Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Locksley Hall

Tennyson has a poem so called. The lord of Locksley Hall fell in love with his cousin Amy, but Amy married a rich clown. The lord of Locksley Hall, indignant at this, declares he will marry a savage; but, on reflection, adds: “Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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