Chapter XX: Part 20

=Liris=, a proud but lovely daughter of the race of man, beloved by Rubi, first of the angel host. Her passion was the love of knowledge, and she was captivated by all her angel lover told her of heaven and the works of God. At last she requested Rubi to appear before her in all his glory, and, as she fell into his embrace, was burnt to ashes by the rays which issued from him.—T. Moore, _Loves of the Angels_, ii. (1822.)

=Lisa=, an innkeeper’s daughter, who wishes to marry Elvi´no, a wealthy farmer; but Elvino is in love with Ami´na. Suspicious circumstances make Elvino renounce his true love and promise marriage to Lisa; but the suspicion is shown to be causeless, and Lisa is discovered to be the paramour of another. So Elvino returns to his first love, and Lisa is left to Alessio, with whom she had been living previously.—Bellini’s opera, _La Sonnambula_ (1831).

=Lisette.= _Les Infidélités de Lisette_ and _Les Gueux_ are the two songs which, in 1813, gained for Béranger admission to the “Caveau,” a club of Paris, established in 1729 and broken up in 1749, but reestablished in 1806 and finally closed in 1817.

_Les Infidélités_ supposes that Béranger loved Lisette, who bestowed her favors on sundry admirers; and Béranger, at each new proof of infidelity, “drowned his sorrow in the bowl.”

Lizette, ma Lizette
Tu m’as trompé toujours;
Mais vive la grisette!
Je veux, Lizette.
Boire à nos amours.
_Les Infidélités de Lisette._

=Lismaha´go= (_Captain_), a superannuated officer on half-pay, who marries Miss Tabitha Bramble for the sake of her £4000. He is a hard-featured, forbidding Scotchman, singular in dress, eccentric in manners, self-conceited, pedantic, disputatious, and rude. Though most tenacious in argument, he can yield to Miss Tabitha, whom he wishes to conciliate. Lismahago reminds one of Don Quixote, but is sufficiently unlike to be original.—T. Smollett, _The Expedition of Humphry Clinker_ (1771).

=Lissardo=, valet to Don Felix. He is a conceited high-life-below-stairs fop, who makes love to Inis and Flora.—Mrs. Centlivre, _The Wonder_ (1713).

Lee Lewes [1740-1803] played “Lissardo” in the style of his great master [_Woodward_], and most divertingly.—Boaden, _Life of Mrs. Siddons_.

=Lis´uarte= (_The Exploits and Adventures of_), part of the series of _Le Roman des Romans_, or that pertaining to “Am´adis of Gaul.” This part was added by Juan Diaz.

=Litchfield= (_David_). Deaf, rich man, married to a wife young enough to be his child. He thinks and feels much, but says little. His dry humor, harmless cynicism, and benevolent schemes for the needy, make him a man of mark. His mother-in-law, a manœuverer of the first water, bends over his dying bed with strained solicitude, mentally reckoning up the amount he will leave her daughter.

“He looked up in her face; he was almost smiling.

‘_A—watched—pot—never—boils!_’ he said, slowly and with difficulty, and then once more closed his eyes.”

Ellen Olney Kirke, _A Daughter of Eve_ (1889).

=Literature= (_Father of Modern French_), Claude de Seyssel (1450-1520).

_Literature_ (_Father of German_), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781).

=Littimer=, the painfully irreproachable valet of Steerforth; in whose presence David Copperfield feels always most uncomfortably small. Though as a valet he is propriety in Sunday best, he is nevertheless cunning and deceitful. Steerforth, tired of “Little Em’ly,” wishes to marry her to Littimer; but from this lot she is rescued, and migrates to Australia.—C. Dickens, _David Copperfield_ (1849).

=Little= (_Thomas_). Thomas Moore published, in 1808, a volume of amatory poems under this _nom de plume_. The preface is signed J.H.H.H.

’Tis Little—young Catullus of his day,
As sweet but as immoral as his lay.
Byron, _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_ (1809).

=Little Corporal= (_The_). General Bonaparte was so called after the battle of Lodi, in 1796, from his youthful age and low stature.

=Little Dorrit=, the heroine and title of a novel by C. Dickens (1857). Little Dorrit was born and brought up in the Marshalsea prison, Bermondsey, where her father was confined for debt; and when about 14 years of age she used to do needle work, to earn a subsistence for herself and her father. The child had a pale, transparent face; quick in expression, though not beautiful in feature. Her eyes were a soft hazel, and her figure slight. The little dove of the prison was idolized by the prisoners, and when she walked out, every man in Bermondsey who passed her, touched or took off his hat out of respect to her good works and active benevolence. Her father, coming into a property, was set free at length, and little Dorrit married Arthur Clennam, the marriage service being celebrated in the Marshalsea, by the prison chaplain.

=Little-Endians and Big-Endians=, two religious factions, which waged incessant war with each other on the right interpretation of the fifty-fourth chapter of the _Blun´decral_; “All true believers break their eggs at the convenient end.” The god-father of Calin Deffar Plune, the reigning emperor of Lilliput, happened to cut his finger while breaking his egg at the _big_ end, and therefore commanded all faithful Lilliputians to break their eggs in future at the _small_ end. The Blefuscudians called this decree rank heresy, and determined to exterminate the believers of such an abominable practice from the face of the earth. Hundreds of treatises were published on both sides, but each empire put all those books opposed to its own views into the _Index Expurgatorius_, and not a few of the more zealous sort died as martyrs for daring to follow their private judgement in the matter.—Swift, _Gulliver’s Travels_ (“Voyage to Lilliput,” 1726).

=Little French Lawyer= (_The_), a comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher (1647). The person so called is La Writ, a wrangling French advocate.

=Little Gentleman in Velvet= (_To the_), a favorite Jacobite toast in the reign of Queen Anne. The reference is to the mole that raised the hill against which the horse of William III. stumbled while riding in the park of Hampton Court. By this accident the king broke his collar-bone, a severe illness ensued, and he died early in 1702.

=Little= (_Henry_), young inventor and mechanic, persecuted by the Trades Unions, driven to set up a forge in a disused church, and resort to other means to conceal the fact that he is doing honest work in an honest man’s way, carrying on a love affair at the same time. He is nearly murdered by the emissaries of the “Union,” spirited away, and comes to light again just in time to vindicate his loyalty to his _fianceé_, who has been duped into a form of marriage with another man.—Charles Reade, _Put Yourself in His Place_.

=Little John=, (whose surname was _Nailor_), the _fidus Achatês_ of Robin Hood. He could shoot an arrow a measured mile and somewhat more. So could Robin Hood; but no other man ever lived who could perform the same feat. In one of the Robin Hood ballads we are told that the name of this free-shooter was John Little, and that Wiliam Stutely, in merry mood, reversed the names.

“O, here is my hand,” the stranger replyed;
“I’ll serve you with all my whole heart.
My name is John Little, a man of good mettle;
Ne’er doubt me, for I play my part.”
He was, I must tell you, full seven foot high,
And maybe an ell in the waste....
Brave Stutely said then....
“This infant was called John Little,” quoth he;
“Which name shall be changêd anon;
The words we’ll transpose, so wherever he goes
His name shall be called Little John.”
Ritson, _Robin Hood Ballads_, ii. 21 (before 1689).

_Little John_ (_Hugh_). John Hugh Lockhart, grandson of Sir W. Scott, is so called by Sir Walter in his _Tales of a Grandfather_, written for his grandson.

=Little Marlborough=, Count von Schwerin, a Prussian field-marshal and a companion of the duke of Marlborough (1684-1757).

=Little Nell=, a child distinguished for her purity of character, though living in the midst of selfishness, impurity, and crime. She was brought up by her grandfather, who was in his dotage, and having lost his property, tried to eke out a narrow living by selling lumber or curiosities. At length, through terror of Quilp, the old man and his grandchild stole away, and led a vagrant life, the one idea of both being to get as far as possible from the reach of Quilp. They finally settled down in a cottage overlooking a country churchyard, where Nell died.—C. Dickens, _The Old Curiosity Shop_ (1840).

=Little Queen=, Isabella of Valois, who was married at the age of eight years to Richard II. of England, and was a widow at 13 years of age (1387-1410).

=Little Red Ridinghood.= “We must call you ‘Little Red Ridinghood!’” said her mother, as she tied the pretty red hood under her little girl’s chin. “Now take this cake and this bottle of wine to your grandmother, and if you meet people on the way, wish them ‘good morning.’”

As Little Red Ridinghood went through the wood, she met Mr. Wolf, and wished him “good morning!” “Good morning, little maid,” said he; “and where are you going?” “I am going to my grandmother’s,” she said, “to take her this cake and this bottle of wine.” “You are a nice little girl,” said Mr. Wolf, “and I wish you good day!”

As Little Red Ridinghood went along, she said to herself: “I am sure it would please my grandmother if I were to bring her a bunch of flowers!” And in an open space, where the sun was shining, she found some nodding columbines and some blue violets, and made a pretty nosegay.

Mr. Wolf waited till he saw Little Red Ridinghood busy gathering flowers, and then he ran on ahead till he came to her grandmother’s house. He tapped on the door, and grandmother said, “Who is there?” Then Mr. Wolf made his voice as small as he could, and said: “I am Little Red Ridinghood, and I have brought you a cake, and a bottle of wine!”

“Welcome, dear child!” said the grandmother. “Pull the bobbin, and the latch will fly up.”

Then Mr. Wolf pulled the bobbin, and up flew the latch, and in he went; and there lay the grandmother in the bed, for she was too old and feeble to get up. Then Mr. Wolf ran to the bed, and seized the poor old grandmother, and ate her up as quick as a wink. And he put her night-cap on his head, and jumped into the bed, and pulled the clothes about his ears.

Very soon Little Red Ridinghood came to the door and tapped, and Mr. Wolf made his voice as small as he could, and said, “Who is there!” And Little Red Ridinghood said: “It is I, dear grandmother, and I have brought you a cake and a bottle of wine!”

“Welcome, dear child! ” squeaked Mr. Wolf. “Pull the bobbin, and the latch will fly up!”

Then Little Red Ridinghood pulled the bobbin and up flew the latch, and in she went, and thought she saw her grandmother lying on the bed. “Come here, my dear,” said Mr. Wolf, “and sit by me, for I am old and feeble, and cannot get up.” Then Little Red Ridinghood looked at her grandmother, and said: “Why, grandmother, what big ears you have!” “The better to hear you with,” said Mr. Wolf. “Why, grandmother, what big eyes you have!” “The better to see you with, my dear!” “Why, grandmother, what a big mouth you have!” “The better to eat you with, my dear!” said Mr. Wolf, and with that he seized poor Little Red Ridinghood, and ate her up in the twinkling of an eye.

=Littlejohn= (_Bailie_), a magistrate at Fairport.—Sir W. Scott, _The Antiquary_ (time, George III.).

=Little Sister=, Caroline Gann, deserted wife of Brand Firmin.—W.M. Thackeray, _Adventures of Philip_ (1860).

=Little Sunshine=, pet name bestowed upon Lily Davis, heroine of Bartley Campbell’s play of the same name.

=Livy= (_The Russian_), Nicholas Michaelovitch Karamzin (1765-1826).

=Livy of France=, Juan de Mariana (1537-1624).

=Livy of Portugal=, Joào de Barros (1496-1570).

=Liz=, “slender slip of a creature” in the Lancashire coal region, ignorant, emotional, weak, easily led, ready to err, unable to bear the consequences of error, not strong enough to be resolutely wicked, nor strong enough to be anything in particular, but that which her surroundings make her. Naturally she sins, and is sorry. Joan Lowrie’s strong hands lay hold of and hold her up. She relapses into vice, and returns to die at Joan’s door.—Francis Hodgson Burnett, _That Lass o’ Lowrie’s_ (1877).

=Lizzie Hexam=, daughter of a disreputable waterman, Gaffer Hexam. Devoted sister, and pure, lovely woman, who supports and educates herself, and finally marries Eugene Wrayburn.—Charles Dickens, _Our Mutual Friend_ (1861).

=Lla´ian=, the unwed mother of Prince Hoel. His father was Prince Hoel, the illegitimate son of King Owen, of North Wales. Hoel, the father, was slain in battle by his half-brother, David, successor to the throne; and Llaian, with her young son, also called Hoel, accompanied Prince Madoc to America.—Southey, _Madoc_ (1805).

=Llewel´lyn=, son of Yorwerth, and grandson of Owen, king of North Wales. Yorwerth was the eldest son, but was set aside because he had a blemish in the face, and his half-brother, David, was king. David began his reign by killing or banishing all the family of his father who might disturb his succession. Amongst those he killed was Yorwerth, in consequence of which Llewellyn resolved to avenge his father’s death; and his hatred against his uncle was unbounded.—Southey, _Madoc_ (1805).

=Lloyd= with an “L.”

One morning a Welsh coach-maker came with his bill to my lord [_The earl of Brentford_]. “You called, I think, Mr. Lloyd?” “At your lordship’s service, my lord.” “What! Lloyd with an ‘L?’” It was with an “L.” “In your part of the world I have heard that Lloyd and Flloyd are synonymous; is it so?” inquired his lordship. “Very often, indeed, my lord,” was the reply. “You say that you spell your name with an ‘L?’” “Always, my lord.” “That, Mr. Lloyd, is a little unlucky; for I am paying my debts alphabetically, and in four or five years you might have come in with the ‘F’s;’ but I am afraid I can give you no hopes for your ‘L.’ Good morning.”—S. Foote, _The Lame Lover_.

=L.N.R.=, _nom de plume_ of Mrs. Ranyard, authoress of _The Book and its Story_, _The Missing Link_, etc. Died 1879.

=Loathly Lady= (_The_), a hideous creature, whom Sir Gaw´ain marries, and who immediately becomes a beautiful woman.—_The Marriage of Sir Gawain_ (a ballad).

The walls ... were clothed with grim old tapestry, representing the memorable story of Sir Gawain’s wedding ... with the Loathly Lady.—Sir W. Scott.

=Loba´ba=, one of the sorcerers in the caverns of Dom-Daniel, “under the roots of the ocean.” These spirits were destined to be destroyed by one of the race of Hodeirah, and therefore, they persecuted the whole of that race even to death. Thala´ba, however, escaped their malice, and became their destroyer. Okba tried to kill him, but failed. Abdaldar was next sent against him, and would have struck the lad in prayer, but was himself killed by a simoom. Lobāba was the third envoy sent to compass his death. He assumed the guise of an old merchant, and beguiled the young man into the wilderness, where he roused up a furious whirlwind; but Thalaba was saved, and Lobaba himself fell a victim to the storm which he had raised.—Southey, _Thalaba, the Destroyer_ (1797).

=Lochiel´= (_2 syl._). Sir Evan Cameron, lord of Lochiel, surnamed “The Black” and “The Ulysses of the Highlands,” died 1719. His son, called “The Gentle Lochiel,” is the one referred to by Thomas Campbell in _Lochiel’s Warning_. He fought in the battle of Cullo´den for Prince Charles, the Young Pretender (1746).

Lochiel, Lochiel, beware of the day
When the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array!
For a field of the dead rushes red on my sight,
And the clans of Cullo´den are scattered in fight.
Campbell, _Lochiel’s Warning_,

And Cameron, in the shock of steel,
Die like the offspring of Lochiel.
Sir W. Scott, _Field of Waterloo_.

=Lochinvar´=, a young Highlander, in love with a lady at Netherby Hall (condemned to marry a “laggard in love and a dastard in war”). Her young chevalier induced the too-willing lassie to be his partner in a dance; and while the guests were intent on their amusements, swung her into his saddle and made off with her before the bridegroom could recover from his amazement.—Sir W. Scott, _Marmion_ (1808).

=Lochleven= (_The Lady of_), mother of the Regent Murray.—Sir W. Scott, _The Abbot_ (time, Elizabeth).

=Lockit=, the jailer in Gay’s _Beggar’s Opera_. He was an inhuman brute, who refused to allow Captain Macheath any more candles in his cell, and threatened to clap on extra fetters, unless he supplied him with more “garnish” (_jail fees_). Lockit loaded his prisoners with fetters in inverse proportion to the fees which they paid, ranging “from one guinea to ten.” (See LUCY.)—J. Gay, _The Beggar’s Opera_ (1727).

The quarrel between Peachum and Lockit was an allusion to a personal collision between Walpole and his colleague, Lord Townsend.—R. Chambers, _English Literature_, i. 571.

_Locksley_, _alias_ “Robin Hood,” an archer at the tournament (ch. xiii.). Said to have been the name of the village where the outlaw was born.—Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.).

=Locksley Hall=, a poem by Tennyson, in which the hero, the Lord of Locksley Hall, having been jilted by his Cousin Amy for a rich boor, pours forth his feelings in a flood of vehement scorn and indignation. In his old age Tennyson took up the theme again, and wrote _Locksley Hall Sixty Years After_.

=Locrine= (2 _syl._), father of Sabri´na, and eldest son of the mythical Brutus, king of ancient Britain. On the death of his father, Locrine became king of Loe´gria (_England_).

=Locusta=, a by-word of infamy. She lived in the early part of the Roman Empire. Locusta poisoned Claudius and Britannicus, and attempted to destroy Nero, but, being found out, was put to death.

=Loda= or =Cruth-Loda=, a Scandinavian god, which dwelt “on the misty top of Uthorno ... the house of the spirits of men.” Fingal did not worship at the “stone of this power,” but looked on it as hostile to himself and friendly to his foes. Hence, when Loda appeared to him on one occasion, Fingal knew it was with no friendly intent, and with his sword he cleft the intrenched spirit in twain. Whereupon it uttered a terrible shriek, which made the island tremble; and, “rolling itself up, rose upon the wings of the wind,” and departed. (See MARS WOUNDED).—Ossian, _Carric-Thura_.

(In _Oina-Moral_, “Loda” seems to be a place:

They stretch their hands to the shells _in_ Loda).

=Lodbrog=, king of Denmark (eighth century), famous for his wars and victories. He was also an excellent scald or bard, like Ossian. Falling into the hands of his enemies, he was cast into jail and devoured by serpents.

=Lodois´ka= (4 _syl._), a beautiful Polish princess, in love with Count Floreski. She is the daughter of Prince Lupauski, who places her under the protection of a friend (Baron Lovinski) during a war between the Poles and Tartars. Here her lover finds her a prisoner at large; but the baron seeks to poison him. At this crisis, the Tartars arrive and invade the castle. The baron is killed, the lady released, and all ends happily.—J. P. Kembel, _Lodoiska_ (a melodrama).

=Lodo´na=, a nymph, fond of the chase. One day Pan saw her, and tried to catch her; but she fled, and implored Cynthia to save her. Her prayer was heard, and she was instantly converted into “a silver stream, which ever keeps its virgin coolness.” Lodona is an affluent of the Thames.—Pope, _Windsor Forest_ (1713).

=Lodovi´co=, kinsman to Brabantio, the father of Desdemona.—Shakespeare, _Othello_ (1611).

=Lodovico= and =Piso=, two cowardly gulls.—Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Captain_ (1613).

=Lodowick=, the name assumed by the duke of Vienna, when he retired for a while from State affairs, and dressed as a friar, to watch the carrying out of a law recently enforced against prostitution.—Shakespeare, _Measure for Measure_ (1603).

=Loe´gria= (4 _syl._), England, the kingdom of Logris or Locrine, eldest son of Brute, the mythical king of Britain.

Thus Cambria [_Wales_] to her right that would herself restore,
And rather than to lose Loëgria, looks for more.
M. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, iv. (1612).

Il est écrit qu’il est une heure
Où tout le royaume de Logres,
Qui jadis fut la terre ès ogres
Sera détruit par cette lance.
Chrétien de Troyes, _Parzival_ (1170).

=Lofty=, a detestable prig, always boasting of his intimacy with people of quality.—Goldsmith, _The Good-natured Man_ (1767).

_Lofty_ (_Sir Thomas_), a caricature of Lord Melcombe. Sir Thomas is a man utterly destitute of all capacity, yet sets himself up for a Mecænas, and is well sponged by needy scribblers, who ply him with fulsome dedications.—Samuel Foote, _The Patron_.

=Log= (_King_), a _roi fainéant_. The frogs prayed to Jove to send them a king, and the god threw a log into the pool, the splash of which terribly alarmed them for a time; but they soon learnt to despise a monarch who allowed them to jump upon its back, and never resented their familiarities. The croakers complained to Jove for sending them so worthless a king, and prayed him to send one more active and imperious; so he sent them a stork, which devoured them.—_Æsop’s Fables._

=Logistil´la=, a good fairy, sister of Alci´na, the sorceress. She taught Ruggie´ro (3 _syl._) to manage the hippogriff, and gave Astolpho a magic book and horn. Logistilla is human reason personified.—Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516).

=Logothete= (_The_), or chancellor of the Grecian empire.—Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of Paris_ (time, Rufus).

=Lohengrin=, “Knight of the Swan,” son of Parsival. He came to Brabante in a ship drawn by a swan, and having liberated the Duchess Elsa, who was a captive, he married her, but declined to reveal his name. Not long after his marriage he went against the Huns and Saracens, performed marvels of bravery, and returned to Germany covered with glory. Elsa, being laughed at by her friends for not knowing the name of her husband, resolved to ask him of his family; but no sooner had she done so than the white swan re-appeared and carried him away.—Wolfram von Eschenbach (a minnesinger, thirteenth century).

=L’Oiseleur= (“_the bird-catcher_”), the person who plays the magic flute.—Mozart, _Die Zauberflöte_ (1791).

=Loki=, the god of strife and spirit of all evil. His wife is Angerbode (4 _syl._), _i.e._ “messenger of wrath,” and his three sons are Fenris, Midgard, and Hela. Loki gave the blind god Höder an arrow of mistletoe, and told him to try it; so the blind Höder discharged the arrow and slew Balder (the Scandinavian Apollo). This calamity was so grievous to the gods, that they unanimously agreed to restore him to life again.—_Scandinavian Mythology._

=Lolah=, one of the three beauties of the harem, into which Don Juan in female disguise was admitted. She “was dusk as India and as warm.” The other two were Katin´ka and Dudù.—Byron, _Don Juan_, vi. 40, 41 (1824).

=Lol´lius=, an author often referred to by writers of the Middle Ages, but probably a “Mrs. Harris” of Kennotwhere.

Lollius, if a writer of that name existed at all, was a somewhat somewhere.—Coleridge.

=London Antiquary= (_A_). John Camden Hotten published his _Dictionary of Modern Slang, etc._, under this pseudonym.

=London Bridge is Built on Woolpacks.= In the reign of Henry II., Pious Peter, a chaplain of St. Mary Colechurch, in the Poultry, built a stone bridge in lieu of the wooden one which had been destroyed by fire. The king helped him by a _tax on wool_, and hence the saying referred to above.

=Long= (_Tom_), the hero of an old popular tale entitled _The Merry Conceits of Tom Long, the Carrier, etc._

=Long Peter=, Peter Aartsen, the Flemish painter. He was so called from his extraordinary height (1507-1573).

=Long-Sword= (_Richard_), son of the “fair Rosamond” and Henry II. His brother was Geoffrey, archbishop of York.

Long-sword, the brave son of beauteous Rosamond.
Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xviii. (1613).

_Long-Sword,_ William I., of Normandy, son of Rollo, assassinated by the count of Flanders (920-943).

=Long Tom Coffin=, a sailor of heroic character and most amiable disposition, introduced by Fenimore Cooper, in his novel called _The Pilot_. Fitzball has dramatized the story.

=Longaville= (3 _syl._), a young lord attending on Ferdinand, king of Navarre. He promises to spend three years in study with the king, during which time no woman is to approach the court; but no sooner has he signed the compact than he falls in love with Maria. When he proposes to her, she defers his suit for twelve months, and she promises to change her “black gown for a faithful friend” if he then remains of the same mind.

A man of sovereign parts he is esteemed;
Well fitted in the arts, glorious in arms;
Nothing becomes him ill, that he would well.
The only soil of his fair virtue’s gloss ...
Is a sharp wit matched with too blunt a will;
Whose edge hath power to cut, whose will still wills
It should none spare that come within his power.
Shakespeare, _Love’s Labor’s Lost_, act ii. sc. 1.

=Longchamp=, bishop of Ely, high justiciary of England during the absence of King Richard Cœur de Lion.—Sir W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.).

=Longevity=. The following have exceeded a hundred years:—

THOMAS CAM (207!!), according to the parish register of St. Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch, died January 22, 1588, aged 207 years. If so, he was born 1381, in 4th Richard II., and died 13th Elizabeth.

THOMAS PARR (152), born 1483, died 1635.

HENRY JENKINS (169), born 1591, died 1760.

CATHARINE, countess of DESMOND (140), fifteenth century.

HENRY HASTINGS (102), forester to Charles I. (1537-1639).

HENRY EVANS (129), a Welshman (1642-1771).

JANE SCRIMSHAW (127), lived in the reigns of eight sovereigns (1584-1711).

ALICE, of Philadelphia (116), born 1686, died 1802.

THOMAS LAUGHER, of Markley, Worcesshire (107), born 1700, died 1807. His mother died at the age of 108.

MARGARET PATTEN or Batten, of Glasgow (136). She was born in the reign of Elizabeth (1603), and died 1739. She was buried in St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and a portrait of her is in St. Margaret’s workhouse.

In Shiffnal (Salop), St. Andrew’s Church, are these tablets:

WILLIAM WAKLEY (124), baptized at Idsall, otherwise Shiffnal, May 1, 1590; and was buried at Adbaston, November 28, 1714. He lived in the reign of eight sovereigns.

MARY YATES (127), wife of Joseph Yates, of Lizard Common, Shiffnal, was born 1649, and buried August 7, 1776. She walked to London just after the fire in 1666, was hearty and strong at 120 years, and married, at 92 years of age, her third husband.

=Longius=, the name of the Roman soldier who pierced the crucified Saviour with a spear. The spear came into the possession of Joseph of Arimathea.—Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, i. 41 (1470).

=Longomonta´nus= (_Christian_), of Jutland, a Danish astronomer (1562-1647).

What did your Cardan [_an Italian astronomer_], and your Ptolemy, your Messahalah and your Longomontanus, your harmony of chiromancy with astrology?—W. Congreve, _Love for Love_, iv. (1695).

=Loningtoe= (_Mr._). Principal of the school-ship _Young America_, whose first voyage is described in _Outward Bound_, by William T. Adams, (Oliver Optic).

=Loose-Coat Field=. The battle of Stamford (1470) was so called, because the men led by Lord Wells, being attacked by the Yorkists, threw off their coats, that they might flee the faster.

Cast off their country’s coats, to haste their speed away.
Which “Loose-Coat Field” is called e’en to this day.
Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xxii. (1622).

=Lo´pe de Vega= (_Felix_), a Spanish poet born at Madrid. He was one of those who came in the famous “Armada” to invade England. Lope (2 _syl._) wrote altogether 1800 tragedies, comedies, dramas, or religious pieces called _autos sacramentales_ (1562-1635).

Her memory was a mine. She knew by heart
All Calderon and greater part of Lopé.
Byron, _Don Juan_, i. 11 (1819).

=Lopez=, the “Spanish curate.”—Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Spanish Curate_, (1622).

_Lopez_ (_Don_), a Portuguese nobleman, the father of Don Felix and Donna Isabella.—Mrs. Centlivre, _The Wonder_ (1714).

=Lord=, a hunchback. (Greek, _lordos_, “crooked”).

=Lord Peter=. The pope is so called in Dr. Arbuthnot’s _History of John Bull_. Swift, in his _Tale of a Tub_, introduces the three brothers, Peter, John, and Martin, meaning the pope, Calvin, and Luther.

=Lord Strutt=. Charles II., of Spain, is so called by Dr. Arbuthnot, in his _History of John Bull_ (1712).

Every one must remember the paroxysm of rage into which poor Lord Strutt fell, on hearing that his runaway servant, Nic. Frog, his clothier, John Bull, and his old enemy, Lewis Baboon, had come with quadrants, poles, and ink-horns, to survey his estate, and to draw his will for him.—Macaulay.

=Lord Thomas and Annet= had a lovers’ quarrel; whereupon, Lord Thomas, in his temper, went and offered marriage to the nut-brown maid who had houses and lands. On the wedding day, Annet went to the church, and Lord Thomas gave her a rose, but the nut-brown maid killed her with a “bodkin from her head-gear.” Lord Thomas, seeing Annet fall, plunged his dagger into the heart of the murderess, and then stabbed himself. Over the graves of Lord Thomas and the lair Annet grew “a bonny briar, and by this ye may ken that they were lovers dear.” In some versions of this story Annet is called “Elinor.”—Percy, _Reliques, etc._, III. iii.

=Lord of Crazy Castle=, John Hall Stevenson, author of _Crazy Tales_ (in verse). J. H. Stevenson lived at Skelton Castle, which was nicknamed “Crazy Castle” (1718-1780).

=Lord of the Isles=, Donald of Islay, who in 1346 reduced the Hebridês under his sway. The title of “lord of the Isles” had been borne by others for centuries before, was borne by Stevenson’s successors, and is now one of the titles of the prince of Wales.

Sir W. Scott has a metrical romance entitled _The Lord of the Isles_ (1815).

=Loredani= (_Giacomo_), interpreter of King Richard I.—Sir W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.).

=Loreda´no= (_James_), a Venetian patrician, and one of the Council of Ten. Loredano was the personal enemy of the Fos´cari.—Byron, _The Two Foscari_ (1820).

=Lorelei=. Syren, fabled to dwell in the Rhine, and sitting on the rocks, to lure by her song passers-by to destruction.

=Loren´zo=, a young man with whom Jes´sica, the daughter of the Jew, Shylock, elopes.—Shakespeare, _The Merchant of Venice_ (1698).

_Lorenzo_, an atheist and reprobate, whose remorse ends in despair.—Dr. Young, _Night Thoughts_ (1742-6).

⁂ Some affirm that Lorenzo is meant for the poet’s own son.

_Lorenzo_ (_Colonel_), a young libertine in Dryden’s drama, _The Spanish Fryar_ (1680).

=Lorimer=, one of the guard at Ardenvohr Castle.—Sir W. Scott, _Legend of Montrose_ (time, Charles I.).

=Loriot=, “the _confidante and servante_” of Louis XV. Loriot was the inventor of lifts, by which tables descended, and rose again covered with viands and vines.

The shifting sideboard plays its humble part,
Beyond the triumphs of a Loriot’s art.
S. Rogers, _Epistle to a Friend_ (1798).

=Lorma=, wife of Erragon, king of Sora, in Scandinavia. She fell in love with Aldo, a Caledonian officer in the king’s army. The guilty pair escaped to Morven, which Erragon forthwith invaded. Erragon encountered Aldo in single combat, and slew him; was himself slain in battle by Gaul, son of Morni; and Lorma died of grief.—Ossian, _The Battle of Lora_.

=Lorn= (_M’Dougal of_), a Highland chief in the army of Montrose.—Sir W. Scott, _Legend of Montrose_ (time, Charles I.).

=Lorna Doone=. Beautiful maiden brought up in the midst of the outlaw Doones, and afterwards married to John Ridd.—R. D. Blackmore, _Lorna Doone_.

=Lorrequer= (_Harry_), the hero and title of a military novel by Charles Lever.

=Lor´rimite= (3 _syl._), a malignant witch, who abetted and aided Ar´valan in his persecutions of Kail´yal, the beautiful and holy daughter of Ladur´lad.—Southey, _Curse of Kehama_, xi. (1809).

=Lorry= (_Jarvis_), one of the firm in Tellson’s bank, Temple Bar, and a friend of Dr. Manette. Jarvis Lorry was orderly, precise and methodical, but tender-hearted and affectionate.

He had a good leg and was a little vain of it. ... and his little sleek, crisp, flaxen wig looked as if it was spun silk... His face, habitually suppressed and quiet, was lighted up by a pair of moist, bright eyes.—C. Dickens, _A Tale of Two Cities_, i. 4 (1859).

=Losberne= (2 _syl._), the medical man called in by Mrs. Maylie to attend Oliver Twist, after the attempted burglary by Bill Sikes and his associates.—C. Dickens, _Oliver Twist_ (1837).

=Lot=, consul of Londonesia, and afterwards king of Norway. He was brother of Urian and Augusel, and married Anne (own sister of King Arthur), by whom he had two sons, Walgan and Modred.—Geoffrey, _British History_, viii. 21; ix. 9, 10 (1142).

⁂ This account differs so widely from that of Arthurian romance, that it is not possible to reconcile them. In the _History of Prince Arthur_, Lot, king of Orkney, marries Margawse, the “sister of King Arthur” (pt. i. 2). Tennyson, in his _Gareth and Lynette_, says that Lot’s wife was Bellicent. Again, the sons of Lot are called, in the _History_, Gaw´ain, Agravain, Ga´heris, and Gareth; Mordred is their half-brother, being the son of King Arthur and the same mother.—Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, i. 2, 35, 36 (1470).

_Lot_, king of Orkney. According to the _Morte d’Arthur_, King Lot’s wife was Margawse or Morgawse, sister of King Arthur, and their sons were Sir Gaw´ain, Sir Ag´ravain, Sir Ga´heris, and Sir Gareth.—Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, i. 36 (1470).

Once or twice Elain is called the wife of Lot, but this is a mistake. Elain was Arthur’s sister, by the same mother, and was the wife of Sir Nentres, of Carlot. Mordred was the son of Morgawse, by her brother Arthur, and consequently Gawain, Agravain, Gaheris, and Gareth were his half-brothers.

_Lot_, king of Orkney. According to Tennyson, King Lot’s wife was Bellicent, daughter of Gorloïs, lord of Tintag´il Castle, in Cornwall, and Lot was the father of Gaw´ain (2 _syl._) and Modred. This account differs entirely from the _History of Prince Arthur_, by Sir T. Malory. There the wife of Lot is called Margawse or Morgawse (Arthur’s sister). Geoffrey of Monmouth, on the other hand, calls her Anne (Arthur’s sister). The sons of Lot, according to the _History_, were Gawain, Agravain, Gaheris, and Gareth; Modred or Mordred being the offspring of Morgawse and Arthur. This ignoble birth the _History_ assigns as the reason of Mordred’s hatred to King Arthur, his adulterous father and uncle. Lot was subdued by King Arthur, fighting on behalf of Leodogran or Leodogrance, king of Cam´eliard.—See Tennyson, _Coming of Arthur_.

=Lot’s Wife=, Wâhela, who was confederate with the men of Sodom, and gave them notice when any stranger came to lodge in the house. Her sign was smoke by day and fire by night. Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt.—Jallâlo´ddin, _Al Zamakh_.

=Lothair=. Young English gentleman, the hero of the once-famous political novel of the same name, by Benjamin Disraeli (_Lord Beaconsfield_). The action of the story turns chiefly upon the vacillation of Lothair between the claims of the Roman Catholic and of the English Church. He decides to unite himself with the latter.

=Lotha´rio=, a noble cavalier of Florence, the friend of Anselmo. Anselmo induced him to put the fidelity of his wife, Camilla, to the test, that he might rejoice in her incorruptible virtue; but Camilla was not trial-proof, and eloped with Lothario. Anselmo then died of grief, Lothario was slain in battle, and Camilla died in a convent.—Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. iv. 5, 6 (“Fatal Curiosity,” 1605).

_Lothario_, a young Genoese nobleman, “haughty, gallant, gay, and perfidious.” He seduced Calista, daughter of Sciol´to (3 _syl._), a Genoese nobleman, and was killed in a duel by Altamont, the husband. This is the “gay Lothario,” which has become a household word for a libertine and male coquette.—N. Rowe, _The Fair Penitent_ (1703).

Is this the haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
Rowe, _The Fair Penitent_.

⁂ _The Fair Penitent_ is taken from Massinger’s _Fatal Dowry_, in which Lothario is called “Novall, Junior.”

=Lothian= (Scotland). So named from Llew, second son of Arthur; also called Lotus and Lothus. Arthur’s eldest son was Urian, and his youngest Arawn.

⁂ In some legends, Lothian is made the father of Modred or Medraut, leader of the rebellious army which fought at Camlan, A.D. 537, in which Arthur received his death-wound; but in Malory’s collection, called _The History of Prince Arthur_, Modred is called the son of Arthur by his own sister, the wife of King Lot.

=Lotte= (2 _syl._), a young woman of strong affections and domestic winning ways, the wife of Albert, a young German farmer. Werther loved Lotte when she was only betrothed to Albert, and continued to love her after she became a young wife. His mewling and puling after this “forbidden fruit,” which terminates in suicide, make up the sum and substance of the tale, which is told in the form of letters addressed to divers persons.—Goethe, _Sorrows of Werther_ (1774).

“Lotte” was Charlotte Buff, who married Kestner, Goethe’s friend, the “Albert” of the novel. Goethe was in love with Charlotte Buff, and her marriage with Kestner soured the temper of his over-sensitive mind.

=Lotus-Eaters= or _Lotoph´agi_, a people who ate of the lotus tree, the effect of which was to make them forget their friends and homes, and to lose all desire of returning to their native land. The lotus-eater only cares to live in ease, luxury, and idleness.—Homer, _Odyssey_, xi.

⁂ Tennyson has a poem called _The Lotos-Eaters_, a set of islanders who live in a dreamy idleness, weary of life and regardless of all its stirring events.

=Louis=, duc d’Orléans.—Sir W. Scott, _Quentin Durward_ (time, Edward IV.).

=Louis de Bourbon=, the prince-bishop of Liège [_Le.age_].—Sir W. Scott, _Quentin Durward_ (time, Edward IV.).

=Louis IX.=. The sum of the figures which designate the birth-date of this king will give his titular number. Thus, he was born in 1215, the sum of which figures is 9. This is true of several other kings. This discovery might form an occasional diversion on a dull evening. (See Louis XIV. and XVIII.).

=Louis XI.=, of France, introduced by Sir W. Scott in two novels, _Quentin Durward_ and _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).

Crafty, ambitious and cruel. He was the first monarch to establish post-offices in France (1435-1483).

⁂ In _Quentin Durward_ he appears first disguised as Maitre Pierre, a merchant.

=Louis XIII.=, of France, “infirm in health, in mind more feeble, and Richelieu’s plaything.”—Lord Lytton, _Richelieu_ (1839).

=Louis XIV.= It is rather remarkable that the number 14 is obtained by adding together the figures of his age at death, the figures which make the date of his coronation, and the figures of the date of his death. For example:

Age 77, which added together = 14.
Crowned 1643, which added together = 14.
Died 1715, which added together = 14.

_Louis XIV. and La Vallière_. Louis XIV. fell in love with La Vallière, a young lady in the queen’s train. He overheard the ladies chatting. One said, “How handsome looks the duke de Guiche to-night?” Another said, “Well to my taste, the graceful Grammont bears the bell from all.” A third remarked, “But then that charming Lauzun has so much wit.” But La Vallière said, “I scarcely marked them. When the king is by, who can have eyes, or ears, or thought for others?” and when the others chaffed her, she replied:

Who spoke of love?
The sunflower, gazing on the lord of heaven,
Asks but its sun to shine. Who spoke of love?
And who would wish the bright and lofty Louis
To stoop from glory?
Act i. 5.

Louis degraded this ethereal spirit into a “soiled dove,” and when she fled to a convent to quiet remorse, he fetched her out and took her to Versailles. Wholly unable to appreciate such love as that of La Vallière, he discarded her for Mde. de Montespan, and bade La Vallière marry some one. She obeyed the selfish monarch in word, by taking the veil of a Carmelite nun.—Lord Lytton, _The Duchess de la Vallière_ (1836).

_Louis XIV. and his Coach_. It was Lord Stair and not the duke of Chesterfield whom the _Grand Monarque_ commended for his tact in entering the royal carriage before his majesty, when politely bidden by him so to do.

=Louis XVIII.=, nicknamed _Des-huî-tres_, because he was a great feeder, like all the Bourbons, and especially fond of oysters. Of course the pun is on _dixhuit_ (18).

As in the case of Louis IX.(_q.v._), the sum of the figures which designate the birth-date of Louis XVIII. give his titular number. Thus, he was born in 1755, which added together equal 18.

=Louis Philippe=, of France. It is somewhat curious that the year of his birth, or the year of the queen’s birth, or the year of his flight, added to the year of his coronation, will give the year 1848, the date of his abdication. He was born 1773, his queen was born 1782, his flight was in 1809; whence we get:

1830 1830 1830 year of coronation.
1 } 1 } 1 }
7 } birth. 7 } queen’s 8 } flight.
7 } 8 } birth. 0 }
3 } 2 } 9 }
—— —— ——
1848 1848 1848 year of abdication.

(See NAPOLEON III. for a somewhat similar coincidence).

=Louisa=, daughter of Don Jerome, of Seville, in love with Don Antonio. Her father insists on her marrying Isaac Mendoza, a Portuguese Jew, and, as she refuses to obey him, he determines to lock her up in her chamber. In his blind rage, he makes a great mistake, for he locks up the duenna, and turns his daughter out of doors. Isaac arrives, is introduced to the locked-up lady, elopes with her, and marries her. Louisa takes refuge in St. Catherine’s Convent, and writes to her father for his consent to her marriage with the man of her choice. As Don Jerome takes it for granted she means Isaac, the Jew, he gives his consent freely. At breakfast-time it is discovered by the old man that Isaac has married the duenna, and Louisa, Don Antonio; but Don Jerome is well pleased and fully satisfied.—Sheridan, _The Duenna_ (1775).

Mrs. Mattocks (1745-1826) was the first “Louisa.”

_Louisa_, daughter of Russet, bailiff to the duchess. She was engaged to Henry, a private in the king’s army. Hearing a rumor of gallantry to the disadvantage of her lover, she consented to put his love to the test by pretending that she was about to marry Simkin. When Henry heard thereof, he gave himself up as a deserter, and was condemned to death. Louisa then went to the king to explain the whole matter, and returned with the young man’s pardon just as the muffled drums began the death march.—Dibdin, _The Deserter_ (1770).

=Louise=, (2 _syl._), the glee-maiden.—Sir W. Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time, Henry IV.).

=Louise= [=de Lascours=], wife of Ralph, captain of the _Uran´ia_, and mother of Martha (afterwards called Orgari´ta). Louise de Lascours sailed with her infant daughter and her husband in the _Urania_. Louise and the captain were drowned by the breaking up of an iceberg; but Martha was rescued by some wild Indians, who brought her up, and called her name Orgarita (“withered wheat”).—E. Stirling, _Orphan of the Frozen Sea_ (1856).

=Louisiana= (_Rogers_). Pretty, untrained daughter of a plain planter. A city woman takes a fancy to try an experiment upon her, invites her to visit her at the Springs, coaches her in etiquette and conceals her name and origin. Louisiana confides the result to the father of whom she has been ashamed:

“I was not bad quite enough to see them cast a slight on _you_.... I told them the truth—that you were my father, and that I loved you and was proud of you—that I might be ashamed of myself and all the rest, but not of you—never of you—for I wasn’t worthy to kiss your feet!”—Frances Hodgson Burnett, _Louisiana_ (1889).

=Loupgarou=, leader of the army of giants in alliance with the Dipsodes (2 _syl._). As he threatened to make mincemeat of Pantag´ruel, the prince gave him a kick which overthrew him, then, lifting him up by his ankles, he used him a quarter-staff. Having killed all the giants in the hostile army, Pantagruel flung the body of Loupgarou on the ground, and by so doing crushed a tom-cat, a tabby, a duck, and a brindled goose.—Rabelais, _Pantagruel_, ii. 29 (1533).

=Louponheight= (_The young laird of_), at the ball at Middlemas.—Sir W. Scott, _The Surgeon’s Daughter_ (time, George II.).

=Lourdis=, an idiotic scholar of Sorbonne.

De la Sorbonne un Docteur amoureux
Disoit ung jour à sa dame rebelle;
“Je ne puis rien meriter de vous, belle” ...
Arguo sic: “Si magister Lourdis
De sa Catin meriter ne peut rien;
Ergo ne peut meriter paradis,
Car, pour le moins, paradis la vaut bien.”
Marot, _Epigram_.

When Doctor Lourdis cried, in humble spirit,
The hand of Kath’rine he could never merit,
“Then heaven to thee,” said Kate, “can ne’er be given,
For less my worth, you must allow, than heaven.”

=Lourie= (_Tam_), the innkeeper at Marchthorn.—Sir W. Scott, _St. Ronan’s Well_ (time, George II.).

=Love=, patient, meek wife of Freedom Wheeler, who sinks—still meekly—into the grave, after disappointing him in his desire to have a son called by his and his father’s name.—Rose Terry Cooke, _Freedom Wheeler’s Controversy_.

_Love_, a drama by S. Knowles (1840). The Countess Catherine is taught by a serf named Huon, who is her secretary, and falls in love with him; but her pride struggles against such an unequal match. The duke, her father, hearing of his daughter’s love, commands Huon, on pain of death, to marry Catherine, a freed serf. He refuses; but the countess herself bids him obey. He plights his troth to Catherine, supposing it to be Catherine, the quondam serf, rushes to the wars, obtains great honors, becomes a prince, and then learns that the Catherine he has wed is the duke’s daughter.

_Love_, or rather affection, according to Plato, is disposed in the liver.

Within, some say, Love hath his habitation;
Not Cupid’s self, but Cupid’s better brother;
For Cupid’s self dwells with a lower nation,
But this, more sure, much chaster than the other.
Ph. Fletcher, _The Purple Island_ (1633).

_Love_. “_Man’s_ love is of man’s life a thing apart; ’tis _woman’s_ whole existence.”—Byron, _Don Juan_, i. 194 (1819).

_Love_.

’Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.
Tennyson, _In Memoriam_, xxvii.

Thomas Moore, in his _Irish Melodies_, expresses an opposite opinion:

Better far to be
In endless darkness lying
Than be in light and see
That light forever flying.
_All that’s Bright must Fade_.

_Love_. _All for Love or the World Well Lost_, a tragedy by Dryden, on the same subject as Shakespeare’s _Antony and Cleopatra_ (1679).

=Love á-la-Mode=, by C. Macklin (1779). The “love _à-la-mode_” is that of fortune-hunters. Charlotte Goodchild is courted by a Scotchman “of ponderous descent,” an Italian Jew broker of great fortune, and an Irishman in the Prussian army. It is given out that Charlotte has lost her money through the bankruptcy of Sir Theodore Goodchild, her guardian. Upon this, the _à-la-mode_ suitors withdraw, and leave Sir Callaghan O’Brallaghan, the true lover, master of the situation. The tale about the bankruptcy is, of course, a mere myth.

=Love-Chase= (_The_), a drama by S. Knowles (1837). Three lovers chased three beloved ones, with a view to marriage. (1) Waller loves Lydia, lady’s maid to Widow Green, but in reality the sister of Trueworth. She quitted home to avoid a hateful marriage, and took service for the nonce with Widow Green. (2) Wildrake loves Constance, daughter of Sir William Fondlove. (3) Sir William Fondlove, aged 60, loves Widow Green, aged 40. The difficulties to be overcome were these: The social position of Lydia galled the aristocratic pride of Waller, but love won the day. Wildrake and Constance sparred with each other, and hardly knew they loved till it dawned upon them that each might prefer some other, and then they felt that the loss would be irreparable. Widow Green set her heart on marrying Waller; but as Waller preferred Lydia, she accepted Sir William for better or worse.

=Love Doctor= (_The_), _L’Amour Médecin_, a comedy by Molière (1665). Lucinde, the daughter of Sganarelle, is in love, and the father calls in four doctors to consult upon the nature of her malady. They see the patient, and retire to consult together, but talk about Paris, about their visits, about the topics of the day; and when the father enters to know what opinion they have formed, they all prescribe different remedies, and pronounce different opinions. Lisette then calls in a “quack” doctor (Clitandre, the lover), who says that he must act on the imagination, and proposes a seeming marriage, to which Sganarelle assents, saying, “Voila un grand médecin.” The assistant, being a notary, Clitandre and Lucinde are formally married.

⁂ This comedy is the basis of the _Quack Doctor_, by Foote and Bickerstaff, only in the English version Mr. Ailwood is the patient.

=Love in a Village=, an opera by Isaac Bickerstaff. It contains two plots: the loves of Rosetta and young Meadows, and the loves of Lucinda and Jack Eustace. The entanglement is this: Rosetta’s father wanted her to marry young Meadows, and Sir William Meadows wanted his son to marry Rosetta; but as the young people had never seen each other, they turned restive and ran away. It so happened that both took service with Justice Woodcock—Rosetta as chamber-maid, and Meadows as gardener. Here they fell in love with each other, and ultimately married, to the delight of all concerned. The other part of the plot is this:

Lucinda was the daughter of Justice Woodcock, and fell in love with Jack Eustace while nursing her sick mother, who died. The justice had never seen the young man, but resolutely forbade the connection; whereupon Jack Eustace entered the house as a music-master, and, by the kind offices of friends, all came right at last.

=Love Makes a Man=, a comedy concocted by Colley Cibber, by welding together two of the comedies of Beaumont and Fletcher, viz., the _Elder Brother_ and the _Custom of the Country_. Carlos, a young student (son of Antonio), sees Angelina, the daughter of Charino, and falls in love with her. His character instantly changes, and the modest, diffident bookworm becomes energetic, manly, and resolute. Angelina is promised by her father to Clodio, a coxcomb, the younger brother of Carlos; but the student elopes with her. They are taken captives, but meet after several adventures, and become duly engaged. Clodio, who goes in search of the fugitives, meets with Elvira, to whom he engages himself, and thus leaves the field open to his brother Carlos.

=Love’s Labor’s Lost.= Ferdinand, king of Navarre, with three lords named Biron, Dumain, and Longaville, agreed to spend three years in study, during which time no woman was to approach the court. Scarcely had they signed the compact, when the princess of France, attended by Rosaline, Maria, and Katharine, besought an interview respecting certain debts said to be due from the king of France to the king of Navarre. The four gentlemen fell in love with the four ladies: the king with the princess, Biron with Rosaline, Longaville with Maria, and Dumain with Katharine. In order to carry their suits, the four gentlemen, disguised as Muscovites, presented themselves before the ladies; but the ladies, being warned of the masquerade, disguised themselves also, so that the gentlemen in every case addressed the wrong lady. However, it was at length arranged that the suits should be deferred for twelve months and a day; and if, at the expiration of that time, they remained of the same mind, the matter should be taken into serious consideration.—Shakespeare, _Love’s Labor’s Lost_ (1594).

=Loves of the Angels=, the stories of three angels, in verse, by T. Moore (1822). The stories are founded on the Eastern tale of _Harût and Marût_, and the rabbinical fictions of the loves of _Uzziel and Shamchazai._

1. The first angel fell in love with Lea, whom he saw bathing. She returned love for love, but his love was carnal, her’s heavenly. He loved the woman, she loved the angel. One day, the angel told her the spell-word which opens the gates of heaven. She pronounced it, and rose through the air into paradise, while the angel became imbruted, being no longer an angel of light, but “of the earth, earthy.”

2. The second angel was Rubi, one of the seraphs. He fell in love with Liris, who asked him to come in all his celestial glory. He did so; and she, rushing into his arms, was burnt to death; but the kiss she gave him became a brand on his face for ever.

3. The third angel was Zaraph, who loved Nama. It was Nama’s desire to love without control, and to love holily: but as she had fixed her love on a creature, and not on the Creator, both she and Zaraph were doomed to live among the things that perish, till this mortal is swallowed up of immortality, when Nama and Zaraph will be admitted into the realms of everlasting love.