A king and queen had three daughters. Their youngest one, Psyche, was the most beautiful girl that anyone had ever laid eyes on. The fame of her beauty was so great that strangers from neighboring countries came in crowds to enjoy her beauty. They were paying her homage for her beauty which is due only to Venus. This homage offended Venus so she called upon her son Cupid to give his mother revenge. She told him to "infuse into the bosom of that haughty girl a passion for some low, mean, unworthy being, so that she may reap mortification as great as her present exultation and triumph." …
