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" Fetch me that flower ; the herb I show'd thee once : The juice of it, on sleeping eye-lids laid, Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees. "
Shakespeariana - Page 543
1886
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The Comedy of A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare - 1600 - 98 pages
...Cupid's fiery shaft * ..'.• Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd...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 shcw'd...
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Cottage Gardener and Country Gentleman's Companion, Volume 3

Gardening - 1850 - 376 pages
...blaspheme by authority, without danger of having their tongue "bored through with an hot iron." Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little...Western flower,— Before, milk-white. — now purple with Lovt's wound, And maidens call It Looe-in-idleness. Midsummer Night'» Dream, act 3, scene 2....
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 556 pages
...thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden...western flower, — Before, milk-white; now purple with love's wound, — [IDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREA The juice of it, on sleeping eye-lids laid, Will make...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 pages
...beams of the wat'ry moon ; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy- free.9 Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell...western flower, — Before, milk-white ; now purple with love's wound, — And maidens call it, love-in-idleness.1 Shakspeare's compliment to Queen Elizabeth...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 518 pages
...chaste beams of the wat'ry moon; And the imperial vo tress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.8 Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell...western flower, — Before, milk-white ; now purple with love's wound,— And maidens call it, love-in-idleness. 7 At a fair vestal, throned by the west;]...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 410 pages
...chaste beams of the wat'ry moon; And the imperial votress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. 8 Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell...western flower,— Before, milk-white; now purple with love's wound,— And maidens call it, love-in-idleness. 7 At a fair vestal, throned by the west;]...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 392 pages
...chaste beams of the wat'ry moon; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.9 Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell...western flower, — Before, milk-white ; now purple with love's wound,— And maidens call it, love-in-idleness.1 Shakspeare's compliment to Queen Elizabeth...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 472 pages
...in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon ; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden-meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:...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 show'd...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...shooting or descending from its sphere/* STEEVENS. [i] i- e. exempt from the power of love, STEEVENS. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell...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 show'd...
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The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary ..., Volume 1

Anna Seward - Poets, English - 1810 - 416 pages
...will employ ourselves from morn to midnight, and the idea of Mr L. shall ' quickly fade away : " For mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell, " It fell upon...little western flower, " Before milk-white, now purple with Love's wound, '' And maidens call it love in idleness." Adieu ! adieu! LICHFJELD, JAN. 1763. THERE...
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