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handfome prefent, and gave him expe&ations of prefer¬ 
ment. Elated with this diftinclion, with the vanity of a 
young author and the credulity of a young man, he con- 
lidered his fortune as eltahlidled ; and, neglecting every 
Other purl'uif, became an attendant at the mini Iter’s levees, 
where lie con traded habits of indolence and expenfe with¬ 
out obtaining any advantage. The ltage now ottered it- 
felf as an afylutn from the difficulties he had involved 
hinifelf in ; and therefore, changing his name to Love, 
(it is faid from his wife’s maiden name rAmour,) he made 
his firft eifays in lipplling companies. He afterwards per¬ 
formed both at Dublin and Edinburgh, and at the latter 
place refided fome years as manager. At length he re¬ 
ceived, in the year 1762, an invitation toDrury-lane theatre, 
where he continued during the remainder of his life. In 
1765, with the affiftance of his brother, he ereded a theatre 
at Richmond, and obtained a licenfe for performing in it; 
but did not receive any benefit from it, as the iuccefs by 
no means anlwered his expectations. He died about the 
beginning of the year x 774. He neither as an aCtor or 
author attained any high degree of excellence. Falftaff 
was the charader in which he moft excelled. As an au¬ 
thor he has given the world the following pieces: 1. Pa¬ 
mela, a comedy, 1742. 2. The Witches, a pantomime, 
1762. 3. Rites of Hecate, a pantomime, 1764. 4. The 
Hermit, a pantomime, 1766. 5. Village Wedding, 1767. 
6. Ladies’ Frolic, an opera, 1770. 7. City Madam, a co¬ 
medy, 1771. 
LOVE (Tree of.) See Cercis. 
LQV'E-AFFAMISHED, adj. Famifhed through love s 
With light thereof I do mvfelf fuftain, 
And thereon feed my love-offamifht heart. Spcnfer. 
LOV'E-APPLE. See Solanum lycoperficum. 
Love-apple, though its flower lefs fair appears. 
Its golden fruit deferves the name it bears. Tate. 
LOVE-lies-a-BLEE'DING. See Amaranthus cau- 
datus, vol. i. 
LOV'E-BORN, adj. Produced by love; the confe- 
quence of love r 
Let mutual joys our mutual truft combine. 
And love and love-born confidence be thine. Pope. 
LOV'E-BROKER, f. A go-between in matters of love, 
.—There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in 
man’s commendation with woman, than report of valour. 
Shakefpeare's Twelfth Night. 
LOV'E-CHILD,/! A low phrafe for a baftard. 
LOV'E-DARTING, adj. Darting love : 
What need a vermeil-tindur’d lip for that. 
Love-darting eyes, and trelfes like the morn l Milton. 
LOV'E-DAY, f. The day on which any difpute was 
amicably fettled between neighbours ; a day in which one 
neighbour helps another without hire. 
LOVE-DE'AN, a village in Iiampfhire : three miles 
and a half from Hambledon. 
LOVEDISCOUR'SE,y Convention upon the fubjeft 
of love : 
My tales of love were wont to weary you: 
I know you joy not in a love-aifcourfe. Shakefpeare. 
“LOV'E-FLOWER. See Xylophylla. 
LOV'E-FLOWER (Indian.) See Phyllanthus. 
LQV'E-JUICE, f. Juice to create love: 
Thou haft miftaken quite. 
And laid the love-juice on fome true-love’s fight. Shakfp. 
LOV'E-KNOT , f. A complicated figure, by which af- 
feflion interchanged is figured. 
LOV'E-LABOURED, adj , Laboured through love: 
Where filence yields 
To the night-warbling bird, that now awake 
Tunes fweeteft his love-labour’d fong. 
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LOVE-LEAjR/NEZ>, adj. Acquired in eonfequence of 
love: 
Hearken to the birds’ love-learned fong 
The dewy leaves among. Spenfer's Epithal&m. 
LOV'E-LETTER,/ Letter of courtlhip.—The children 
are educated in the different notions of their parents: the 
fons follow the father, while the daughters read love-letters 
and romances to their mother. Addifon's Spectator . 
LOV'E-LORN, adj. Forfaken of one’s love : 
The love-lorn nightingale 
Nightly to thee her fad fong mourneth well. Milton, 
LOV'E-MAKING,/ Courtlhip.—Theenquiry of truth, 
which is the love-making or wooing of it ; the knowledge 
of truth, the preference of it; and the belief of truth, the 
enjoying of it, is the fovereign good of human nature. 
Bacon. 
LOVE-xn-a-MIS'T. See Passiplora. 
LOV'E-MONGER, f. One who deals in affairs of love. 
—Thou art an old love-monger, and fpeakelt flcilfully. 
Shakefpeare. 
LOVE-PI'NED, adj. Wafted by love: 
Unquiet thought ? whom at the firft I bred 
Of th’ inward bale of my love-pined heart. 
And fithence have with fighs and forrows fed. 
Till greater than my womb thou waxen art. Spcnfer . 
LOV'E-POTION, f. (fee p. 690.) A medicine to ex¬ 
cite love.—A love-potion works more by the ftrength of 
charm than nature. Collier on Popularity. 
LOVE-QUAR'REL, J. The falling-out of lovers.—a 
Love-quarrels oft in pleafing concord end. Milton. 
LOVE-SE'CRET, f. Secret between lovers: 
What danger, Arimant, is this you fear ? 
Or what love-Jecret which I mutt not hear ? Dryden, 
LOV'E-SHAFT , f. Cupid’s arrow : 
A certain aim he took 
At a fair veftal throned by the weft, 
And loos’d his love-Jhaft fmartly from his bow. Shakefpeare. 
LOV'E-SICK, adj, Difordered with love; languilhing 
with amorous defire : 
To the dear miftrefs of my love-fck mind. 
Her fwain a pretty prefent has defign’d. Dryden . 
LOV'E-SONG, f. Song expreffing love: 
Poor Romeo is already dead ! 
Stabb’d with a white wench’s black eye. 
Run through the ear with a love-fong. Shakefpeare ., 
LOV'E-SONG, adj. Trifling; unprofitable: 
Love-fong weeds and fatyrick thorns are grown, 
Where feeds of better arts were early fown. Donne; 
LOV'E-SUIT,/ Courtlhip s 
His love fuit hath been to me 
As fearful as a liege. Shakefpeare's Cymbeline. 
LOV'E-TALE, f. Narrative of love.—Cato’s a proper 
perfon to entrutt a love-tale with l Addifon. 
The love-tale 
Infefled Sion’s daughters with like heat; 
Whofe wanton paflions in the facred porch 
Ezekiel faw. Milton's Paradife Lojl. 
LOV'E-THOUGHT, /. Amorous fancy : 
Away to fweet beds of flowers, 
Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers. Shakefp. 
LOV'E-TOY, f. Small prefents given by lovers.—Has 
this amofous gentleman prefented himfelf with any love- 
toys, fuch as gold fnuff-boxes ? Arbulhnot and Pope, 
LOV'E-TRICK, f. Art of expreffing love : 
Other difports than dancing jollities; 
Other love-tricks than glancing with the eyes, Donne. 
LOU'ECHi, 
Milton, 
