BELLA WILFER, a lovely, wilful, lively spoilt darling. She married John Rokesmith (i.e., John Harmon).--C. Dickens, _Our Mutual Friend_ (1864). BELLAMY, a steady young man, looking out for a wife "capable of friendship, love, and tenderness, with good sense enough to be easy, and good nature enough to like him." He found his beau-ideal in Jacintha, who had besides a fortune of £30,000.--Dr. Hoadly, _The Suspicious Husband_ (1761). BELLA'RIO, the assumed name of Euphrasia, when she put on boy's apparel that she might enter the service of prince Philaster, whom she greatly loved.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _Philaster, or Love Lies A-Bleeding_ (1622). BELLASTON (_Lady_), a profligate, from whom Tom Jones accepts support. Her conduct and conversation may be considered a fair photograph of the "beauties" of the court of George II.--Fielding, _History of Tom Jones, a Foundling_ (1750). The character of Jones, otherwise a model of generosity, openness, and manly spirit, mingled with thoughtless dissipation, is unnecessarily degraded by the nature of his intercourse with lady Bellaston.--_Encyc. Brit._ Art. "Fielding." BELLE CORDIERE (_La_), Louise Labé, who married Ennemond Perrin, a wealthy rope-maker (1526-1566). BELLE CORISANDE (_La_), Diane comtesse de Gruiche et de Grammont (1554-1620). BELLEFONTAINE _(Benedict)_, the wealthy farmer of Grande Pré [_Nova Scotia_] and father of Evangeline. When the inhabitants of his village were driven into exile, Benedict died of a broken heart as he was about to embark, and was buried on the sea-shore.--Longfellow, _Evangeline_ (1849). BEL'LENDEN (_Lady Margaret_), an old Tory lady, mistress of the Tower of Tillietudlem. _Old major Miles Bellenden_, brother of lady Margaret. _Miss Edith Bellenden_, granddaughter of lady Margaret, betrothed to lord Evendale, of the king's army, but in love with Morton (a leader of the covenanters and the hero of the novel). After the death of lord Evendale, who is shot by Balfour, Edith marries Morton, and this terminates the tale.--Sir W. Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, Charles II.). BELLERO'PHON was falsely accused by Antea, wife of Proetos, King of Argos, and the enraged husband sent him to Lycia, to King Iobates, the father of Antea, with sealed tablets, asking that the bearer might be put to death. Iobates sent the youth on dangerous errands, but he came off unharmed from all. Among other exploits he killed the Chimæra and slew the Amazons. Later, he tried to mount to Olympus on the winged horse Pegasus, but he fell and wandered about in melancholy madness on the Aleian field until he died. This peculiar form of madness is called _morbus Bellerophonteus_. Homer tells the story of Bellerophon in the Iliad, Book VI. Milton alludes to him, _Paradise Lost_, VII. 15-20. Hawthorne has told the story of the Chimæra in _A Wonder Book._