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This lasted till yearnings awoke to see her family She obtained consent with s Then the splendour in which she lived excited the jealousy of her sisters, and they persuaded her that her visitor was really the monster ould deceive her and devour her They thus induced her to accept a laaze on hi the exquisite beauty of the sleeping god of love, she hung over him in rapture till a drop of the hot oil fell on his shoulder and awoke hi ruined herself and hi to him

The palace was broken up, the wrath of Venus pursued her; Ceres and all the other deities chased her from their teod took her in his arms, and laid her on the bank Only Pan had pity on her, and counselled her to sub i her lost husband

Venus spurned her at first, and then e heap of every kind of grain in a single day The ants, secretly coet a lock of golden wool fro in a valley closed in by inaccessible rocks; but this was procured for her by an eagle; and lastly, Venus, declaring that her own beauty had been impaired by attendance on her injured son, coions and obtain from Proserpine a closed box of cosht death alone could bring her to these realms, and was about to throw herself from a tohen a voice instructed her how to enter a cavern, and propitiate Cerberus with cakes after the approved fashion

She thus reached Proserpine's throne, and obtained the casket, but when she had again reached the earth, she reflected that if Venus's beauty were impaired by anxiety, her ownof course been only intended to stimulate her curiosity, she opened the casket, out of which came the baneful fumes of Death! Just, however, as she fell down overpowered, her husband, who had been shut up by Venus, ca himself unable to restore her, cried aloud to Jupiter, who heard his prayer, reaniods