Puff.  Every word of it.—­Sheridan, The Critic,
  ii. 1 (1779).

The original “lord Burleigh” was Irish Moody (1728-1813).—­Cornhill Magazine (1867).

BURLESQUE POETRY (Father of), Hippo’nax of Ephesus (sixth century B.C.).

BURLONG, a giant whose legs sir Try’amour cut off.—­Romance of Sir Tryamour.

BURNBILL, Henry de Londres, archbishop of Dublin and lord justice of Ireland, in the reign of Henry III.  It is said that he fraudulently burnt all the “bills” or instruments by which the tenants of the archbishopric held their estates.

BURNS OF FRANCE (The), Jasmin, a barber of Gascony.  Louis Philippe presented to him a gold watch and chain, and the duke of Orleans an emerald ring.

BUR’RIS, an honest lord, favorite of the great-duke of
Muscovia.—­Beaumont and Fletcher, The Loyal Subject (1618).

BURROUGHS (George), a Salem citizen whose trial for witchcraft is recorded by Rev. Cotton Mather.  The counts are many, and in the opinion of the court are proven, George Burroughs being condemned to die.  In the story of his crimes set down by Dr. Mather, the climax would seem to be a paper handed by the accused to the jury, “wherein he goes to evince ’That there neither are, nor ever were, witches that, having made a compact with the devil, can send a devil to torment other people at a distance.’”

“When he came to die, he utterly denied the fact whereof he had been convicted.”—­Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World (1693).

BU’SIRANE (3 syl.), an enchanter who bound Am’oret by the waist to a brazen pillar, and, piercing her with a dart, wrote magic characters with the dropping blood, “all for to make her love him.”  When Brit’omart approached, the enchanter started up, and, running to Amoret, was about to plunge a knife into her heart; but Britomart intercepted the blow, overpowered the enchanter, compelled him to “reverse his charms,” and then bound him fast with his own chain.—­Spenser, Faery Queen, iii. 11, 12 (1590).

BUSI’RIS, king of Egypt, was told by a foreigner that the long drought of nine years would cease when the gods of the country were mollified by human sacrifice.  “So be it,” said the king, and ordered the man himself to be offered as the victim.—­Herod, ii. 59-61.

  ’Tis said that Egypt for nine years was dry;
  Nor Nile did floods nor heaven did rain supply.

  A foreigner at length informed the king
  That slaughtered guests would kindly moisture bring. 
  The king replied, “On thee the lot shall fall;
  Be thou, my guest, the sacrifice for all.”

Ovid, Art of Love, i.

Busi’ris, supposed by Milton to be the Pharaoh drowned in the Red Sea.

  Hath vexed the Red Sea coast, whose waves o’erthrew
  Busiris and his Memphian chivalry.