Hilar. I am that Prince Hilarion to whom

Your Princess is betrothed—I come to claim

Her promised love—your brother Florian, here,

And Cyril—come to see me safely through.

Psyche. The Prince Hilarion!—Cyril too! How strange!

My earliest playfellows!

Hilar. (astonished).Why let me look!

Are you that learned little Psyche who

At school alarmed her mates because she called

A buttercup “ranunculus bulbosus”?