Empson

The favourite flageolet-player of Charles II., introduced into Scott’s Peveril of the Peak.

“Julian could only bow obedience, and follow Empson, who was the same person that played so rarely on the flageolet.”—Chap. xxx.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.