Brewer's: 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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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