Lodowick, the name assumed by the duke of Vienna, when he retired for a while from State affairs, and dressed as a friar, to watch the carrying out of a law recently enforced against prostitution.—Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603).
Loe´gria (4 syl.), England, the kingdom of Logris or Locrine, eldest son of Brute, the mythical king of Britain.
Thus Cambria [Wales] to her right that would herself restore,
And rather than to lose Loëgria, looks for more.
M. Drayton, Polyolbion, iv. (1612).
Il est écrit qu’il est une heure
Où tout le royaume de Logres,
Qui jadis fut la terre ès ogres
Sera détruit par cette lance.
Chrétien de Troyes, Parzival (1170).