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LOU'ECH. See Leuk, vol. xii. p. 557, where the baths 
near this place have been (lightly mentioned. Thefebaths 
are lituated in deep valley, furrounded on the eaft, weft, 
and north, by mountains; hence the temperature of the 
air is remarkably mild, and the foil fertile; the Dala, which 
flows from the neighbouring glaciers, winds through the 
valley, and runs into the Rhone near Louech. The heat 
of the principal fpringis eftimated equal to forty-three de¬ 
grees of Reaumur's thermometer. The baths are emptied, 
cleaned, and filled again, every evening, that the water 
may cool during the night, and be ready for the bathers 
in the morning ; its temperature is thus reduced to about 
twenty-eight degrees. 
Thefe waters have no peculiar flavour either of fulphur 
or fixed air; and, notvvithftanding their great heat, do 
not boil fooner on the fire than thofe of the coldeft fpring. 
They abound with crocus rrlartis ;"and the internal and ex¬ 
ternal ufe of them is recommended in all thofe cafes in 
which warm mineral baths are ufually prefcribed. Hiji. 
of the Phil. Soc. of Laufanne. 
^ LOV'ELACE (Richard), an elegant poet of the feven- 
teenth century, was the eldeft fon of fir William Love¬ 
lace, of Woolwich in Kent, and was born in that coun¬ 
try about 1618. He received his grammar-learning at the 
Charter-houfe ; and, in the year 1634, became a gentle¬ 
man-commoner of Gloucefter-hall, Oxford ; being then, 
as Wood obferves,“ accounted the molt amiable and beau¬ 
tiful perfon that eye ever beheld, a perfon alfo of innate 
modefty, virtue, and courtly deportment ; which made him 
then, but efpeeially after, when he retired to the great city, 
much admired by the female lex.” In 1636, on the king’s 
corning to Oxford, he was created M. A. and, leaving the 
univerfity, retired, as Wood phrafes it, in great fplendour 
to the court, where, being taken into the favour of lord 
Goring, he became a foldier ; and was firft an enfign,and 
afterwards a captain. On the pacification at Berwick, he re¬ 
turned to his native country, and took poflefiion of his ellate, 
worth about five hundred pounds per annum ; and about 
the fame time was deputed by the county to deliver the 
Kentifh petition to the houfe of commons; which giving 
offence, he was ordered into cuftody, and confined in the 
Gate-houfe, from whence he was 'releafed on giving bail, 
in 40,000!. not to go beyond the lines of communication 
without a pal’s from the Speaker. During the time of his 
confinement to London, he lived beyond the income of his 
eftate,chiefly to iupport the credit of the royal caufe; and 
in the year 1646 he formed a regiment for the iervice of 
the French king, was colonel of it, and wounded at Dun¬ 
kirk. In 1648 he returned to England with his brother, 
and was again committed prifoner to Peter-houie in Lon¬ 
don, where he remained until after the king’s death. At 
that period he was let at liberty ; but, (fays Wood,) “ hav¬ 
ing then conlumed all his eftate, he grew very melancholy, 
(which at length brought him into a confumption,) be¬ 
came very poor in body and purfe, was the object of cha¬ 
rity, went in ragged clothes, (whereas when he was in his 
glory he wore cloth of gold and filver,) and moftiy lodged 
in obfcure and dirty olaces, more befitting the worft of 
beggars than pooreft of fervants. He died in a very mean 
lodging in Gunpowder-alley, near Shoe-lane, in 1658, and 
was buried at the weft end of St. Bride’s church.” He 
wrote two’plays, neither of which has been printed, viz. 
1. The Scholar, a comedy a (fled at Gloucefter-hall and Sa- 
lifbiiry-court. 2. The Soldier, a tragedy. 3. Lucafta, a 
collection of poems. 
Surely Wood has aggravated the poverty of Lovelace ; 
for his daughter and iole heir, Margaret, married Henry, 
fifth Ion of lord chief juftice Coke, and carried to her huf- 
band the eftates of her father at Kingfdown in Kent. In 
pOlfeflion of thefe,it is highly improbable tiiat he lhould die 
poor and in rags, in a mean lodging, as Wood deferibes. 
LOV'ELACE, a village in the parifh of Betherlden, 
Dorfet. 
LOV'ELESS, adj. Void of affection, deflitute of love. 
LOYE'EILy, adv. Amiably; in luch a manner as to 
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excite love.—Thou look’ft lovelily dreadful. Otway's Venice 
Prtferv'd. 
LOV ELINESS, f. Amiablenefk; qualities of mind or 
body that excite love.—If there is fuch a native Imelinefs 
in the fex as to make them victorious when in the wrong, 
how refiltlefs is their power when they are on the fide of 
truth ? Addifon. 
When I approach 
Her lovelinefs, fo abfolutefhe feems. 
That what (he wills to do, or fay, 
Seems wifeft, virtuouleft, difereeteft, belt. Milton. 
LOV'ELL, a town of America, in York county, Maine, 
north of Great Offipee : eighty-nine miles north of York. 
LOV'ELL, a village in the parifli of Weft Knighton, 
Dorlet. 
LOV'ELL’s CROS'S and HE'ATH, north-eaft of Hor- 
fham, in SufTex, on the borders of Surrey. 
LOV'ELSTON, a village in the parifh of Hevrifh, Devon. 
LOV'ELY, adj. Amiable ; exciting love.—Saul and 
Jonathan were lovely and pleafant in their lives, and in their 
death they were not divided. 2 Samuel .— The Chriftian re- 
ligion gives us a more lovely character of God than any 
religion ever did. Tillotfon. 
The flowers which it had prefs’d 
Appeared to my view 
More frefh and lovely than the reft 
That in the meadows grew. Denham. 
LOVENTLNUM, or Luenti'num, in ancient geogra¬ 
phy, a town of the Demetse, in Britain ; fuppofed by fome, 
without fufficient reafen, to have been fwallowed up by an 
earthquake in the fite of the prefent Llyn Savanathan, 
near Brecknock; but by others, with great probability, to 
have been lituated at or near Llan-Dewi-Brevi, in Cardi- 
ganfhire; where, in a field called Caer-Ceftlib, or Caftle- 
field, Roman coins and bricks are (ornetines found. 
LOV'ENTOR, a village in Devonfhire, in the parifh 
of Berry Pomeroy. 
LOV'ER, f. One who is in love : 
Love is blind, and lovers cannot fee 
The pretty follies that themfelves commit. Shakefpeare. 
A friend; one who regards with kindnefs.—Your brother 
and his lover have embrac’d. Shakefpeare, 
I tell thee, fellow, 
Thy general is my lover: I have been 
The book of his good aCt, whence men have read 
His fame unparallel’d haply amplified. Shakefpeare. 
One who likes any thing.—To be good and gracious, and 
a lover of knowledge, are amiable things. Burnet. 
LOV'ER, or Lou'vER.yi [from I'ouvert, Fr. an open¬ 
ing.) An opening for the lmoke to go out at in the roof 
of a cottage: 
Bit darknefle died and daily night did hover 
Through all the inner part wherein they dwelt; 
Ne lighten’d was with window, nor with lover ; 
But with continuall candle-light, which delt 
A doubtful fenfe of things. Fairy Queen. 
LOVERA'NO, a town of Naples, in the province of 
Otranto •. five miles north-north-eaft of Nardo. 
LOVESKA'IA, a town of Ruffia, on the Cafpian Sea : 
twenty-feven riiiles fouth eaft of Aftrachan. 
LOV'ESOME, adj. Lovely. A word not ufed: 
Nothing new can fpring 
Without thy warmth, without thy influence bear. 
Or beautiful or lovefome can appear. Drydcn. 
LO'VESTEIN, or Lou'vestein, a fortrefs of Holland, 
fituated in the ifland of Bomrnelweert, at the conflux of 
the Meufe and the Wahal. Hugo Grotius was confined 
here, in 1619,011 a fentence of perpetual imprilonment, 
for having been connected with Barneveldr, who had been 
beheaded 
