l help thee."
Being brought before Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, the lord protector,
he was asked how he became lame; and Simpcox replied he fell from a tree
which he had climbed to gather plums for his wife. The duke then asked
if his sight had been restored? "Yes," said the man; and, being shown
divers colors, could readily distinguish between red, blue, brown, and
so on. The duke told the rascal that a _blind_ man does not climb trees
to gather their fruits; and one born blind might, if his sight were
restored, know that one color differed from another, but could not
possibly know which was which. He then placed a stool before him and
ordered the constables to whip him till he jumped over it; whereupon the
lame man jumped over it, and ran off as fast as his legs could carry
him. Sir Thomas More tells this story, and Shakespeare introduces it in
2 _Henry VI_. act ii. sc. 1 (1591).

=Simple=, the servant of Slender (cousin of Justice
Shallow).--Shakespeare, _The Merry Wives of Windsor_ (1596).

_Simple_ (_The_), Charles III. of France (879, 893-929).

_Simple_ (_Peter_), the hero and title of a novel by Captain Marryat
(1833).

=Simple Simon=, a man more sinned against than sinning, whose misfortunes
arose from his wife Margery's cruelty, which began the very morning of
their marriage.

We do not know whether it is necessary to seek for a Teutonic or
Northern original for this once popular book.--_Quarterly Review._

=Simpson= (_Tam_), the drunken barber.--Sir W. Scott, _St. Ronan's Well_
(time, George III.).

=Simson= (_Jean_), an old woman at Middlemas village.--Sir W. Scott, _The
Surgeon's Daughter_ (time, George II.).

=Simurgh=, a fabulous Eastern bird, endowed with reason and knowing all
languages. It had seen the great cycle of 7000 years twelve times, and,
during that period, it declared it had seen the earth wholly without
inhabitant seven times.--W. Beckford, _Vathek_ (notes, 1784). This does
not agree with Southey's account. (See SIMORG.)

=Sin=, twin-keeper, with Death, of Hellgate. She sprang, full-grown, from
the head of Satan.

Woman to the waist, and fair,
But ending foul in many a scaly fold
Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed
With mortal sting.

Milton, _Paradise Lost_, ii. (1665).

=Sin'adone= (_The lady of_), metamorphosed by enchantment into a serpent.
Sir Lybius (one of Arthur's knights) slew the enchantress, and the
serpent, coiling ab