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Lazy Lawrence of Lubberland

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The hero of a popular tale. He served the schoolmaster, the squire’s cook, the farmer, and his own wife, which was accounted high treason in Lubberland. One of Miss Edgeworth’s tales, in the Parentsʹ Assistant, is called Lazy Lawrence.

 

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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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Lay of the Last Minstrel
Lay to One’s Charge (To)
Layamon
Layers-over for Meddlers
Lazar House or Lazaretto
Lazarists
Lazarillo de Tormës (1553)
Lazarone
Lazarus
Lazy
Lazy Lawrence of Lubberland
Lazy Lobkin (A)
Lazy Man’s Load
Lazyland (Gone to)
Lazzaroni
LÉtat cest Moi (I am the State)
Le Roi le Veut (French, The king wills it.)
Lea
Leaba na Feine [Beds of the Feïne]
Leach, Leachcraft
Lead (pronounced led)