Miss Fenton (duchess of Bolton) was the original “Lucy Lockit” (1708-1760).
Lucy and Colin. Colin was betrothed to Lucy, but forsook her for a bride “thrice as rich as she.” Lucy drooped, but was present at the wedding; and when Colin saw her, “the damps of death bedewed his brow, and he died.” Both were buried in one tomb, and many a hind and plighted maid resorted thither, “to deck it with garlands and true love knots.”—T. Tickell, Lucy and Colin.
⁂ Vincent Bourne has translated this ballad into Latin verse.
Through all Tickell’s works there is a strain of ballad thinking.... In this ballad [Lucy and Colin], he seems to have surpassed himself. It is, perhaps, the best in our language.—Goldsmith, Beauties of English Poetry (1767).
Lucyl´ius (B.C. 148-103), the father of Roman satire.
I have presumed, my lord, for to present
With this poor Glasse, which is of trustie Steele [satire],
And came to me by wil and testament
Of one that was a Glassmaker [satirist] indeede:
Lucylius, this worthy man was namde.