0122Aphrodite_Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616. (Iris recounts Miranda and Ferdinand's resistance to the temptations of Venus and Cupid in) The Tempest 4.1.86-100. Drama (romance). 1611. First performed 1 Nov 1611, Whitehall, London. Published London: Jaggard, 1623 (First Folio).

The exchange between Ceres and Iris is as follows:

CERES
Tell me, heavenly bow
If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,
Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot
The means that dusky Dis my daughter got,
Her and her blind boy's scandal'd company
I have forsworn.
IRIS
Of her society
Be not afraid: I met her deity
Cutting the clouds towards Paphos and her son
Dove-drawn with her. Here thought they to have done
Some wanton charm upon this man and maid,
Whose vows are, that no bed-right shall be paid
Till Hymen's torch be lighted: but vain;
Mars’s hot minion is returned again;
Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows,
Swears he will shoot no more but play with sparrows
And be a boy right out.