King Lot of Lothan and Orkney wedded Margawse; Nentres, of the land of Carlot, wedded Elain; and that Morgan le Fay was [Arthurs] third sister.—­Pt. i. 2, 35, 36.

BEL’LIN, the ram, in the beast-epic of Reynard the Fox.  The word means “gentleness” (1498).

BELLINGHAM, a man about town.—­D.  Boucicault, After Dark.

BEL’LISANT, sister of king Pepin of France, and wife of Alexander emperor of Constantinople.  Being accused of infidelity, the emperor banished her, and she took refuge in a vast forest, where she became the mother of Valentine and Orson.—­Valentine and Orson.

BELLMONT (Sir William), father of George Bellmont; tyrannical, positive, and headstrong.  He imagines it is the duty of a son to submit to his father’s will, even in the matter of matrimony.

George Bellmont, son of sir William, in love with Clarissa, his friend Beverley’s sister; but his father demands of him to marry Belinda Blandford, the troth-plight wife of Beverley.  Ultimately all comes right.—­A.  Murphy, All in the Wrong (1761).

BELLO’NA’S HANDMAIDS, Blood, Fire, and Famine.

The goddesse of warre, called Bellona, had these thre handmaids ever attendynge on her:  BLOOD, FIRE, and FAMINE, which thre damosels be of that force and strength that every one of them alone is able and sufficient to torment and afflict a proud prince; and they all joyned together are of puissance to destroy the most populous country and most richest region of the world.—­Hall, Chronicle (1530).

BELLUM (Master), war.

  A difference [is] ’twixt broyles and bloudie warres,—­
  Yet have I shot at Maister Bellum’s butte,
  And thrown his ball, although I toucht no tutte [benefit].

G. Gascoigne, The Fruites of Warre, 94 (died 1577).

BELMONT (Sir Robert), a proud, testy, mercenary country gentleman; friend of his neighbor, sir Charles Raymond.

Charles Belmont, son of sir Robert, a young rake.  He rescued Fidelia, at the age of twelve, from the hands of Villard, a villain who wanted to abuse her, and taking her to his own home, fell in love with her, and in due time married her.  She turns out to be the daughter of sir Charles Raymond.

Rosetta Belmont, daughter of sir Robert, high-spirited, witty, and affectionate.  She is in love with colonel Raymond, whom she delights in tormenting.—­Ed. Moore, The Foundling (1748).

Belmont (Andrew), the elder of two brothers, who married Violetta (an English lady born in Lisbon), and deserted her.  He then promised marriage to Lucy Waters, the daughter of one of his tenants, but had no intention of making her his wife.  At the same time he engaged himself to Sophia, the daughter of sir Benjamin Dove.  The day of the wedding arrived, and it was then discovered that he was married already, and that Violetta his wife was actually present.