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Loyale Epée (La), “the honest soldier,” that is, marshal de MacMahon (1808, president of France from 1873 to 1879, died 1893).

Loys de Dreux, a young Breton nobleman, who joined the Druses, and was appointed their prefect.

Loys the boy stood on the leading prow,
Conspicuous in his gay attire.
   —R. Browning: The Return of the Druses, i.

Luath , Cuthullin’s “swift-footed hound.”—Ossian: Fingal, ii.

Fingal had a dog called “Luath” and another called “Bran.”

In Robert Burns’s poem, called The Twa Dogs, the poor man’s dog which represents the peasantry is called “Luath,” and the gentleman’s dog is “Cæsar.”

Lubar, a river of Ulster, which flows between the two mountains Cromleach and Crommal.—Ossian.

Lubber-Land or Cockagne , London.

The golden age was represented in the same ridiculous… mode of description as the Pays de la Cocagne of the French minstrels, or the popular ideas of “Lubber-land” in England.—Sir W. Scott: The Drama.

Lucan (Sir), sometimes called “sir Lucas,” butler of king Arthur, and a knight of the Round Table.—Sir T. Malory: History of Prince Arthur (“Lucan,” ii. 160; “Lucas,” ii. 78; 1470).

Lucan’s Pharsalia. (See Pharsalia.)

Lucasta, whom Richard Lovelace celebrates, was Lucy Sacheverell. (Lucycasta or Lux casta, “chaste light.”)

Lucca, a city of Italy, noted for its volto santo, a wooden crucifix, on the cathedral, to which a peculiar veneration is paid. The ordinary oath of William Rufus was, “By the sacred face of Lucca!” (See Oaths.)

Lucentio, son of Vicentio of Pisa. He marries Bianca sister of Katharina “the Shrew” of Padua.—Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew (1594).

Lucetta, waiting-woman of, Julia the lady-love of Protheus (one of the heroes of the play).—Shakespeare: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594).

Lucia, daughter of Lucius (one of the friends of Cato at Utica, and a member of the mimic senate). Lucia was loved by both the sons of Cato, but she preferred the more temperate Porcius to the vehement Marcus, Marcus, being slain, left the field open to the elder brother.—Addison: Cato (1713).

Lucia, in The Cheats of Scapin, Otway’s version of Les Fourberies de Scapin, by Molière. Lucia, in Molière’s comedy, is called “Zerbinette;” her father Thrifty is called“Argante;” her brother Octavian is “Octave;” and her sweetheart Leander son of Gripe is called by Molière “Léandre son of Géronte.”

Lucia (St,). Struck on St. Lucia’s thorn, on the rack, in torment, much perplexed and annoyed. St. Lucia was a virgin martyr, put to death at Syracuse in 304. Her fete-day is December 13. The “thorn” referred to is in reality the point of a sword, shown in all paintings

of the saint, protruding through the neck.

If don’t recruit…I shall be struck upon St. Lucia’s thorn.—Cervantes: Don Qnixote, II. i. 3 (1615).

Lucia di Lammermoor, called by sir W. Scott “Lucy Ashton,” sister of lord Henry Ashton of Lammermoor. In order to retrieve the broken fortune of the family, lord Henry arranged a marriage between his sister