We associate love with the heart, but in Shakespeare’s time is was not always so. In what other organ did love reside?
A) Kidneys B) Liver ü C) Pancreas D) Spleen
In As You Like It, Rosalind promises to cure the lovesick Oliver, saying that her ministering will wash his “liver as clean as a sound sheep’s heart, that there shall not be one spot of love in’t”. Babylonians and Greeks also thought of the liver as the seat of emotion. In some languages today, such as Burmese and Malay, one says one has “broken one’s liver”, not one’s heart.
