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" 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 Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse - Page 111
by Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 157 pages
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The Dramatic Works and Poems, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 578 pages
...wound, And maidens catl it, love-in-idleness.51 Felch me ihat flower : the herb I ehow'd theeonce : The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid, Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon ihr next live creature ihat it sees. Ketch me this herb: and be thou here again, К re the leviathan...
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Sketch of the life of Shakespeare. Tempest. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Merry ...

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...love'» wound, — And maidens call it, love-in-idleness. Fetch me that flower ; the herb I show'd thee once ; The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid,...Upon the next live creature that it sees. Fetch me thi« herb : and be thou here again, Ere the leviathan can swim a league. Puck. I'll put a girdle round...
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The heroines of Shakspeare, comprising the principal female characters in ...

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 270 pages
...earth, In forty minutes," to fetch a flower, the juice of which, if squeezed in the eye of a sleeper — "Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees." TITANIA goes to sleep, and OBERON squeezes the juice of the flower in her eyelids. He also sends PUCK...
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The Language of Flowers: With Illustrative Poetry; to which are Now Added ...

Frederic Shoberl - Flower language - 1848 - 414 pages
...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 doat Upon the next live creature that it sees. SHiKSPEiEK. In the year 1815, this flower furnished...
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The Dramatic Works of W. Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pages
...with love's wound — And maidens call it love-in-idleness. Fetch me that flower ; the herb I show'd { / this herb : and be thou here again, Ere the Leviathan can swim a league. Puck. I'll put a girdle round...
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Hogg's Instructor, Volumes 3-4

English literature - 1849 - 896 pages
...Love-in-idlauu.' He gives to it likewise, in the same exquisite passage, a most potent and dangerous quality — ' The juice of It on sleeping eyelids laid Will make...madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees.' We cannot here pause to enumerate the various names by which this flower has been called, nor attempt...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 105

Questions and answers - 1902 - 664 pages
...some of it on the closed eyelids of Titania : — The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make a man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees. With the old herbalists the pansy was used to "conglutínate blood" for falling sickness and other...
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 586 pages
...with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.3 Fetch me that flower ; the herb I showed thee once ; The juice of it, on sleeping eyelids laid,...Upon the next live creature that it sees. Fetch me this herb ; and be thou here again, Ere the leviathan can swim a league. Puck. I'll put a girdle round...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Midsummer night's dream. Love's ...

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 556 pages
...with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.3 Fetch me that flower ; the herb I showed thee once ; The juice of it, on sleeping eyelids laid....Upon the next live creature that it sees. Fetch me this herb ; and be thou here again, Ere the leviathan can swim a league. Puck. Pll put a girdle round...
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The Cottage Gardener: A Practical Guide in every department of horticulture ...

George W. Johnson - 1850 - 434 pages
...wound,— And maidens call it Love-in-idleness. The juice of it on sleeping eye-lid* laid, Will make a man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees." A superstition that gives a clue to this name, populai oven now in some parts of England. Cull-we-to-you...
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