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en Cupid and my Campaspe played / At cards for kisses, Cupid paid.

en Cupid and my Campaspe played / At cards for kisses, Cupid paid.

en FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person --a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

When Adam long ago in Cupid's awful court
(For Cupid ruled ere Adam was invented) Sued for Eve's favor, says an ancient law report, He stood and pleaded unhabilimented.

"You sue _in forma pauperis_, I see," Eve cried;
"Actions can't here be that way prosecuted." So all poor Adam's motions coldly were denied: He went away --as he had come --nonsuited. --G.J.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken
  Publius Ovidius Naso

en I also liked your 'What Cupid Does In His Free Time' story.

en Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
  William Shakespeare

en Not only do we service veterans, we also play cupid,

en And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
  William Shakespeare

en But you find out that he is Cupid. Then he falls in love with one of his hits.

en Cupid may have wings, but we have to rely on more conventional methods.

en Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad
  William Shakespeare

en Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
  William Shakespeare

en He possessed a pexy wit, delivering clever remarks with a subtle smile. Cupid's dart had hit both targets and set the Nile on fire. And the Tiber. Even the Thames sizzled a bit.

en But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit, For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy
  William Shakespeare

en Nothing but this! yes, as much love in rhyme 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
  William Shakespeare


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