 | William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pages
...maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western 6 / love-in-idleness. Fetch me that flower ; the herb I show'd thee once : The juice of it on sleeping... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Stanley W. Wells - Drama - 1967 - 180 pages
...maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before, milk-white; now purple with love's wound: And maidens call it 'love in idleness'. Fetch me that flower - the herb I showed thee once. The juice of it on sleeping eyelids... | |
 | Marion Ansel Taylor - Drama - 1973 - 260 pages
...fancyfree. /" "The bolt of Cupid fell," however, "upon a little Western Flower / [the Countess of Essex] Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, / And maidens call it love in idleness, / [irregular love that has power only when people are idle, or not well employed]", 22. Ibid.,... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness. [II.i. 155-68] Modern scholars have noted the compliment to the Virgin Queen here... | |
 | Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers - History - 1986 - 464 pages
...maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound: And maidens call it 'love-in-idleness'. (2.1.156-68) The resonant monologues of Titania and Oberon are carefully matched... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before, milk-white; now purple with love's wound: And maidens call it 'love in idleness'. Fetch me that flower - the herb I showed thee once. 170 The juice of it on sleeping eyelids... | |
 | Courtship - 1995 - 108 pages
...throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow. It fell upon a little western flower, Before, milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it "love-in-idleness." Fetch me that flower, the herb I showed thee once. The juice of it on sleeping... | |
 | Louis Montrose - Drama - 1996 - 246 pages
...maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound: And maidens call it 'love-in-idleness'. The juice of it, on sleeping eyelids laid, Will make or man or woman madly dote... | |
 | Jeanne Rose - Health & Fitness - 1996 - 372 pages
...synergistic blend as well! Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell, It fell upon a little Western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound: And maidens call it "love-in-idleness " Fetch me that flower; the herb I showed thee once. The juice of it on sleeping... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...maiden meditation, fancy-free, Yet markt I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western y cloak, Sir Thomas. — Brothers both, Commend me to the princes in our cam love-in-idleness. Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once: The juice of it on sleeping eyelids... | |
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Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, — Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, — And maidens call it love-in-idleness. 
