Chapter Lovegold to Lovers Struck by Lightning of L by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Lovers Struck by Lightning, John Hewit and Sarah Drew of Stanton Harcourt, near Oxford (July 31, 1718). Gay gives a full description of the incident in one of his letters. On the morning that they obtained the consent of their parents to the match, they went together into a field to gather wild flowers, when a thunderstorm overtook them and both were killed. Pope wrote their epitaph.

N.B.—Probably Thomson had this incident in view in his tale of Celadon and Amelia. (See Seasons, “Summer,” 1727.)