BAILIE (General), a parliamentary leader.—­Sir W. Scott, Legend of Montrose (time, Charles I.).

Bailie (Giles), a gipsy; father of Gabrael Faa (nephew to Meg Merrilies).—­Sir W. Scott, Guy Mannering (time, George II.).

BAILLY, (Henry or Harry), the host of the Tabard Inn, in Southwerk, London, where the nine and twenty companions of Chaucer put up before starting on their pilgrimage to Canterbury.

  A semely man our hoste was withal
  For to han been a marshal in an halle,
  A fairer burgeis is ther non in Chepe.

  Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Prologue.

BAILIFF’S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON (in Norfolk).  A squire’s son loved the bailiff’s daughter, but she gave him no encouragement, and his friends sent him to London “an apprentice for to binde.”  After the lapse of seven years, the bailiff’s daughter, “in ragged attire,” set out to walk to London, “her true love to inquire.”  The young man on horseback met her, but knew her not.  “One penny, one penny, kind sir!” she said.  “Where were you born?” asked the young man.  “At Islington,” she replied.  “Then prithee, sweetheart, do you know the bailiff’s daughter there?” “She’s dead, sir, long ago.”  On hearing this the young man declared he’d live an exile in some foreign land.  “Stay, oh stay, thou goodly youth,” the maiden cried, “she is not really dead, for I am she.”  “Then farewell grief and welcome joy, for I have found my true love, whom I feared I should never see again.”—­Percy, Relics of English Poetry, ii. 8.

BAILZOU (Annaple), the nurse of Effie Deans in her confinement.—­Sir W. Scott, Heart of Midlothian (time, George II.).

BAJARDO, Rinaldo’s steed.—­Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516).

BAJAZET, surnamed “The Thunderbolt” (ilderim), sultan of Turkey.  After subjugating Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, and Asia Minor, he laid siege to Constantinople, but was taken captive by Tamerlane emperor of Tartary.  He was fierce as a wolf, reckless, and indomitable.  Being asked by Tamerlane how he would have treated him had their lots been reversed, “Like a dog,” he cried.  “I would have made you my footstool when I mounted my saddle, and when your services were not needed would have chained you in a cage like a wild beast.”  Tamerlane replied, “Then to show you the difference of my spirit, I shall treat you as a king.”  So saying, he ordered his chains to be struck off, gave him one of the royal tents, and promised to restore him to his throne if he would lay aside his hostility.  Bajazet abused this noble generosity; plotted the assassination of Tamerlane; and bow-strung Moneses.  Finding clemency of no use, Tamerlane commanded him to be used “as a dog, and to be chained in a cage like a wild beast.”—­N.  Rowe, Tamerlane (a tragedy, 1702).

Bajazet, a black page at St. James’s Palace.—­Sir W. Scott, Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.).