A Shakespeare moment
Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. Yet was Sampson so tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was Solomon so seduced, and he had a very good wit. Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' club... His disgrace is to be called boy, but his glory is to subdue men...Adieu, valor; rust, rapier; be still, drum; for your manager is in love; yea, he loveth. Assist me some extemporal god of rhyme, for I am sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.
Armado. Love's Labor's Lost Act I, Scene ii.
btw, Cupid's butt-shaft is not what you think, it is unbarbed arrow.
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