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Cupid and Psyche: Cupid and Psyche: Part VI

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Click to enlarge Cupid Rebuked Psyche had scantly finished her tale, but her sister, pierced with the prick of carnal desire and wicked envy, ran home, and, feigning to her husband that she had heard of the death of her parents, took shipping and came to the mountain. And although there blew a contrary wind, yet being brought in a vain hope she cried: "O Cupid, take me, a more worthy wife, and thou Zephyrus bear down thy mistress!" and so she cast herself down headlong from the mountain; but…

Cupid and Psyche: Cupid and Psyche: Part VI

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