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

...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 upon a little western flower, — Before, milk-white; now purple with love's wound, — And maidens call it, love-in-idleness....

...rirtucs in the person of Obcron king of the fairies, in the Midsummer Night's Dream. Act 2. Sc. 2. 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....

...aspiring to marry a Queen, by the image of a star shooting or descending from its sphere." STEEVENS, 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...

...us. [Ecce calent illce, fi?.] This metamorphosis reminds me of one something like it, in Shakespeare: Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flow'r, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound. And maidens call it love in idleness....

...in corn fields. Their change to purple is beautifully alluded to by the poet: : •• Yet marft'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell ; " It fell upon a little western flower, Stain'd by the bolt of love her purple breast, And " freak'd with jet" her party-colour'd...

...chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the 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, milk-white, — now purple with love's wound,—- And maidens call it Love-in-idleness....

...reading to his cousins : — " 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." " Not love, my children," cried the venerable instructor ; " love was bestowed by heaven...

...again celebrated by Shakspeare, in the ' Midsummer Night's Dream.' Oberon says to Puck : — Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell : — It fell upon a little western flower, — Before, milk-white, — npw purple with love's wound, — And maidens call 'It...

...once paused on the page of Shakespeare, which his nephew was reading to his cousins: — " 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."...