All 9 Uses of
Cupid
in
Much Ado About Nothing
- He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged him at the bird-bolt.†
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- He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged him at the bird-bolt.†
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- But speak you this with a sad brow, or do you play the flouting Jack, to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder, and Vulcan a rare carpenter?†
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- With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord; not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind Cupid.†
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- Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.†
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- If we can do this, Cupid is no longer an archer: his glory shall be ours, for we are the only love-gods.†
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- My talk to thee must be how Benedick Is sick in love with Beatrice: of this matter Is little Cupid's crafty arrow made, That only wounds by hearsay.†
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- If it prove so, then loving goes by haps: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.†
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- he hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's bowstring,
Scene 3.2 *Cupid = Roman mythology: god of love
Definition:
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(Cupid) Roman mythology: god of love; a small, winged boy whose arrows make those struck fall in love