My love for to win All game and glee, All mirth and melody, All revel and riot, And of boast will I never Blin.
"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I."
R. Dodsley
But since it will no better be, My teares shall neuer Blin: To moist the earth in such degree, That I may drowne therein: That by my death all men may say, Lo weemen are as true as they.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham
Poor "Aunt Blin" overheard one man ask his wife in her dressing-room before dinner, "Why, if she must have a stitching-woman in the house, she couldn't find a more comfortable one to look at; somebody a little bright and cheerful to bring to the table, instead of that old callariper?"
"The Other Girls"
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney