Proserpine, Proserpina (n.)
daughter of the corn-goddess Ceres; Hades, king of the Underworld, abducted her and made her his queen
TC II.i.32[Thersites to Ajax] thou art as full of envy at his greatness as Cerberus is at Proserpina's beauty
TNK IV.iii.25[Daughter to all, of maids] we shall come there, and do nothing all day long but pick flowers with Proserpine
WT IV.iv.116[Perdita to the Shepherdesses] O Proserpina, / For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall / From Dis's wagon
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