Mrs. Mattocks (1745-1826) was the first “Louisa.”
Louisa, daughter of Russet, bailiff to the duchess. She was engaged to Henry, a private in the king’s army. Hearing a rumor of gallantry to the disadvantage of her lover, she consented to put his love to the test by pretending that she was about to marry Simkin. When Henry heard thereof, he gave himself up as a deserter, and was condemned to death. Louisa then went to the king to explain the whole matter, and returned with the young man’s pardon just as the muffled drums began the death march.—Dibdin, The Deserter (1770).
Louise, (2 syl.), the glee-maiden.—Sir W. Scott, Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.).
Louise [de Lascours], wife of Ralph, captain of the Uran´ia, and mother of Martha (afterwards called Orgari´ta). Louise de Lascours sailed with her infant daughter and her husband in the Urania. Louise and the captain were drowned by the breaking up of an iceberg; but Martha was rescued by some wild Indians, who brought her up, and called her name Orgarita (“withered wheat”).—E. Stirling, Orphan of the Frozen Sea (1856).
Louisiana (Rogers). Pretty, untrained daughter of a plain planter. A city woman takes a fancy to try an experiment upon her, invites her to visit her at the Springs, coaches her in etiquette and conceals her name and origin. Louisiana confides the result to the father of whom she has been ashamed:
“I was not bad quite enough to see them cast a slight on you.... I told them the truth—that you were my father, and that I loved you and was proud of you—that I might be ashamed of myself and all the rest, but not of you—never of you—for I wasn’t worthy to kiss your feet!”—Frances Hodgson Burnett, Louisiana (1889).
Loupgarou, leader of the army of giants in alliance with the Dipsodes (2 syl.). As he threatened to make mincemeat of Pantag´ruel, the prince gave him a kick which overthrew him, then, lifting him up by his ankles, he used him a quarter-staff. Having killed all the giants in the hostile army, Pantagruel flung the body of Loupgarou on the ground, and by so doing crushed a tom-cat, a tabby, a duck, and a brindled goose.—Rabelais, Pantagruel, ii. 29 (1533).
Louponheight (The young laird of), at the ball at Middlemas.—Sir W. Scott, The Surgeon’s Daughter (time, George II.).
Lourdis, an idiotic scholar of Sorbonne.
De la Sorbonne un Docteur amoureux