Chapter Lotus-Eaters to Louvre of L by Brewer's Readers Handbook

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.”
   —E. C. B.

Lourie (Tam), the innkeeper at Marchthorn.—Sir W. Scott: St. Ronan’s Well (time, George III.).

Lousiad (The), an heroi-comic poem in five cantos, by John Wolcot (Peter Pindar), founded on the appearance of a louse creeping over some green peas served to George III. at dinner. In consequence thereof, an order was issued that all servants in the king’s kitchen must have their heads shaved (1786–89).

Louvre (The), a corruption of lupara, as it is called in old title-deeds. Dagobert built here a hunting-box, the nucleus of the future pile of buildings.

The Louvre of St. Petersburg, the Hermitage, an imperial museum.