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* BOLD STROKE FOB A HUSBAND. 247 BOLEYN. Olivia wins Julio by steadily refusing all lovers until he becomes conscious of her attractions. In the other, a married woman disguises herself as a boy, Florin, to recover from her liusband's mistress the fortune he has given awaj-. BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE, A. The title of a comedy by ilrs. .Susannah Centlivre (1718). It deals with the diplomacy with which Colonel Feijinwell wins the orphan heiress, Anne Lovely, and her dowry of £3000. He accomplishes his purpose by flattering his mistress's impossi- ble guardians, a beau, a dilettante, a broker, and a Quaker. BOLE (Gk. pQXos, bolos, lump of earth, clod, nugget). A hydrous aluminium silicate that is found massive, and constitutes a variety of hal- loysite. It is a claylike body, containing more or less iron oxide, which gives it a yellowish to red-brown or dark color. It has a conchoidal fracture, and when thrown into water falls to pieces. It is unctuous to the touch, and some varieties adhere to the tongue, it is found in Armenia. Italy, France. Germany, Ireland. Scot- land, and South America. Bole is used as food by the natives of certain parts of South America, and by the Japanese it is favorably regarded as a means for producing leanness. Ar-meiiiait bole is of a bright red color, due to the oxide of irtm that it contains, and has been used as a denti- frice. It has also been prescribed as a tonic and as an astringent medicine, finding in recent jears its most important use in veterinary prac- tice. Lemnian hole is of similar character, and is obtained from the island of Lemnos. When calcined, washed, and ground it is applied as a pigment, and is known variously as Blois hole, which is yellow in color: Bohemian hole, which is yellowish-red: French hole, which is pale-red; and l^ilisian bole, which is pale-yellow. BOLERO, bo-la'ro (Sp.). A Spanish national dance, mostly in the time of a minuet, with a .sharp, marked, and peculiar rhythm. It is ac- companied with the castanets and the cithern, and frequently with the voice; and the dancer in the movements seeks to represent the diflerent degrees of feeling from coyness to the highest ecstasies of love. BOLETUS (Lat. boletus, from Gk. ^uX/tijs, holitfs, a kind of fungus). A genus of fungi of the order Hymenomycetes, family Po/i//)orace(B. The older botanists included it in the numerous species now forming tlu; genus Polyporus (see Aii.i)oi:; Drv-Rot) and other genera: but even as now restricted, it is a very e.Ktensive genus. Many of the species resemble the common mush- room and other species of Agaricus in form : but instead of gills, the under side of the cap (pileus) is occupied by a layer quite distinct from it in substance, and pii ruil by pores so as to be com- posed of a multitude of .small tubes on the inside of which the spore-cases or seed-vessels are pro- duced. Some of the species are edible. Boletus edulis is much used in France; also in Germany, Hungary, Russia, etc. It is the eeps ordinaire of the French markets. It grows on the ground in woods, in places covered with moss, heath, or <;ia>s. In moist, warm summers, it sometimes ■appears in immense quantities, attaining a size of six inches or more across. The tubes are re- 5noved along with the skin and stem, and only the flesh of the cap is eaten, which is firm, white, delicate, of agreeable smell, and is prepared like the common mushroom. For illustrations, see Colored Plate under Fungi, Edible. BOLEYN, bi.il'cn, Anne (150I?-36). Queen of England as second wife of Henry VIII. She was rhe mother of Queen Elizabeth. The date of her birth is given as 1501 or 1.^07, the former being the more probable. The family name is frequently found in contemporary writings as Bullen, Bouleyn, Boulhm, or Boulain. She was the daughter of Sir Thomas BoleTi, afterwards Earl of Wiltsliire and Urmond. In her twelfth year Anne went to France, where her elder sis- ter, Mary, had previously accompanied JIary' Tudor, the affianced bride of Louis XII. of France, and sister of Henry VIII. She remained at the French Court three years, and soon after her return to England was wooed by Lord Henry Percy, the heir to the earldom of Xorthumber- land, and bj- King Henry himself, who, in April, 1522, began to shower wealth and honors on her father, and before this had dishonored her sister Mary. Henry's 'religious scruples' regarding the lawfulness of his marriage with Catharine became too urgent for the slow de- cision of the Court of Rome, but not till the King's divorce was set afoot (in May, 1527) did Anne favor his addresses. However, long before Cranmer pronounced the divorce (May 23, 1533), she was Henry's mistress, and in the preceding January they had been secretly married. She was crowned with great splendor in Westminster Hall on 'hitsunday : but within three months Henry bade her '"shut her eyes to his unfaitliftil- ness, as her betters had done, for he could abase yet more than he had raised her." His cooling passion was not revived by the birth (Sep- tember, 1.533) of the Princess — afterwards Queen — Elizabeth. The new Queen, naturally light and gay of heart, and educated at the French Court, where these qualities were likely to be developed to the utmost, conducted herself to- ward the courtiers with an easy familiarity not customary in England for one in her position. Concerning the first two years of her married life we have little infonnation. It is said that she was favorable to the Reformation, and pro- moted a translation of the Bible. In January, 1530, the Queen gave premature birth to a son. The mishap is said to have been caused by learn- ing of tlie King's newly developed passion for Jane Seymour, her successor. The King became more and more estranged, and her fieedom of manners had given but too good grounds for her enemies to speak evil of her. On May 1 the annual tournament was held at Orecnwicli. in the presence of the King and Queen. The tilting had commenced, the challengers being Viscount Roch- ford, brother to the Queen, and Sir Heniy Xnrris, one of the gentlemen of the King's Privy Cham- ber. Suddenly the King rose, his outward bear- ing manifesting inward disturbance, left the tour- ney, and with a small party rode up to J^ondon, leaving the Queen at (ireenwich. The popular account is that the King had seen her drop a handkerchief into the lists in order that one of her presumed lovers might wipe his face; but the necessity for any such romantic and sudden pretense of jealousy is annulled by the fact that in the previous week a commission composed of members of the Privy Council had been secret- ly engaged in examining charges of adultery against Anne; indeed, two of her alleged ac- complices. Sir William Brereton, a gentleman