I'd add the genealogical consideration that of course the blood of
bluebloods is not common blood, because it is not that of commoners.
Belphoebe is a type for a dynast whose blood was (it would be alleged)
uncommonly pure, since it constituted her claim on the throne. (Her father
feared the impurity of the union that had issued in her elder half-sister
Mary, and promised him that he would not have sons.) (The Virgin Mary's
blood was pure in part because of her bloodlines [understood as
Judaic-Levitical, and messianic-Davidic].)
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James Nohrnberg
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