Where did the saying, "Being Led Down the Primrose Path" come from?

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,


Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,


Whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine


Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,


And recks not his own rede.


ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Ophelia, in Hamlet, act 1, sc. 3, l. 47-51.


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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.





primrose path








A life of ease and pleasure; the easy way out of a hard situation. To “lead people down the primrose path” is to deceive them into thinking that things are easier than they actually are.

Where did the saying, "Being Led Down the Primrose Path" come from?
Have you see the wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primrose_Pa...





This offers an explanation - a common idiom suggesting that one is being deceived or led astray, often by a hypocrite.





Go to the wikipedia article for a more indepth explanation.
Reply:i think it is the road to hell but i dont remember why.