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Lazy Lawrence of Lubberland
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 Parents' Assistant, is called Lazy Lawrence.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Lazy Lawrence of Lubberland from Infoplease:
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