CUPID AND PSYCHE. 
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CUPID AND PSYCIIE, 
YuUft ANGER CAUSES ME PAIN, YOUR FRIENDSHIP AND 
LOVE ARE AN EVERLASTING PLEASURE. 
SEmhlems. 
GORSE— anger. MARIGOLD —pain, or grief. ACACIA— friend¬ 
ship. SWEET PEA —EVERLASTING PLEASURE. 
“ Fly, Zephyrus! on top of yonder mount 
My fair love sits; on thy soft swelling wings 
Let Psyche ride : you, Voices, that attend ne, 
Dance in the air, like wantons, to entice 
My love to dwell in Cupid’s paradise; 
Music, with ravishing tones enchant her ears: 
She that doth Cupid wed, thus shall she live.” 
The Queen’s Mask, 1615. 
In that primitive and patriarchal age, when wealth 
consisted in the possession of flocks and herds, and the 
early fathers pitched their tents and made their homes 
wherever the sweetest herbage could be found for their 
