"blest" meaning in English

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      "form": "more blest",
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          "text": "Since fate has let the heart go free / That wish’d so warmly to be bound / By the tie which love eternally / Hath fail’d to fasten round, / Leaving the breast in woful thrall / That else had the blestest been of all.",
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          "ref": "1884, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl., The Lyricks, part I (Sonnets, Canzons, Odes, and Sextines), London: Bernard Quaritch, […], page 262",
          "text": "Blest who, by worth empower’d, their glory views, / Blester the hand that could one tress obtain, / But blestest he who doth his Soul maintain / Only on glorious lights these locks diffuse.",
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          "text": "Nothing was thereby altered or improved in the desperate case of the brother-sister pair, but to the unblessedly blest maiden it seemed even so that by the mere sending of the squire a way out of their misery was already found; […]",
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          "text": "Since fate has let the heart go free / That wish’d so warmly to be bound / By the tie which love eternally / Hath fail’d to fasten round, / Leaving the breast in woful thrall / That else had the blestest been of all.",
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