Chapter Law Latin to Le Roi le Veut of L by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Lazy Lawrence of Lubberland The hero of a popular tale. He served the schoolmaster, the squire's cook, the farmer, and his own wife, which was accounted high treason in Lubberland. One of Miss Edgeworth's tales, in the Parents' Assistant, is called Lazy Lawrence.

Lazy Lobkin (A). A lob (says Halliwell) is “the last person in a race.” (Somersetshire). (Welsh llob, a dolt, our “lubber.”)

“A lazy lobkin, like an idle loute.”
Breton: Olde Madcappes, etc. (1602).

Lazy Man's Load One too heavy to be carried; so called because lazy people, to save themselves the trouble of coming a second time, are apt to over-load themselves.

Lazyland (Gone to). Given up to indolence and idleness.

Lazzaroni (See Lazarone .)

L'Etat c'est Moi (I am the State). The saying and belief of Louis XIV. On this principle he acted with tolerable consistency.

Le Roi le Veut (French, The king wills it.) The form of royal assent made by the clerk of parliament to bills submitted to the Crown. The dissent is expressed by Le roi s'avisera (the king will give it his consideration).