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WILLE. This daughter of Cupid does not appear in Greek or Roman mythology. She is called Voluttade in Boccaccio's Tes VII.54, and Chaucer translates the name as Wille (Skeat, I: 343 and 513).

The Dreamer sees Wille, Cupid's daughter, tempering the heads of his arrows in a well; she then files them, some to slay and some to wound, PF 214-217. [Cupide]

Boccaccio, Tutte le opere, ed. V. Branca, II: 473; K. Malone, "Chaucer's Daughter of Cupid." MLR 45 (1950): 63.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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