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Lilis or Lilith, Adam’s wife before Eve was created. Lilis refused to submit to Adam, and was turned out of paradise; but she still haunts the air, and is especially hostile to new-born children.

(Goethe has introduced her in his Faust, 1790.)

Lillia-Bianca, the bright airy daughter of Nantolet, beloved by Pinac the fellow-traveller of Mirabel “the wild goose.”—Fletcher: The Wild-goose Chase (1652).

Lilli-burlero, bullen-a-la! a song which greatly contributed to deprive James II. of his three kingdoms, and to drive him into exile. He had appointed Richard Talbot earl of Tyrconnel, a most out-and-out papist, to the lieutenancy of Ireland, in 1686, and the violence of his administration gave great offence to the protestant party. The song was written in 1683 or 1684, and the king abdicated in 1688.

Ho! broder Teague, dost hear de decree?
Lilli-burlero, bullen-a-la!
Dat we shall have a new deputie?
Lilli- burlero, bullen-a-la!
Lero, lero, lilli-burlero,
Lero, lero, bullen-a-la!
Ho! by shain’t Tyburn, it is de Talbote;
Lilli- burlero, bullen-a-la!
And he will cut de Englishmen’s troate!
Lilli-burlero, bullen-a-la!
Lero, lero, lilli-burlero,
Lero, lero, bullen-a-la!
   —(Attributed to lord Wharton.)

The song is inserted in Percy’s Reliques, ser. iii. bk. iii. 23.

Lilliput, the country of the Lilliputians, a race of pygmies of very diminutive size, to whom Gulliver appeared a monstrous giant.—Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (“Voyage to Lilliput,” 1726).

N.B.—The voyage to Lilliput is a satire on the manners and habits of George I.

Lilly, the wife of Andrew. Andrew is the servant of Charles Brisac a scholar.—Fletcher: The Elder Brother (1637).

Lilly (William), an English astrologer, who was employed during the Civil Wars by both parties; and even Charles I. consulted him about his projected escape from Carisbrooke Castle (1602–1681). (See Lenormand, p. 605.)

He talks of Raymond Lully [q.v.] and the ghost of Lilly.—Congreve: Love for Love, iii. (1695).