CXXUL.

Lazy Lawrence, let me go,
Don’t hold me summer and winter too.

[This distich is said by a boy who feels very lazy, yet wishes to exert himself. Lazy
Lawrence is a proverbial expression for an idle person, and there is an old chap-
book, entitled ‘‘the History of Lawrence Lazy, containing his birth and slothful
breeding ; how he served the schoolrnaster, his wife, the squire’s cook, and the farmer,
which, by the laws of Lubberland, was accounted high treason.” A west country
proverb, relating to a disciple of this hero, runs thus:

Sluggardy guise,
Loth to go to bed,
And loth to rise.]

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