Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Lycidas

The name under which Milton celebrates the untimely death of Edward King, Fellow of Christ College, Cambridge, who was drowned in his passage from Chester to Ireland, August 10th, 1637. He was the son of Sir John King, Secretary for Ireland.

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