. It is written either with the i or e, and may be merely the verb.

To blast, to strike suddenly, violently; to strike, to hurt; or beat about.

The villaine, leauing him vnto his mate
To be captiu'd, and handled as he list,
Himselfe addrest vnto this new debate,
And with his club him all about so blist,

That he which way to turne him scarcely wist:

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At last, the caytiue after long discourse,
When all his strokes he saw avoided quite, &c.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 8.
Their shining shieldes about their wrestes they tye,
And burning blades about their heades do blesse,
The instruments of wrath and heavinesse.

Id. Ib. b. i. c. 5.

They gave me no leisure, answered Sancho, to look to them so nearly, for scarce had I laid hand on my truncheon, when they blest my shoulders with their pines, in such sort as they wholly deprived me of my sight, and the force of my feet together.-Shelton. Don Quixote, b. iii. c. 1,

And after, whan it was recorded
Unto the doughter, howe it stoode,
The yefte of all this worldes good
Ne shuld haue made hir halfe so blithe.

Gower. Con. A. b. viii.
Would'st see blithe looks, fresh cheeks, beguile
Age, would'st see December smile?

Crashaw. In Praise of Lessius. Droope not for that (man) but unpleate thy browes, And blithly, so, fold envies up in pleats: For, fro' thy makings, milke and melly flowes,

To feed the songster-swaines with art's soot-meats. Browne. An Eclogue. The delightfulness and blithness of their [poets] compositions, invites most men to be frequently conversant with them, either in songs, or upon the stage, or in other poems. Digby. On the Soul, c. 3. Short are our joys, and neighbouring griefs disturb Our pleasant hours! inclement winter dwells Contiguous; forthwith frosty blasts deface The blithsome year. Philips. Cider, b. ii. Then follows blithe, equipt with fork and rake, In light array, the train of nymphs and swains. Dodsley. Agriculture, c. 3. Now the hill-the hedge-is green,

Now the Warbler's throat's in tune! Blithsome is the verdant scene,

Brighten'd by the beams of noon.-Cunningham. Noon. BLIVE. See BELIVE.

Skinner; from Dut. Blosen, to blush. It is very probably Blowed, blowt, bloat; i. e. blown, swelled, puffed out; meaning

BLOAT, v.
BLOAT, adj.
BLOATEDNESS.

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To blow out, swell, or puff out, be or become Swollen or tumid.

Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed. Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act iii. sc. 4. Groome. Who you? you a masque? why you stinke like so many bloat-herrings newly taken out of the chimney! B. Jonson. The Masque of Augures. Then damn not, but indulge his rude essays, Encourage him, and bloat him up with praise, That he may get more bulk before he dies. Dryden. Prologue to Circe. Fast by her side a listless maiden pin'd, With aching head, and squeamish heart-burnings; Pale, bloated, cold, she seem'd to hate mankind, Yet lov'd in secret, all forbidden things.

They make a wit of their insipid friend; His blobber-lips and beetle-brows commend. Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 3. Block is, be-lock, block; from the A. S. Lycan, belucan ; Dut. Be-luycken, claudere, concludere, occludere, obserare; to shut, to close, to shut up, to lock, (Somner.) See Lock.

A block of wood, or other substance; i. e. a piece suited, fitted, to shut up, or close up, to include or ex

This kynge the wether gan beholde,
And wist well, thei moten holde
Her cours endlonge the marche right,
And made vpon the darke night,
Of great shydes and of blockes,
Great fire agein in the great rockes,
To shew vpon the hilles high:

So that the flete of Grece it sigh.-Gower. Con. A. b. ii.

His brother the erle, [of Pembroke] when he should laye doune his hed on the blocke to suffer, said to Syr Jhon Conyers and Clappam, masters, let me dye for I am olde, but saue my brother, which is younge, lusty and hardye, mete and apte to serue the greatest prince of Christendo.

Hall. Edw. IV. an. 8. I would not call it heresye, if one woulde translate presbyteros a blocke: but I would say he were a blockhead. And as very a blockhead were he, that would translate presbyteros an elder, instead of a priest, for that this English woorde elder, signifyeth no more a prieste, then this Greke woorde presbyteros signifieth an elder stick.

Sir T. More. Workes, p. 425. It shall suffice that the contentions passed in verse long sithens, between M. Churchyard and Camel, were by a headed reader construed to be indeede a quarel between two neighbours, of whom one hauing a camel in keeping, and the other hauing the charge of the churchyard, it was supposed they had growen to debate, because the camel came into the churchyard.

Gascoigne. To the Youth of England.

And except he defende them by his aungels, in uayne gather they treasure, in uayne buylde they blokhouses and municions.-Joye. The Exposicion of Daniel, c. 5.

The common sort of strangers, and the off-skowring mariners, hearing of this rare miracle of nature [Mour Hecla] by an inbred and naturall blockishnesse are carrie to this imagination of a prison of soules.

Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 559

On the side of which port, trending in forme of an half moone, stand fiue blockehouses or small forts, wherein is som very good artillery, and the forts are kept with about a hundred Janisaries.-Id. Ib. vol. ii. p. 268.

After the sacking thereof they had in a greedie endevou burnt it quite, but that by blocking up the avenues they were driven backe, and so they made havocke of whatsoever could be found without the towne.

Holland. Ammianus, p. 66

And beginning from the city of Cencress unto the ha ven of Lecheum, they shut and blocked up all the ways from the one sea to the other, with mighty great pieces o timber across, and with a marvellous deep ditch.

North. Plutarch, p. 926.

BLOCK, v. BLOCK, n. BLOCKA'DE, v. BLOCKA'DE, N. BLOCKISH. BLOCKISHLY. BLOCKISHNESS. BLOCKHEAD. BLOCKHEADED. BLOCKHEADLY, BLOCKHEADISM. He [Aristotle] tells us, that a statue lies hid in a block o clude, to obstruct. marble, and that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figur A block, as well as blockhead, is applied (met,) is in the stone, the sculptor only finds it. What sculptur to any one who has the lumpishness, the heavi-is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul. ness, the dulness of a block; whose faculties seem Spectator, No. 215 blocked up; whose understanding is inaccessible. Last night arriv'd a mail from Lisbon, which gives a very pleasing account of the posture of affairs in that part of the world, the enemy having been necessitated wholly to aban don the blockade of Olivensa.-Tatler, No. 51.

To blockade; Fr. Bloquer. To shut in, or block up, to besiege, beset, or compass on all sides, (Cotgrave.)

How many princes of the blood (whereof some of them for age could hardly crawl towards the block,) with a world of others of all degrees (of whom our common chronicles have kept the account) did he [Henry VIII.] execute. Ralegh. History of the World, Pref

While passers by

Slightly look in your lovely face, where I
See beauteous heaven, whilst silly blockheads, they,
Like laden asses, plod upon their way,
And wonder not.

Drayton. Elegies. Of his Lady's not coming to London

Like as temperance, a mediocrity between the blockis? stupidity of the mind moved with no touch of pleasure, and an unbridled loosenesse whereby it is abandoned to all sen suality.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 57.

Only feare, which being no less void of audacity and bold nesse, than of reason; carrieth with it a certain blockish nesse or stupidity destitute of action.-Id. Ib. p. 214.

Am I twice sand-blind? twice so near the blessing I would arrive at? and block-like never know it?

Beaum. & Fletch. The Pilgrim, Act iv. sc. 1 With moles the opening flood he would restrain, Would block the port, and intercept the main. Rowe. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. ii

Prompt at the call, around the goddess roll
Broad hats, and hoods, and caps, a sable shoal:
Thick and more thick the black blockade extends,
A hundred head of Aristotle's friends.

Pope. The Dunciad, b. iv.

A block-head, with melodious voice,
In boarding-schools may have his choice;
And oft the dancing master's art
Climbs from the toe to touch the heart.

Swift. Cadenus & Vanessa. Some fool, some mere elder brother, or some blockheadly | hero,

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Jove, I beseech thee, send her.

Dryden. Amphitryon, Act i. s. 2. To these stones are added large blocks, which, when the whole shall be completed, will give it the appearance of an island just emerged from the ocean!

Melmoth. Pliny, b. vi. Let. 31.

He [Col. Briggs] mustered a party, which he thought sufficient, and went himself on the enterprise. How it was conducted, my authority does not inform us-whether he got together the navigation of the lake, and blockaded the place by sea; or whether, he landed, and carried on his apblock-proaches in form.-Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes.

One would think from the speech of this learned lord Mayor, that the Parisians, for this twelvemonth past, had been suffering the straits of some dreadful blockade.. Burke. On the French Revolution.

And yet, whatever the reader may think of himself, it is at least two to one but he is a greater blockhead than the most scribbling dunce he ants to despise.

Goldsh. On Polite Learning, c. 10.

He may truly be said to have been alive, when animated by Addison and Steele, though now reduced to that state of blockheadism, which is so conspicuous in his master. Smart. Notes to the Hilliad.

The division that nature herself makes of human blood, when being let out of the veins it is suffered to refrigerate and settle, is into a fluid or serous, and a consistent or fibrous part.-Boyle. Works, vol. iv. p. 611.

Blood is the most universal juice in an animal body, and from which all the rest are derived: the red part differs from the serum; the serum, from the lymph; the lymph, from the nervous juice; and that, from the several other humours that are separated in the glands.

Arbuthnot. On Aliments, c. 4.

The public mischief was his private gain;
Children their slaughter'd parent sought in vain,
A brother here his poison'd brother wept;
Some bloodless dy'd, and some by opium slept.

BLOOM, v. BLOOM, n. BLOOMING, n. BLOOMY.

Dryden. The Art of Poetry, c. 4.

Goth. Bloma; A. S. Blosm, blosmian; Dut. Bloeme, Ger. Blume. Skinner thinks from Blaen, tumescere; Wachter,

from Blasen, flare, spirare; quia spirat (sc. flos.) odorem. In P. Holland we find "the Bloumesmithie." Somner gives, "Blotsmian, florere, gemmare, germinare; to bud, to blossom, to bear flowers, to bloome, to flourish." See BLOW.

To bloom is to blow, to put forth, to throw forth flowers; to have the hue, the complexion, the sweetness, the freshness, of flowers just blown, or thrown forth: and thus

To flourish; to be in full vigour; in the full vigour of health, beauty, reputation.

In that gere it sais, the pape had grete despite
Thorgh the Columpneis, cardinalles of habite,
Thie were born in Rome alle the Columpneis,
That kynde bare the blome, riche men & curteis.
R. Brunne, p. 322.
Well now I neede not feare, these posies here to prayse,
Bicause I knew them euery flower, and where they grew
alwayes.

And sure for my conceyt, euen when they bloomed first Methought they smelt not much amisse, no not the very worst.-Gascoigne. Commendatory Verses.

We found it all full of goodly trees, medowes, fields full of wild corne and peason bloomed, as thick, as ranke, and as faire as any can be seene in Britaine.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 205.

Men have devised also to make the females fruitfull, by casting upon them the bloomes and downe that the male beareth, yea and otherwhiles by strewing the powder which he yieldeth, upon them.-Holland. Plinie, b. xiii. c. 4.

Exceeding light it is, and apt to mount aloft with the smoake of the bloume smithie, very speedily, yea, and ready to flie out of the surface.-Id. b. xxxiv. c. 12. The lively sap creeps up Into the blooming thorn.

The flowers, which cold in prison kept,
Now laughs the frost to scorn.

R. Edwards. May. Ellis, vol. ii.
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray
Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still,
Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill,
While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.

Milton, Son. 1. Thus did his adversaries reap dishonour and reproach in their victory, while he received triumphant applauses in his overthrow, like some flowers which are sweeter in their fall than others in their bloom.-Oldys. Life of Ralegh.

Ah me! the blooming pride of May,
And that of beauty, are but one:
At morn both flourish bright and gay;
Both fade at evening, pale, and gone.

Prior. The Garland.

Swiftly it falls, and as it falls invades
The rising herb, or breaks the spreading blades.
While infant flowers that rais'd their bloomy heads,
Crush'd by its fury, sink into their beds.

Broome. Ecclesiasticus, c. 43.

Beyond the dim horizon far,

That bounds the mortal eye, A better country blooms to view, Beneath a brighter sky.-Logan. A Tale. Some few there are of sordid mould, Who barter youth and bloom for gold; Careless with what or whom they mate, Their ruling passion's all for state.-Cotton. Marriage.

He, ere one flow'ry season fades and dies,
Designs the blooming wonders of the next.
Cowper, Task, b. vi.

But now the sounds of population fail,
No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale,
No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread,
But all the bloomy flush of life is fled.

Goldsmith. Deserted Village.
Applied-
Dut. Blaeren; Ger.

BLORE. See BLARE. Blarren, to roar, to bellow. To a roaring wind; a gale. Heere fiue at once round set with surging waters, Stick fast in quicksands, sinking more and more, There fiue againe the furious billow batters, Being hurried head-long with the south-west blore, In thousand pieces gainst great Albion's shore. Mirrour for Magistrates, p. 838.

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-But when they joynd the dreadfull clamor rose

To such a height, as not the sea, when up, the north-spirit blows

Her raging bellows; bellows so, against the beaten shore Nor such a rustling keeps a fire, driven with violent blore. Through woods that grow against a hill.

Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xiv. He found him sitting in his cottage dore; Where he had rais'd to euery ayry biore, A front of great height.-Id. Homer. Odysses, b. xiv. BLO'SSOM, v. See BLOOM. To bloom BLOSSOM, n. or blossom is to put forth, to BLO'SSOMED. throw forth the flowers; to plexion, the sweetness, the freshness of flowers BLO'SOMY. have the hue, the comjust thrown forth.

Tho I be hoor, I fare as doth a tre,
That blosmeth er the fruit ywoxen be;
The blosmy tre n'is neither drie nor ded:
I feel me no wher hoor but on my hed.

Chaucer. The Merchantes Tale, v. 9336.
-Some songen cleare
Laies of loue, that ioy it was to here
In worshipping and praising of her make
And for the newe blisfull somers sake
Upon the braunches full of blosmes soft.

Id. The Leg. of Good Women. Prol. Alone I went in my playing The small foules song herkening That pained hem full many a paire

To sing on bowes blossomed faire.-Id. Rom. of the Rose.

That a rod cut from the tree, should blossome, it was strange; but that in one night it should beare buds, blossoms, fruit, and that both ripe and hard, it is highly miraculous. Bp. Hall. Cont. Aaron's Censer and Rod. You naked trees, whose shadie leaues are lost, Wherein the birds were wont to build their bowre, And now are cloath'd with mosse and hoarie frost, Instead of blossoms, wherewith your buds did flowre. I see your teares.-Spenser. Shepherd's Calend. Janvarie.

The briefe was writte and blotted all with gore,
And thus it sayde: Behold how stedfast loue,
Hath made me hardy (thankes haue he therefore)
To write these wordes thy doubtes for to remoue
With mine owne blood.-Gascoigne. Dan Bartholomew.
Fie faythlesse woman ie,

wilt thou condemne kinde Bicause of just report of yll,

and blot of wauering minde.-Turberville. To his Friend. The which defacyng & blottyng of the beutye of that countrey, sometyme called the queene of ye earth and floure of the worlde, chaunced not of her awne self or her awne cause or desert, but the Italians her awne suckyng children opened the gappe and made the waye of her destruccion. Hall. Hen. VII. an. 7. But soon forgetting what she went about, Poor queen, she fell to scribling to her lover: Here she put in, and there she blotted out, Her passion did so violently move her. Drayton. The Baron's Wars, b. vi. Thus having by the worthy manner of his death (being much more honourable by it, then blameable for any other of his actions) fully blotted out, whatever stain, his fault might seem to bring upon him.

Sir F. Drake. The World Encompassed, p. 33. The moon, in all her brother's beams array'd Was blotted by the earth's approaching shade. Rowe. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. i. Sunk in the quenching gloom, Magnificent and vast, are heaven and earth. Order confounded lies; all beauty void; Distinction lost; and gay variety One universal blot.

Thomson. Winter.
Nor shall the muse, (should fate ordain her rhymes,
Fond, pleasing thought! to live in after-times)
With such a trifier's name her pages blot.

Churchill. The Rosciad.

What shulde I tellen of the realtee

Of this mariage, or which cours goth beforn,
Who bloweth in a tromp or in an horn?

Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5123.
Som sayd it was long on the fire-making;
Som sayd nay, it was long on the blowing.

Id. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,390. The fourth sewende after this Arcennium by name is hote, With blowyng and with fires hot.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv. Doth not this preaty pageant of purgatory signifie and prognosticate what tragedie they will play hereafter, when

the word of God shall blow and scatter from the face of the earth the darke clouds and mists of mens inuentions. Frith. Workes, p. 61.

By meanes where of when men make anye shoutinge or hallowinge, or when anye trompet is blowen, the sound beateth and reboundeth in suche wise vppon the stones from one to another, that the echo is heard double and treble, and the noyse resoundeth farre louder and greater then it went forth.-Goldyng. Justine, p. 110.

The pope which in sinnyng agaynst God and to quench the truth of his holy spirite, is euer chief captaine and trompet blower, to set other a worke, and seketh only his own fredome, libertie, priuiledge, wealth, prosperitie, pleasure, pastime, honour, and glory.-Tyndal. Works, p. 25.

And euery nyght the Scottis made great fyres, and great brute with showttyng and blowyng of hornes.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 18.

But prayer against his absolute decree
No more avails then breath against the wind,
Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xi.
Or if he might thence raise
At least distemper'd, discontented thoughts,
Vain hopes, vaine aimes, inordinate desires,
Blown up with high conceits engendring pride.
Id. Ib. b. iv.

Boy, blow the pipe until the bubble rise,
Then cast it off to float upon the skies;
Still swell its sides with breath-O beauteous frame !

It grows, it shines: be now the world thy name!

Parnell. The Gift of Poetry.

If I had found, on blowing up my fire this morning, that the flame was cold, and converted water into ice, I should have been much more astonished, than if I had detected a man reputed honest in the commission of an act of theft. Beattie. Essays, pt. ii. c. 2. BLOW, v. "A. S. Blowan, to blow, to BLOW, n. bloome, blossom, or bear flow. BLOWTH, N. ers: to bud, to burgeon, to BLO'WERS. spring, to flourish," (Somner.) In Dut. Bloeyen; Ger. Bluen. See BLOOM and BLOSSOM, and also BLADE.

And bygynth to blowe, & suththe to bere frut.
R. Gloucester, p. 352.
This is a propre plante quath ich and pryveliche hit
bleweth

And bryngeth forth fayre frut.-Piers Plouhman, p. 309.
Love is a gentle spirit
The wind that blows the April flowers not softer.
Beaum. & Fletch. The Lover's Progress, Act ii. sc. 1.
Iris there with humid bow
Waters the odorous banks, that blow
Flowers of more mingled hue
Than her purple scarf can shew.
As killing as the canker to the rose,-
Or frost to flow'rs, that their gay wardrobe wear,
When first the white thorn blows. Id. Lycidas.

Milton. Comus.