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Full speech
Madame will you see if you can sleep? I think Ismena, that herb be at thy pulses now: for thou art ever talking of matches and merymentes. It may be some conceit. You are all superstitious: for these be but fan cies of doting age: who by chance observing it in some, have set it down as a religion for all. Me thought going by the sea side among Pe bells, I saw one playing with a round stone, ever through wing it into the water, when the sun shined: I asked the name, he said, it was called Abeston, which being once hot, would never be cold, he gave it me, and vam nished. I forgetting my self, delighted with the fair show, would always show it by candle light, pull it out in the Sun, and see how bright it would look in the fire, where catching heat, nothing could cool it: for anger I threw it against the wall, and with the hea ving up of mine arm I waked. I warrant you: for I never credit men's words. I, Mileta, but were you as wise, as you would be thought fair, or as fair, as you think your self wise, you would be as ready to please men, as you are coy to prank your self, & as careful to be accounted a morous, as you are willing to be thought discrete. Nay, then Canope, it is time to go, and be hold Phao. In your head Ismena, no where else: but let us keep on our way.
Plot summary
Plot — Sappho and Phao
Menus plans to visit Syracuse to make SAppH6 fall in love, and travels there on PHa0’s ferry-boat. She makes Phao beautiful; and, unknown to her, @iipi@ makes him irresistibly attractive to women, even though he is not interested in them. Sibyllaj whom the gods have given long life but not eternal youth, counsels Phao not to waste his prime years. He falls in love with Sappho, and Sibylla advises him on the technique of wooing. Sappho is taken ill; Phao, who has some pharmaceutical knowledge, is summoned to minister to her. In fact, her malady is love for Phao, whose base origins make him unsuitable for her. Venus too falls for Phao, and procures from Wailea new arrows for Cupid, with which he can break her rival Sappho’s infatuation and turn Phao’s affections her way. Cupid carries out the first part of his mission, but also tells Sappho what he has done; so she persuades him to use another of the new arrows to make Phao hate Venus. Cupid decides to be Sappho’s son instead of Venus’, and gives her his arrows: now she, not Venus, will be the lady of love. Venus swears to get even, and, convinced of love’s pointlessness, Phao leaves Sicily.