The fatal brand Althaea burned.
Shakespeare, 2
Henry VI
. act i. sc. 1 (1591).
Althe'a (The divine), of Richard Lovelace, was Lucy Saeheverell, also called by the poet, Lucasta.
When love with unconfinèd wings
Hovers within my gates,
And my divine Althea brings
To whisper at my grates.
(The "grates" here referred to were those of a prison in which Lovelace was confined by the Long Parliament, for his petition from Kent in favor of the king.)