Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling,
The darling of the crew ...
Bowyer (Master), usher of the black rod in the court of queen Elizabeth.—Sir W. Scott, Kenilworth (time, Elizabeth).
Bowzybe'us (4 syl.), the drunkard, rioted for his songs in Gray's pastorals, called The Shepherd's Week. He sang of "Nature's Laws," of "Fairs and Shows," "The Children in the Wood," "Chevy Chase," "Taffey Welsh," "Rosamond's Bower," "Lilly-bullero," etc. The 6th pastoral is in imitation of Virgil's 6th Ecl., and Bowzybëus is a vulgarized Silenus.
That Bowzybeus, who with jocund tongue,
Ballads, and roundelays, and catches sung.
Gay, Pastoral, vi. (1714).
Box and Cox, a dramatic romance, by J. M. Morton, the principal characters of which are Box and Cox.
Boy Bachelor (The), William Wotton, D.D., admitted at St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge, before he was ten, and to his degree of B.A. when he was twelve and a half (1666-1726).
Boy Bishop (The), St. Nicholas, the patron saint of boys (fourth century).