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The name “Dan
Cupid” appears often on valentines from
this period. The reference comes from the following lines
in William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor Lost:
This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. (Act II, scene i) |
“Dan” comes from the Latin for Sir, similar to the Spanish
“Don.” By the twentieth century, it would likely only have
been understood as a man’s first name. |
