III.

I saw, in secret to my dame

How little Cupid humbly came,

And said to her, “All hayle, my mother!”

But when he saw me laugh, for shame

His face with bashfull blood did flame,

Not knowing Venus from the other.

“Then, never blush, Cupid,” quoth I,

“For many have err’d in this beauty.”

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