A fit of idleness. Lurden means a block-head. (French, lourd, heavy, dull, thick headed; lourdand, a blockhead.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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