A precipice on the Guadalhorce (4 syl.), from which Manuel and Laila cast themselves, is also called “The Lovers’ Leap.” (See Laila).
Lovers’ Vows, altered from Kotzebue’s drama, by Mrs. Inchbald (1800). Baron Wildenhaim, in his youth, seduced Agatha Friburg, and then forsook her. She had a son, Frederick, who in due time became a soldier. While on furlough, he came to spend his time with his mother, and found her reduced to abject poverty, and almost starved to death. A poor cottager took her in, while Frederick, who had no money, went to beg charity. Count Wildenhaim was out with his gun, and Frederick asked alms of him. The count gave him a shilling; Frederick demanded more, and being refused, seized the baron by the throat. The keepers soon came up, collared him, and put him in the castle dungeon. Here he was visited by the chaplain, and it came out that the count was his father. The chaplain being appealed to, told the count the only reparation he could make would be to marry Agatha, and acknowledge the young soldier to be his son. The advice he followed, and Agatha Friburg, the beggar, became the Baroness Wildenhaim, of Wildenhaim Castle.
Love´rule (Sir John), a very pleasant gentleman, but wholly incapable of ruling his wife, who led him a miserable dance.
Lady Loverule, a violent termagant, who beat her servants, scolded her husband, and kept her house in constant hot water, but was reformed by Zakel Jobson, the cobbler. (See Devil to Pay).—C. Coffey, The Devil to Pay (died 1745).
Love´well, the husband of Fanny Sterling, to whom he has been clandestinely married for four months.—Colman and Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage (1766).
Loving-Land, a place where Neptune held his “nymphall,” or feast given to the sea-nymphs.
[He] his Tritons made proclaim, a nymphall to be held
In honor of himself in Loving-land, where he
The most selected nymphs appointed had to be.
Drayton, Polyolbion, xx. (1622).