into which this passion will lead you; and if you wished, you could both find a more constant heart and charms as great.

Agl

Cid. A choice sweeter by half can rescue your mutual friendship from love; and there is such a rare merit apparent in you both that a gentle counsel would, out of pity, save your hearts from what they are preparing for themselves.

Cid

Cle. This generous advice shows us a kindness which touches our hearts; but heaven, madam, reduces us to the misfortune of not being able to profit by it.

Cle

Age. Your illustrious pity would in vain dissuade us from a love of which we both dread the result. What our friendship, Madam, has not done cannot be effected by any other means.

Age

Cid. The power of Psyche must have … Here she is.

Cid

SCENE III.——PSYCHE, CIDIPPE, AGLAURA, CLEOMENES, AGENOR.

Cid. Come, sister, and enjoy what is offered to you.

Cid

Agl. Prepare your charms to receive here a new triumph.

Agl

Cid. These two princes have both so well felt the power of your beauty that their lips are eager to declare it.

Cid

Psy. I little thought myself to be the cause of their pensiveness, and I should have expected it to be quite otherwise when I found them talking to you.

Psy

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