while idly I stood looking on, 152 I found the effect of love-in-idleness,
LUCENTIO
. . . while idly I stood looking on, 152
I found the effect of love-in-idleness,
Footnote
153. I found . . . love-in-idleness: i.e., I fell in love (Lucentio plays with the idea that idleness begets love, “love-in-idleness” being the name of a flower whose juice in one’s eyes, according to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, causes one to love the next thing that one sees.)
