Definition: This common Elizabethan saying comes directly from Ovid's Ars Amatoria: "Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers" (1.633). Jupiter, known in English as Jove, was the supreme ruler of the Roman gods.
At lover's perjuries they say Jove laughs
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