All 10 Uses of
Cupid
in
Love's Labour's Lost
- I think scorn to sigh: methinks I should out-swear Cupid.†
Scene 1.2Cupid = Roman mythology: god of love
- Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' club, and therefore too much odds for a Spaniard's rapier.†
Scene 1.2
- He is Cupid's grandfather, and learns news of him.†
Scene 2.1
- This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rimes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents, Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces, Sole imperator, and great general Of trotting 'paritors: O my little heart!†
Scene 3.1
- Go to; it is a plague That Cupid will impose for my neglect Of his almighty dreadful little might.†
Scene 3.1
- Proceed, sweet Cupid;
Scene 4.3 *
- rimes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose: Disfigure not his slop.†
Scene 4.3
- Saint Cupid, then!†
Scene 4.3
- Yes, as much love in rime As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper Writ o' both sides the leaf, margent and all, That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name.†
Scene 5.2
- Saint Denis to Saint Cupid!†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(Cupid) Roman mythology: god of love; a small, winged boy whose arrows make those struck fall in love
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In earlier Greek mythology, Cupid was strikingly handsome.