Chapter Lovers' Leap to Lucifera of L by Brewer's Readers Handbook

and lord Arthur Bucklaw, alias Frank Hayston laird of Bucklaw. Unknown to the brother, Edgardo (Edgar) master of Ravenswood (whose family had long had a feud with the Lammermoors) was betrothed to Lucy. While Edgardo was absent in France, Lucia (Lucy) is made to believe that he is unfaithful to her, and in her temper she consents to marry the laird of Bucklaw, but on the wedding night she stabs him, goes mad, and dies.—Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (an opera, 1835); sir W. Scott’s novel The Bride of Lammermoor (time, William III.).

Luciana, sister of Adriana. She marries Antipholus of Syracuse.—Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors (1593).

Lucida, the lady-love of sir Ferramont.—Spenser: Faërie Queene, iv. 5 (1596).

Lucifer is described by Dantê as a huge giant, with three faces: one red, indicative of ange r; one yellow, indicative of envy; and one black, indicative of melancholy. Between his shoulders, the poet says, there shot forth two enormous wings, without plumage, “in texture like a bat’s.” With these “he flapped i’ the air,” and “Cocytus to its depth was frozen.” “At six eyes he wept,” and at every mouth he champed a sinner.—Dante: Hell, xxxiv. (1301).

Lucifer is one of the characters in Bailey’s Festus. Hepworth Dixon says that Bailey’s Festus is not a bold bad man, like Marlowe’s; nor a proud defiant one, like Milton’s; nor a sneering sarcastic one, like Goethe’s; but the “principle of evil” personified.

Lucifera (Pride), daughter of Pluto and Proser’pina. Her usher was Vanity. Her chariot was drawn by six different beasts, on each of which was seated one of the queen’s counsellors. The foremost beast was an ass, ridden by Idleness who resembled a monk; paired with the ass was a swine, on which rode Gluttony clad in vine leaves. Next came a goat, ridden by Lechery arrayed in green; paired with the goat was a camel, on which rode Avarice in threadbare coat and cobbled shoes. The next beast was a wolf, bestrid by Envy arrayed in a kirtle full of eyes; and paired with the wolf was a lion, bestrid by Wrath in a robe all blood-stained. The coachman of the team was Satan.

Lo! underneath her scornful feet was lain
A dreadful dragon, with a hideous train;
And in her hand she held a mirror bright,
Wherein her face she often viewëd fain.
   —Spenser: Faërie Queene, i. 4 (1590).