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then calls in a "quack" doctor (Clitamlre. the lover . 

 who says that he must act on the imagination, and pro- 

 poses a seeming marriage, to which Sgunarelle 

 The assistant being a notary, Clitandre and Lucinde are 

 married. 



Love's Labor's Lost. Ferdinand, King of Navarre, 

 with three lords named Biron, Duinain, and Longaville, 

 agree to spend three years in study, during which time 

 no woman was to approach the court. The compact 

 signed all went well until the princess of France, attended 

 ;'ine. Maria, and Katharine, besought an inter- 

 view re- :'ain delits said to he due from the 

 King of France to the King of Navarre. The four 

 gentlemen fell in love with the four ladies. The love 

 of the king Bought the princess, hy right, Hiron loved 

 Rosaline, l.ongaville admired Maria, and Duniain adored 

 Katharine. In order to carry their suits, the four gen- 

 tlemen, disguised as Muscovites, presented themselves 

 before the ladies; but the ladies being warned of the 

 masquerade, disguised themselves also, so that the 

 gentlemen in -he wrong lady. A 

 mutual arrangement was made that the suits should be 

 . i\.r twelve months and a day; and if, at the 

 expiration of that time, they remained of the same mind, 

 the matter should be taken into serious consideration, 

 -pere.) 



l.o\ex ( f the Angels. A rhymed story written by 

 Thomas Moore, it may be called the stories of three 

 angels, and was founded on the pastern tale of " Harfit 

 and Marut, and the rabbinical fictions of the loves of" 

 " I'zziel and Shamchazai." (1) The first angel fell in 

 love with Lea, whom he saw bathing. She returned 

 love for love, but his love was carnal, hers heavenly. 

 He loved the woman she loved the angel. At last the 

 angel gave to her the pass-word which should open the 

 gates of heaven. She pronounced it, and rose through 

 the air into paradise. The angel degenerated and 

 became no longer an angel of light, but "of the earth, 

 earthy." (2) The second angel was Rubi, one of the 

 seraphs. He loved Liris, who asked him to come in all 

 his celestial glory. He did so; and she, rushing into his 

 arms, was burnt to death; but the kiss she gave him 

 became a brand on his face forever. (3) The third 

 angel was Zaraph, who loved Nama. It was Nama's 

 desire to love without control, and to love holily; but 

 as she fixed her love on a creature, and not on the Creator, 

 both she and Zaraph were doomed to live among the 

 things that perish. When the end of all shall come, 

 Nama and Zaraph will be admitted into the realms of 

 everlasting love. 



Lover's Vows. Altered from Kotzebue's. Baron 

 Wildenhaim, in his youth, seduced Agatha Friburg, 

 and then forsook her. She had a son Frederick, who 

 became a soldier. While on furlough, he came to spend 

 his time with his mother, and found her in abject poverty 

 and almost starved. A poor cottager took her in, while 

 Frederick, who had no money, went to beg charity. 

 Count Wildenhaim was out with his gun, and Frederick 

 asked alms of him. The count gave him a shilling; 

 Frederick demanded more, and, being refused, seized 

 the baron by the throat. The keepers arrived and put 

 him in the castle dungeon. Here he was visited by the 

 chaplain, and it came out that the count was his father. 

 The chaplain being appealed to, told the count the only 

 reparation he could make would be to marry Agatha 

 and acknowledge the young soldier to be his son. This 

 advice he followed, and Agatha Friburg, the beggar, 

 became the baroness Wildenhaim of Wildenhaim Castle. 



Loving Cup. A large cup passed round from guest 

 to guest at state banquets and city feasts. On the 

 introduction of Christianity, the custom of wassailing 

 was not abolished, but it assumed a religious aspect. 

 The monks called the wassail bowl the loving cup. In 

 the universities the term "Grace Cup" is more general. 

 Immediately after grace the silver cup, filled with wine, 

 is passed round. The master and wardens drink wel- 

 come to their guests; the cup is then passed to all the 

 guests. A loving or grace cup should have two handles, 

 and some have four. This ceremony, of drinking from 

 one cup and passing it round, was observed in the Jewish 

 paschal supper, and our Lord refers to the custom in 

 the words, "Drink ye all of it." 



Lubberland. An imaginary country of idleness 

 and luxury. The name has been applied to certain 

 cities in burlesque. 



Loot-nan* An imaginary island whose inhabitants 

 have the gift of eternal life lacking with it the gift of 

 immortal health and strength. 



Lumbercourt, Lord. A voluptuary, greatly in 

 debt, who consented, for a good money consideration, 

 to give his daughter to Egerton McSycophant. Egerton, 

 however, had no fancy for the lady, but married Con- 

 stantia, the girl of his choice. His lordship was in alarm 



lot this should be his ruin; but Sir Pertinax told him 

 the bargain should still remain good if Kgerton's younger 

 brother, Sandy, were accepted by his lordship instead. 

 To this his lordship readily agreed. 



Luinberc ourt. Lady Kmlolpha, daughter of 

 Lord Lumberoourt, who, for a consideration, consented 

 to marry Kgerton McSycophant; but as Kgerton had 

 no fancy for the lady, she agreed to marry Egerton's 

 brother Sandy on the same terms. 



Lure of the Labrador Wild. The. A recital of 

 the ill-fated expedition to Labrador undertaken by 

 Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., during the summer of 190;?. 

 The party consisted of Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Wallace, and 

 a half-breed Cree Indian named Flson, who proved 

 himself a veritable hero. As is generally known, the 

 object of the party was to reach the interior of Labrador 

 over a portion of that country unexplored, or at least 

 unmapped by white men. This purpose was only par- 

 tially carried out. The winter came on long before 

 Hubbard was ready to turn back, the provisions were 

 exhausted, game was scarce, and the fish [ailed t> 

 to the fly. On the return journey toward the c, :i -t 

 Hubbard gave out and had to be left behind until aid 

 could be brought. Wallace succeeded in finding some 



i provisions which had been thrown aside on the inland 

 trip and had returned within a few hundred feet of 

 llubbard's tent, but without finding it. Elson, the 

 half-breed, managed to reach a trapper's camp and sent. 

 back a relief expedition, which picked up Wallace, and 

 later found the body of Hubbard, who had died of 

 starvation. 



Lusiad, The. The only Portuguese poem that has 

 gained a world-wide celebrity. It was written by Lull 

 de Camoens, appeared in 1572, and was entitled " ( >s 

 Lusiadas," the " Lusitanians," i. e., the Portuguese the 

 subject being the conquests of that nation in India. lt 



; is divided into ten cantos, containing 1,102 stanzas. It 



i has been translated into English, but it has never been 

 popular out of Portugal. The Lusiad celebrates the 



I chief events in the history of Portugal, and is remarkable 



i as the only modern epic poem which is pervaded by any- 



l thing approaching the national and popular spirit of 

 ancient epic poems. Bacchus was the guardian power of 

 the Mohammedans, and Venus or Divine Love of the Lusi- 

 ans. The fleet first sailed to Mozambique, then to Melinda 



I (in Africa), where the adventurers were hospitably 

 received and provided with a pilot to conduct them 



I to India. In the Indian Ocean, Bacchus tried to de- 

 stroy the fleet; Venus, however, calmed the sea, and 



| Gama arrived at India in safety. Having accomplished his 

 object, he returned to Lisbon. Among the most famous 



' passages are the tragical story of Inez de Castro, and the 

 apparition of the giant Adamastor, who appears as the 



i Spirit of the Storm to Vasco de Gama, when crossing the 

 Cape. The versification of "The Lusiad" is extremely 

 charming. The best edition of "The Lusiad" was pub- 

 lished in Paris (1817), reprinted in 1819, and again, in 

 1823. "The Lusiad" has been translated into Spanish, 

 French, Italian, English, Polish, and German. 



Lusitania. The ancient name of Portugal; so called 



i from Lusus, the companion of Bacchus in his travels. 

 He colonized the country, and called it ".Lusitania," ami 



' the colonists "Lusians." 



Lustrum. The solemn offering made for expiation 

 and purification by one of the censors in the name of the 

 Roman people at the conclusion of the Census. The 

 animals offered in sacrifice were a boar, sheep, and bull. 

 They were led round the assembled people on the Campus 

 Martius before being sacrificed. As the census was 

 quinquennial, the word "lustrum" came to signify a 

 period of five years. 



Luther's Postil Gospels. Advent, Christmas, and 

 Epiphany sermons, first published in Latin in 1521, and 

 dedicated to his protector, the Elector Frederick. Trans- 

 lated immediately into German, Luther's postils, i. e., 

 homilies, on the Gospels are esteemed the best of his 

 sermons. 



Lybius, Sir. A very young knight who undertook 

 to rescue the lady of Sinacfone. After many adventures 

 with knights, giants, and enchanters, he entered the 

 palace. Presently the whole edifice fell to pieces and a 

 horrible serpent coiled round his neck. The spell being 

 broken, the serpent turned into the lady of Sinadone 

 herself, rejoicing in her rescue she wed the young knight. 

 (Liblaux, a romance.) 



Lycidas. The name under which Milton celebrates 

 the untimely death of Edward King, who was drowned 

 in the passage from Chester to Ireland, August 10, 1637. 

 He was the son of Sir John King, secretary for Ireland. 



Lydia. Daughter of the King of Lydia, was sought 

 in marriage by Alcestes, a Tracian knight; his suit was 

 refused, and he repaired to the King of Armenia, who 

 gave him an army, with which he laid siege to Lydia. 



