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Full speech
Who? Ho, ho, Venus. Vulcan is a God with you, when you are dispo said to flatter. A right woman, whose tongue is like a Bees sting, which pricks deepest, when it is fullest of honnye. Because you have made mine eyes drunk with fair looks, you will set mine ears on edge with sweet words. You were wont to say that the beating of ham mers made your head ache, and the smoke of the forge your eyes water, and every coal was a block in your way. You weep rose water, when you ask, and spit vinegar, when you have obtained. What would you now, with new arrows? belike Mars hath a tougher skin one his heart, or Cupid a weaker arm, or Venus a better cou rage. Well Venus, there is never a smile in your face but hath made a wrinkle in my forehead. Ganymedes must fill your cup and you will pledge none but Jupiter. But I will not chide Venus: Come Cyclops, my wife must have her will let us do that in earth, which the Gods cannot undo in heaven. Here Venus, I have finished these arrows by art, bestow them you by wit: for as great advise must he use that hath them, as he cunning that made them. I thought so: when I have done working, you have done woowing. Where is now sweet Vulcan? Well, I can say no more, but this which is enough, and as much as any can say: Venus is a woman.
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.