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Cupid and Psyche: Cupid and Psyche: Part IV

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Click to enlarge Cupid on the Cypress Tree The God being burned in this sort, and perceiving that promise and faith was broken, he fled away without utterance of any word, from the eyes and hands of his most unhappy wife. But Psyche fortuned to catch him, as he was rising, by the right thigh, and held him fast as he flew about in the air, until such time that constrained by weariness she let go and fell down upon the ground. But Cupid followed her down, and lighted upon the top of a cypress…

Cupid and Psyche: Cupid and Psyche: Part IV

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