...imperial votaress pass'd on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, — Before,...sleeping eyelids laid, Will make or man or woman madly dot Upon the next live creature that it sees. Fetch me this herb : and be thou here again, Ere the...

...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,...madly dote 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...

...imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : , Fetch me this herb ; and be thou here again, Ere the leviathan can swim a league. Puck. I'll put a...

...vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free * : Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, — Before,...madly dote 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...

...imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : I m=% l=% D?% Fetch me this herb ; and be thou here again, Ere the leviathan can swim a league. Puck. I'll put a...

...by Shakspere, and woven into his inimitable " Midsummer Night's Dream," wherein lie tells us how " The juice of it, on sleeping eyelids laid, Will make,...madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees." And who that has once read, can ever forget the pleasing confusion it makes amongst the lovers in the...

...moulded on one stem ;" and of his graceful homage to Queen Bess, " Marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell, It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white,...love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness." And the two brave sons of Cymbeline singing requiem for Imogene, " Thou shall not lack The flower that's...

...Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, — Before, milk-white ; now purple with love'» wound, — And maidens call it, love-in-idleness....madly dote 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...

...imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : as i Fetch me this herb : and be thou here again, Ere the Leviathan can swim a league. Puck. I'll put a...

...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...