CUPID

Related Subjects: Courtship, Gods and Goddesses, Love, Mythology, Valentine

1. Archer's ever
   Have two strings to a bow; and shall great Cupid
   (Archer of archers both in men and women),
   Be worse provided than a common archer?—GEORGE CHAPMAN, Bussy d'Ambois
   

2. The frivolous bolt of Cupid.—MILTON, Comus
   

3. It may be said of him that Cupid hath clapped him o' the shoulder.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
   

4. This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
   Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
   The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
   Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
   

5. Cupid is a knavish lad,
   Thus to make poor females mad.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
   

6. Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim
   When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
   

7. Sweet, rouse yourself; and the weak wanton Cupid
   Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold,
   And, like a dewdrop from the lion's mane,
   Be shook to air.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida