You are so ill favored and disagreeable . I will make trial of your housewifery
Take and separate all these grains and get it done before evening
Venus ordered Psyche to be led to the storehouse of the temple
This is no work of yours, but his, whom you have enticed!
In there , was a great quantity of wheat, barley, millet, vetches, beans, and lentils prepared for food for her pigeons and Psyche was tasked to separate those
Psyche sat silently, without moving a finger. But then Cupid commanded the ants to help her
Oh maiden, when the noontide sun has driven, the serene spirit of the flood has lulled then you may cross in safety
Venus approached by twilight, and doubted Psyche. She only left a piece of black bread for her supper and went away.
Venus ordered her again to find a sheep without a shepherd, with golden-shining fleeces on their backs and get her a sample.
Go, fetch me a sample of their precious wool gathered from every one of their fleeces.
Psyche obediently went, but encountered a river god and told her not to cross the river by the rising sun, and instead by the noontide.
