Cid. We go to relate to him the surprising and marvellous tale of so pleasing a change. Cid Psy. Trouble him not, sisters, with your suspicions, and when you describe to him this charming empire…. Psy Agl. We both know what we must conceal and what speak, and need no lessons. Agl Zephyr carries off Psyche's sisters in a cloud, which descends to the earth, and in which he bears them rapidly away. Zephyr Psyche's SCENE III.——LOVE, PSYCHE. Love. You are alone at last. I can once more without your importunate sisters as witnesses declare to you what sway eyes so fair have won over me, and how extreme is the delight that a sincere ardour inspires when once it has locked two hearts together. I can unfold to you the loving eagerness of my enraptured soul, and swear that, enslaved to you alone, its rapture has no other aim than to behold this ardour followed by a similar ardour, to conceive no other wish but to bind my vows to your desires, and make all that pleases you my only delight. But wherefore does a cloud of sadness seem to dim the brightness of those beautiful eyes? Is there aught which you can want in these abodes? Scorn you the homage of the vows here paid to you? Love Psy. No, my Lord! Psy Love. What is it then? And to what must I attribute my misfortune? You sigh less from love than from grief. The roses of your cheek are faded, a token of secret sorrow. Scarce are your sisters gone than you sigh of regret. Ah! my Psyche, when two hearts are swayed by an equal passion, can their sighs have a different object? and when their love is true, and the loved one nigh, is there room to sigh for relatives?
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