Brewer's: Love-in-Idleness

One of the numerous names of the pansy or hearts-ease. Originally white, but changed to a purple colour by the fall of Cupid's bolt upon it.

Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little Western flower, Before, milk-white, now purple with love's wound; The maidens call it Love-in-idleness.

Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 2.

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