=LAMENNAIS, FÉLICITÉ ROBERT DE.= _b._ 1782, _d._ 1854. =French theologian and journalist.=
ESSAY ON INDIFFERENCE TO RELIGION. 4 v. (1817-23.) _Tr._ Lord Stanley of A., 1895.
MODERN SLAVERY. _Tr._ W. J. Linton, 1840.
THE BOOK OF THE PEOPLE. _Tr._ J. H. Lorymer, 1838.
=THE LAMENT OF DEOR=, or, =The Minstrel's Consolation=. _Ed. Tr._ from Cook and Tinker's Select _Tr._ from English Poetry, 1902.
=LANCELOT OF THE LAIK.= _Cir._ 1500. _Ed._ Prf. W. W. Skeat, E.E.T.S., 1865.
_See also_ Weston, J. L. Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac. Studies upon its Origin, Development and Position in the Arthurian Cycle, 1901.
_Ed._ F. J. Furnival--_in his_ Early English Poems and Lives of Saints, 1862.
A satire on the corruptions of the Condt, painting a 'Land of the Kitchen', a fool's paradise.
BOOK OF PIERS PLOWMAN, 1362-1377. _Ed._ Skeat, in its three forms. E.E.T.S. 1867-69-73.
RICHARD THE REDELESS. _Ed._ Skeat. E.E.T.S., 1873.
'The Vision of Piers Plowman' is a satire directed against the vices of the Clergy and other professions.
=LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, FRANÇOIS, DUC DE.= _b._ 1613, _d._ 1680. =French maxim-writer.=
MORAL MAXIMS AND REFLECTIONS (1665) ... now made English, 1694.
=LASCO DE LA VEGA=, _See_ =Garcilasco de la Vega=, _Surnamed_ '=The Inca='.
=LA TOUR LANDRY.= _Ab._ 1440. _Ed._ T. Wright. 1868.
=LAWS OF INE= (=King of West Saxons, 688-726=).
THE EARLIEST LAWS OF WESSEX. Reissued by King Alfred. _Ed._, B. Thorpe, 'Ancient Laws and Institutes of England', text and _tr._, 1840.
LAYAMON'S BRUT, OR CHRONICLE OF BRITAIN: a poetical semi-Saxon paraphrase of the Brut of Wace. [With a tr.] _Ed._ by F. Madden, 3 v., 1847.
This work is important as the principal literary monument in the English language of that period.
The poet 'thrummed' three books into one in his work, namely, Wace's 'Geste des Bretons' (1155), his chief source, Baeda's work in his own Latin, and Alfred's translation of the same. The author has the distinction of being the first to commemorate King Arthur in English verse.
THE PLEASAUNT HISTORIE OF LAZARILLO DE TORMES, A SPANIARDE ... draune out of Spanish by David Rowland ... 1586.
'This little work may be thought by some of a low and trifling nature: but it is the first of a race of comic romances. For wit, spirit and inexhaustible resources ... there is nothing like the Spanish rogue'.