or Larrence.—An incarnation of laziness. See quot.
1655. PRIDEAUX, Readings in History [Notes and Queries, 7, S. ii. 212]. St. Lawrence suffered martyrdom about the middle of the third century, 250 to 260 A.C. … A traditional tale has been handed down from age to age that at his execution he bore his torments without a writhe or groan, which caused some of those standing by to remark, ‘How great must be his faith!’ But his pagan executioner said, ‘It is not his faith but his idleness; he is too LAZY to turn himself.’
