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  in 1808).  ‘The Love of Gain’ (imitated from Juvenal's 13th satire), 1799.  ‘The East Indian,’ a comedy, 1799 (written at sixteen (see his letters), then accepted by Mrs. Jordan, and played for her benefit, and afterwards for Mrs. Powell's, in 1799; also at Drury Lane on 24 April 1799. It afterwards appeared as ‘Rich and Poor,’ a comic opera, at Covent Garden in 1812, and at Drury Lane on 23 June 1813).  ‘Adelmorn, or the Outlaw,’ romantic drama, 1800 (music by Michael Kelly; acted at Drury Lane on 4 May 1801).  ‘Alphonso, King of Castile,’ tragedy, 1801; played at Covent Garden on 15 Jan. 1802.  ‘Tales of Wonder,’ 1801. (The first volume is chiefly by Scott, Southey, and Lewis himself; the second reprints many familiar poems.)  ‘The Bravo of Venice,’ a romance translated from the German, 1804; dramatised as ‘Rugantino,’ a melodrama, 1805, at Covent Garden in 1805.  ‘Adelgitha,’ a tragedy, acted at Drury Lane on 30 April 1807.  ‘Feudal Tyrants,’ a romance, translated from the German, 1807.  ‘Romantic Tales,’ 1808 (many from the French and German).  ‘Venoni, or the Novice of St. Mark's,’ tragedy (from ‘Les Victimes Cloîtrées’); acted at Drury Lane on 1 Dec. 1808. On a later performance (16 Feb. 1809) a ‘Monody on the Death of Sir John Moore,’ 1809, was spoken by one of the actors, and suppressed after three days by the lord chamberlain. It is given in ‘Life’ (i. 378–80).  ‘One o'Clock, a musical romance,’ 1811 (altered from the ‘Wood Demon,’ acted, but only songs printed, in 1807, at Covent Garden).  ‘Timour the Tartar,’ melodrama, 1812 (acted at Covent Garden on 29 April 1811; written to satisfy the manager's wish for a ‘spectacle’ with horses to rival ‘Bluebeard’ at Drury Lane, in which horses had appeared for the first time).  ‘Poems,’ 1812.  ‘Journal of a West Indian Proprietor,’ 1834. A ‘monodrama’ called ‘The Captive,’ being the ravings of a lunatic, which was recited by Mrs. Litchfield at Covent Garden in 1803, but failed because it sent the audience ‘into fits,’ is printed in ‘Life’ (i. 236–41). It may be read with impunity.</ol>

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<section begin="Lewis Morganwg"/>LEWIS, i.e. of Glamorganshire (fl. 1500–1540), Welsh bard, was the son of another bard named Rhys Llwyd ab Rhys ab Rhicert (fl. 1450–1490), otherwise known as the Old Grey Bard of Glamorgan, who lived at Blaen Cynllan in that county. The son Lewis presided at the Session or Gorsedd of Glamorgan Bards in 1520. A poem written by him on St. Iltutus [see ], entitled ‘Cowydd St. Illtyd,’ is printed with an English translation in the Iolo MSS., and several of his compositions are still preserved among the Addit. MSS. in the British Museum (Nos. 14866, &c.). He is also said to have written a history of the three provinces of Wales, but nothing is now known of this work.

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<section begin="Lewis, Owen"/>LEWIS, OWEN, also known as (1532–1594), bishop of Cassano, born on 28 Dec. 1532 in the hamlet of Bodeon, Llangadwaladr, Anglesey, was the son of a freeholder. He became a scholar of Winchester College in 1547, and a perpetual fellow of New College, Oxford, in 1554, and was admitted to the degree of B.C.L. 21 Feb. 1558–9 (, Winchester Scholars, p. 127; Oxford Univ. Reg. ed. Boase, i. 239). Being opposed to the innovations in religion, he left the university about 1561 and proceeded to Douay, where he completed his degrees both in law and divinity, and was appointed regius professor of law. He was also made a canon of the rich cathedral of Cambray, official of the chapter, and archdeacon of Hainault. A lawsuit in which the chapter of Cambrai was involved occasioned his going to Rome, where his learning and judgment were highly appreciated. Both Sixtus V and Gregory XIII made him referendary of both signatures, and secretary to the several congregations and consultations concerning the clergy and regulars. Cardinal Charles Borromeo, archbishop of Milan, appointed Lewis one of the vicars-general of his diocese, at the same time taking him into his family. Lewis was thus an eye-witness of the edifying life of the saint, who not long afterwards died in his arms.

By the joint consent of Sixtus V and Philip II, king of Spain, he was promoted to the bishopric of Cassano, in the kingdom of Naples, and was consecrated at Rome 3 Feb. (N.S.) 1587–8. At the time of the Spanish Armada his friends wished him to be made archbishop of York in the event of the enterprise succeeding, but Allen disapproved the suggestion; and he was also proposed for the bishopric of St. Davids, or Hereford, or<section end="Lewis, Owen"/>