Swift and (1) Stella [Hester Johnson]; (2) Vanessa [Esther Van Vanhomrigh].
Tasso and Leonora, or Eleanora [d’Este].
Theocritos and Myrto.
Waller and Sacharissa [Lady Dorothea Sidney].
William IV., as duke of Clarence, and Mrs. Jordan [Dora Bland].
Wolsey and Mistress Winter.
Wyat and Anna [Anne Boleyn], purely platonic.
Lovers Struck by Lightning, John Hewit and Sarah Drew of Stanton Harcourt, near Oxford (July 31, 1718). Gay gives a full description of the incident in one of his letters. On the morning that they obtained the consent of their parents to the match, they went together into a field to gather wild flowers, when a thunderstorm overtook them and both were killed. Pope wrote their epitaph.
⁂ Probably Thomson had this incident in view in his tale of Celadon and Amelia.—See Seasons (“Summer,” 1727).
Lovers’ Leap. The leap from the Leuca´dian promontory into the sea. This promontory is in the island of Leucas or Leucadia, in the Ionian Sea. Sappho threw herself therefrom when she found her love for Phaon was not requited.