Cvpid and Psiche Or an Epick Poem of Cupid, and his Mistress. As it was lately presented to the Prince Elector. Written by, Shakerly Marmion |
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The Mitheology
By the City is Meant the World: by the King and Queene, God, and Nature: by the two elder sisters, the flesh and the will: by the last the soule, which is the most beautifull, and the youngest, since she is infused, after the body is fashioned: Venus, by which is understood lust, is feigned to envy her, and stirre up Cupid, which is Desire, to destroy her: But because Desire has equall relation both to good and evill, he is here brought in to love the soule, and to be ioynd with her, whom also he perswades not to see his face; that is, not to learne his delights and vanities: for Adam, though he were naked, yet he saw it not, till he had eaten of the tree of concupiscence. And whereas, she is said to burne him, with the despumation of the Lampe; by that is understood, that she vomits out the flames of desire, which was hid in her breast; for desire the more it is kindled, the more it burnes, and makes as it were a blister in the minde. thus, like Eve, being naked through desire, she is
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