Lovers

( Romantic ). The favorites of distinguished men: Aristotle and Hepyllis. Boccaccio and Fiammetta [ Maria , daughter of Robert of Naples]. Burns and Highland Mary [either Mary Campbell or Mary Robinson ]. Byron and Teresa [Guiccioli]. Catullus and the Lady Clodia, called “Lesbia.” Charles II. of England and Barbara Villiers [duche of Cleveland]; Louise Renée de Kerouaille [duche of Portsmouth]; and Nell Gwynne. Charles VII. of France and Agnes Sorel. Cid ( The ) and the fair Ximēna, afterwards his wife. Dante and Be at rice [Portinari]. Epicurus and Leontium. Franco is I. and la duche e d’Etampes [ Mdlle. d’Heilly ]. George I. and the duche of Kendal [ Erangard Melrose de Schulemberg ]. George II. and Mary Howard, duche of Suffolk. George III. and the fair quakere [ Hannah Light foot ]. George IV. and Mrs. Mary Darby Robinson, called “Perdĭta” (1758-1800); Mrs. Fitzherbert, to whom he was privately married in 1785; and the counte of Jersey. Goethe and the frau von Stein. Habington , the poet, and Castāra [ Lucy Herbert , daughter of Lord Powis], afterwards his wife. Hazlitt and Sarah Walker. Henri II. and Diane de Poitiers. Henri IV. and La Belle Gabrielle [d’Estrées]. Henry II. and the fair Rosamond [ Jane Clifford ]. Horace and Lesbia. Heloise and Abelard. Lamartine and Elvire, the Creole Girl. Louis XIV. and Mdlle. de la Vallière; Mde. de Monte span; Mdlle. de Fontage. Love lace and the divine Althēa, also called Lucasta [ Sacheverell ]. Mirabeau and Mde. Nehra. Nelson and Lady Hamilton. Pericles and Aspasia. Petrarch and Laura [ wife of Hugues de Sade ]. Plato and Arch i an a a. Prior and Chloe, or Cloe, the cobbler’s wife of Linden Grove. Raphael and La Fornarina, the baker’s daughter. Rou eau and Julie [ la comte e d’Houdetot ]. Scarron and Mde. Main ten on, afterwards his wife. Sidney and Stella [ Penelope Devereux ]. Spenser and Rosalind [ Rose Lynde , of Kent]. Sterne (in his old age) and Eliza [ Mrs. Draper ]. Stesechoros and Himĕra. Surrey ( Henry Howard , earl of ) and Geraldine, who married the earl of Lincoln. (See Geraldine ). Swift and (1) Stella [ Hester Johnson ]; (2) Vane a [ Esther Van Vanhomrigh ]. Ta o and Leonora, or Eleanora [d’Este]. Theocritos and Myrto. Waller and Sac hari a [ Lady Dorothea Sidney ]. William IV. , as duke of Clarence, and Mrs. Jordan [ Dora Bland ]. Wolsey and Mistre Winter. Wyat and Anna [ Anne Boleyn ], purely platonic.