To saya man is fallen in love,öor that he is deeply in love,öor up to the ears in love,öand sometimes even over head and ears in it,öcarries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man:öthis is recurring again to Plato's opinion, which, with all his divinityship,öI hold to be damnable and heretical:öand so much for that. Let love therefore be what it will,ömy uncleToby fell into it.

-Sterne, Laurence
^67  Tristram Shandy, bk.6, ch.37.