Chapter LOVE to Loves of the Angels of L by Brewer's Readers Handbook

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; but in the English version Mr. Ailwood is the patient.)

Love for Love, a most successful comedy by Congreve (1695).

Love in a Village, an opera by Isaac Bickerstaff (1762). It contains two plots: (1) the loves of Rosetta and young Meadows; and (2) 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 (1694) by welding together two of the comedies of Fletcher, viz. the Elder Brother and the Custom of the Country. (For the plot, see Carlos, No. 1.)

Love-Producers.

(1) It is a Basque superstition that yellow hair in a man is irresistible with women; hence every women who set eyes on Ezkabi Fidel, the golden-haired, fell in love with him.

(2) It is a West Highland superstition that a beauty spot cannot be resisted; hence Diarmaid (q.v.) inspired masterless love by a beauty spot.

(3) In Greek fable, a cestus worn by a woman inspired love; hence Aphroditê was irresistible on account of her cestus.

(4) In the Middle Ages, love-powders were advertised for sale, and a wise senator of Venice was not ashamed to urge on his reverend brethren, as a fact, that Othello had won the love of Desdemona “by foul charms,” drugs, minerals, spells, potions of mountebanks, or some dram “powerful o’er the blood” to awaken love.

(5) Theocrîtos and Virgil have both introduced in their pastorals women using charms and incantations to inspire or recover the affection of the opposite sex.

(6) Gay, in the Shepherd’s Week, makes the mistress of Lubberkin spend all her money in buying a love-powder Froissart says that Gaston, son of the count de Foix, received a bag of powder from his uncle (Charles the Bad) for restoring the love of his father to his mother. The love of Tristram and Ysold is attributed to their drinking on their journey a love-potion designed for king Mark, the intended husband of the fair princess.

(7) An Irish superstition is that if a lover will run a hair of the object beloved through the fleshy part of a dead man’s leg, the person from whom the hair was taken will go mad with love.

(8) We are told that Charlemagne was bewitched by a ring, and that he followed any one who possessed this ring as a needle follows a loadstone (see p. 196).