PANSY

*Love-in-idleness*Cupid’s Flower*

OPHELIA

There is PANSIES—that’s for thoughts.

—Hamlet [Act IV, sc. 5]

LUCENTIO

But see, while idly I stood looking on,

I found the effect of LOVE-IN-IDLENESS.

—Taming of the Shrew [Act I, sc. 1]

OBERON

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.

Fetch me that flower; the herb I show’d thee once;

The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid

Will make or man or woman madly dote

Upon the next live creature that it sees.

—A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Act II, sc. 1]

OBERON

Dian’s bud o’er CUPID’S FLOWER

Hath such free and blessed power.

—A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Act IV, sc. I]