Campbell, Lochiel’s Warning,
And Cameron, in the shock of steel,
Die like the offspring of Lochiel.
Sir W. Scott, Field of Waterloo.
Lochinvar´, a young Highlander, in love with a lady at Netherby Hall (condemned to marry a “laggard in love and a dastard in war”). Her young chevalier induced the too-willing lassie to be his partner in a dance; and while the guests were intent on their amusements, swung her into his saddle and made off with her before the bridegroom could recover from his amazement.—Sir W. Scott, Marmion (1808).
Lochleven (The Lady of), mother of the Regent Murray.—Sir W. Scott, The Abbot (time, Elizabeth).
Lockit, the jailer in Gay’s Beggar’s Opera. He was an inhuman brute, who refused to allow Captain Macheath any more candles in his cell, and threatened to clap on extra fetters, unless he supplied him with more “garnish” (jail fees). Lockit loaded his prisoners with fetters in inverse proportion to the fees which they paid, ranging “from one guinea to ten.” (See Lucy.)—J. Gay, The Beggar’s Opera (1727).
The quarrel between Peachum and Lockit was an allusion to a personal collision between Walpole and his colleague, Lord Townsend.—R. Chambers, English Literature, i. 571.
Locksley, alias “Robin Hood,” an archer at the tournament (ch. xiii.). Said to have been the name of the village where the outlaw was born.—Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).
Locksley Hall, a poem by Tennyson, in which the hero, the Lord of Locksley Hall, having been jilted by his Cousin Amy for a rich boor, pours forth his feelings in a flood of vehement scorn and indignation. In his old age Tennyson took up the theme again, and wrote Locksley Hall Sixty Years After.