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Bell, Bessy

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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he "twa bonnie lassies" of a Scotch ballad, daughters of two Perthshire gentlemen, who in 1666 built themselves a bower in a spot retired from a plague then raging; supplied with food by a lad in love with both of them, who caught the plague and gave it to them, of which they all sickened and died.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Bell, Bessy'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/bell-bessy.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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