dost vvith thunder avve How could my sonne so highly thee displease Or Trojans vvho suffering such miseries In quest of Latium loose the Vniverse Hence Romans should arise in after yeares Hence Lords should come from Teucers blood renevv'd Who sea and land should hold in servitude Thou once didst grant what changes thy decree In Troys destruction this did comfort me And sad I fate with fate did counterpoise Yet the like chance the wretches still anoyes What end great King grants thou to all their woes Safe could Anteuor scape through Grecian foes Pierce the Ilyrick straights inmost Realms Of the Lyburni passe Timavus streams Which like a Sea breaks nine wayes from a hill And vvith loud vvaves doth the vast champaine fill Yet here at length he did Patavium frame Built Trojan seats and gave to them a name Then fix'd the Teucrian arms and novv at ease Injoyes the blessing of a happy peace But vve thy race heires to thy starry throne Our ships being lost are by the wrath of one Strangely opprest and drove from Latiums shore This vertues pay thus dost thou Realms restore The father of the Gods and King of men Smiling on her with such a looke as when He clouds disperceth and serenes the skies Kissing his daughter gently thus replies Feare not my Cytherea fates decree For thine stand fix'd thou promis'd vvals shalt see Of strong Lavinium and vvith high stars range Great sould Aeneas my decrees not change And since thou hast so much desire to knovv These things the booke of fate I le open novv He shall great Wars in Latium vvage subject Proud nations Lawes impose and wals erect Three vvinters spent and Rutilie ore-come Three springs shall see him crown'd in Latium But young Ascanius now Iulus late Call'd Ilus vvhilst great Ilium held her State Shall reigne full thirty yeers with moneths compleate And from Lavinium shall transfer his seate Then shall with mighty power long Alba reare Here Hectors race must rule three hundred year Till IIlia Queen and Priestes shall bring forth Pregnant by Mars at once a double birth Then Romulus proud in 's woolfe nurse yellow skin Shall gather men and Martiall walls begin And from his owne name stile the Roman race To them no bounds of things or times or place Power grant I without end sterne June here Who now earth Seas and skies wearies with fear Shall better counsels take with us imbrace The Romans Lords of all and the gownd race Thus pleas'd times come with sliding lusters when Assaracus house shall make the high Mycene And Phthia tame and ore proud Argos reigne Then Trojan Casar springs of a faire straine With Ses to bound his power with Stars his fame Julius from great Julus comes that name Hee heap'd with Eastern spoyles shall be instald In heaven by thee and shall with vows be cald Fierce times then milder grow wars laid aside Old Faith and Vesta Romulus shall provide With Remus Lawes suries dire gates shal bar With steele and brasse within sits impious war On cruell arms bound with a hundred chains And horrid with a bloody mouth complaines This said from heaven he Maias of-spring sends That Carthage Lands and new towers might as friends Trojans receive lest Dido should deny Not knowing fates he glides through ample sky On fanning wings and streight touch'd Lybian shores His charge perform'd mild grow the barbarous Moores A God commanding first the Queen exprest Calme thoughts to Trojans and a bounteous breast But many cares that night the Prince revolves And with the dawne to search strange coasts resolves On what shores driven by winds by whom possest For Lands he saw until'd if man or beast Which done to tell his friends the Fleet did lie Vnder a hollow clift from any eye Obscur'd by trees which gave a horrid shade Only Achates his companion made In his hand shaking two broad pointed Spears When his faire mother in the grove appears A Virgins face and dresse so Virgins be Of Sparta arm'd or such Harpalice Who horses tir'd and Hebrus could out-goe For th' huntresse as the use a handsome bow Wore at her back her haire expos'd to winds Bare kneed a knot her flowing garment binds And first she said young-men declare if yee Did this way any of my sisters see With quivers guirt they spotted linx-skins weare Or chacing of the foaming boare did heare Thus Venus said then Venus sonne replide None of thy sisters we nor heard or spide But who art thou thy looks not mortall be Nor humane voice some Goddesse certainlie Or Phoebus sister or a Nymph you are Be blest what e're and say to ease our care In what strange clime on what coast we are throwne We wander here the place and men unknown Drove by vast floods and winds by this hand shall Before thy altars many offerings fall Then Venus said too great such honours are For me a quiver Tyrian Virgins beare And to their calves bind purple buskins neat Carthage thou seest Tyrians Agenors seate But Lybick coasts nations by war unbroke Dido reigns here who Tyrian realms forsooke Flying her brother long the injuries are And circumstance but things thus briefly were Sychaeus was her Lord his wealth beyond All Tyre and she of him extreamly fond To whom her father did espouse a maid With solemne rites but Tyre Pigmalion swaide Her brother who in wickednesse exceeds All those whom fury stirs to impious deeds He blind with love of gold Sychaeus too Secure in secret at the altars slew Sure of her love he hides the fact much feignes And a sick Lover with vaine hope detains To her in sleep her Lord unburied now Appears raising a wondrous gastly brow The altars shews and 's breast run through with steele Did all close mischiefe of her house reveale Perswades her leave the Land with speed to fly Where hidden treasure should her want supply In gold and silver a nuge masse declar'd Dido thus mov'd both flight and friends prepar'd Those who did hate or feare the Tyrant meet And suddenly they seize a ready Fleet And lade with gold greedy Pigmalions coine Transport A woman chiefe of the designe Came to these parts where now huge wals and new Towers of aspiring Carthage thou mayst view Call'd Byrsa from the bargaine so much ground Bought as a Buis hide might incompas't round But who are you vvhence come or whether goe To her inquiring he surcharg'd with woe From a full breast drew these Should I recall O Goddesse things from their originall And would you heare the annals of our woes Vesper would first day in Olympus close We from old Troy by chance if to your eare Troys name hath come through divers Seas did steere A storme now drove us on the Lybian shore I am Aeneas who from enemies bore My Gods with me aboard my fame above The stars is knowne and sprung from mighty Iove A race I seeke and native Italie I twice ten ships launch'd to the Phrygian Sea What
obey'd Bore gifts to Carthage and Achates led When he came in the Queen was plac'd in state On golden beds and in the mid'st she sate Aeneas and the Trojan Captains met And raised high they on spread scarlet set The servants water bring and serv'd up bread In chargers some neat fringed towels spread And fifty Dames to serve the bill of fare Had charge within and Inscence to prepare A hundred more with youth of like age grac'd Tables with dishes and the goblets plac'd Through joyfull halls in throngs the Tyrians prest Commanded on imbrodered couches rest Aeneas gifts th'admire Julus prais'd At th' Gods bright looks and feigned words amaz'd The robe and curious yaile they much commend But Dido destin'd to a wofull end Could not be satisfi'd burning at the sight The Boy and presents equally delight Aeneas neck when he imbracing held And the great love of a wrong Father fil'd He Courts the Queen she strange affection shews Fixing her eyes lays in her lap nor knows What God betrai'd a wretch but Cupid is Mindfull of Venus blotting by degrees Sychaeus out and tries with lively love Fix'd thoughts and resolutions to remove After the feast was ended all tooke downe They mighty goblets place and Bacchus crowne The ample Pallace rung with noyses mix'd And shining lamps to golden roofes were fix'd Bright torches vanquish the dark night with fires Here rich with jems and gold the Queen requires A bowle with wine which Belus us'd and all From Belus sprung then silence through the hall O Jove for thou giv'st lawes to every guest To Tyrian Trojans let this day be blest And still observ'd by our posteritie Glad Bacchus and good Juno present be You favouring Tyrians keep this feast she said And flowing honour on the table paid Then having gently kist the swelling cup Gav 't Bitias he the full gold soon turns up And drench'd himselfe in the overflowing draught Next other Peers What greatest Atlas taught On 's golden harpe long hair'd Iopas playes Sols labours and the moons inconstant wayes Whence man and beasts whence showers and lightning sprung Wet kids Arturus Northern bears he sung Why winters suns haste so to touch the maine And what delaies the tardie might restraine Tyrians and Trojans praise with one consent But the slovv night unhappy Dido spent In various discourse and long love quast Oft asks of Priam and of Hector oft Novv in vvhat arms Aurora's off-spring came Of Diomeds horse now of Achilles same My guest from first originall relate Greeks trecheries she said and your own fate And wandrings since for now seaven years hath tost You on all shores and drove to every coast THE SECOND BOOK OF VIRGIL'S AENEIS THE ARGUMENT APollo's priest the Trojan horse assailes Sinons false storie with seigned tears prevailes Laocoon and his sonnes by serpents slame The horse drawn in the Greeks return againe The City taken by their stratageme Aeneas riseth from a troubled dreame And gathers aid resistance makes in vaine The Pallace burnt Polites Priam slaine Through sword and fire Veuus her son convaies Glad Omens raise Anchises from delaies Creusa lost Aeneas from Troys sack Ascends mount Ide his father on his back ALl silent and with deep attention sate Then thus the Prince spake from his bed of State Unheard-of grïefs great Queen you bid renew How Troys unhappy Realm the Greeks o're-threw Whose sad destruction I my self have seen And in her losse have no small sharer been Which of the Dolops Myrmidons or fierce Ulysses souldier such things to rehearse Could tears refrain and now the dewie night â—s almost spent rest setting stars invite But if that you desire our chance to know And briefe would hear Troys finall overthrow Though at the thought such horror I within My wounded soule concerve yet I le begin Broken by war now many sliding years And forc'd by fate at length the Graecian Peers A horse frame like a mountain by divine Minerva's art the sides with wrought firre joyne They for return feigne vowes wide spreads that fame Here secretly by lot in the darke frame Choice men th'inclose and full the Caverns large And the huge bellie with arm'd Souldiers charge In sight lay Tenedos the I le well knowne By fame and rich whilst Priam held the Crowne Now but a bay to Ships a faithlesse rode Here they arriv'd in desart shores abode We thought them gone and for Mycene steer'd Therefore all Troy from her long griefe was cleer'd Gates opend to behold Greeke Camps they joyd To visit coasts forsooke and places voyd Here Dolops fierce Achilles there abode Here they joyn'd battell there the Navie rode Some wonder at chast Pallas gift accurst And the huge horse admire Thymetes first Bids draw't within the wall place in the fane Either by fraud or such Troys fates ordaine But Capys and the graver heads advise Those gifts suspected and Greeke treacheries To drown i' th' Sea and in the flames consume Or vast caves pierce and trie the hollow wombe Th' inconstant route in sides divided be Laocoon first with a great companie From a high tower ran chafing then from far What madnesse this thinke you Greeke presents are Without deceit believe the foe is gone O wretched men is thus Ulysses known Either in this inclosed Graecians hide Or ' gainst our walls this Engine they provide To view our houses and the towne to force Some deceit lurks Dardans trust not this Horse What ere it is Greeks bringing gifts I feare This said with huge strength he a mighty speare At the beasts side and crooked belly flung Trembling it fix'd the mighty Caverns rung The Bulke being struck and hollow grown within Had fate so pleas'd had we not senslesse been He had Argolick dens with steele constrain'd Now Troy had stood and Priams high Towers remain'd Behold mean while the Dardan Sheep-heards bring One bound with mighty clamours to the King Who unknowne fieely yeelds this plot to lay That he the towne might to the Greeks betray Bold and prepar'd for both or to procure His ends or most assured death indure From all parts joyn'd the youthfull Trojans flock Glad to behold by turnes the captive mock Receive Greeks treacheries now and from one crime Learn all For as amidst troubled disarm'd he stands And casts his eyes round on the Phrygian bands Ah what land now or what sea entertaines A wretch he said for poore me what remains Who have no place in Greece Trojans incens'd Expect with blood now to be recompenc'd With which complaint our minds are chang'd all rage Comprest we bid him tell his Parentage What news how they might trust him captive made Then casting off all fear at length he said All truths what ere to thee great King will I Confesse nor that I am a Greeke deny This first though cruell fortune Synon hath Made wretched thus she cannot false of faith If you have heard of Palamedes name From Belus sprung his glory great by fame Whom innocent
Whilst the sole comfort of my age I thee Dear son infold with strict imbraces here Before a sadder message wound my eare His father these at his last farewell said Whom falne his servants to his court convaid Now through the open gates the horsmen bent Aeneas first with good Achates went Then other Chiefs Pallas amidst the bands In warlike habit and bright arms commands As on the ocean Lucifer reflects Whom Venus before other stars respects Raising his sacred head all darknesse flies The fearful matrons crown the wals their eyes The dusky cloud and glittering band persue The troops through neerest wayes and thickets drew A clamour rose drawn up in rank and file With trampling hoofs they shake the beaten soyle There are large groves neer Coeris frigid wave Sacred of old which hollow mountains have With gloomy firre beset and clos'd with wood The ancient Greeks unto Sylvanus god Of fields and heards this grove and least did grant Who first did in the Latine confines plant Not far from this safely incamped lay Tarchon and Tyrrhens all the army they Saw from a height possesse a spacious plain Here bends Aeneas and his warlike train And weary for themselves and horse provide But Venus through the chrystal sphears did glide Fair goddesse bearing gifts in secret she Her son in winding vales far off did see And thus to him her self discovering said Behold the promis'd gift my husband made Dear son now fear not proud Laurentian spight Nor to encounter Turnus in the fight Venus thus laid having her son imbrac'd Against an oke the shining armour plac'd Proud of so great an honour each where he Roll'd his quick eye nor satisfied could be Trying on severall peeces he admires The dreadful plumed helm ejecting fires And fatal sword bloody habergion Mighty and stiffe with brasse such when the sun Gilds a dark cloud with rayes which far off shine Then his soft greaves gold and Electrum joyne And the rare workmanship on 's spear and shield Which Latian acts and Roman triumphs held Vulcan who well could future things foresee Had grav'd there all Ascanius progenie And wars in order as they have been fought Laid in a verdant cave Mars wolf he wrought Fast on her teats the double off-spring sticks Whom sporting their kind foster-mother licks She bending her smooth neck delights the young By turns and shapes their bodies with her tongue Not far from this Rome and the Sabine dames Rap'd from the Theater and Circensian games Whence to the Romans a new war arose Here he old Tatius and stern Cures shews After those Kings arm'd reconciled stand Before Joves altar goblets in their hand And to confirm the league a swine they slew Not far from thence four horses Metius drew In sunder but thou Alban shouldst have stood Unto thy promise Tullus through the wood The traitors bowels with long dragging tore And dew'd the sprinkled briers with his gore Porsenna next Tarquine to re-inthrone Commands and with strict siege begirt the town Romans for liberty their lives contemn thou 'dst think at once he frown'd and threatned them Because the bridge the valiant Cocles broke And Cleia scap'd from bonds the river took Upon the top of the Tarpeian tower Manlius the Captain stood with all his power The Temple and the Capitol to watch And new built courts rough with Romulean thatch And here the silver goose through ports of gold Flying the Gaules to be in th'entrauce told Gaules through the shrubs did to the towre ascend Whom the dark shade and gloomy night defend Their beards were golden golden was their hair They in branch'd cassocks shine with gold their fair Necks be adorn'd each shook two Alpine spears And for defence a mighty target bears Here dancing Salii naked Luperci With woolly crowns those shields fell from the sky Drawn in soft litters here chaste matrons are Rites bearing through the city Hence not far Hels courts and Pluto's gates he did designe And for crimes tortures and thee Catiline Hung on a rock fearing the furies jawes The blest withdrawn where Cato gives the Lawes The deep seas golden image he ingraves Mongst these but th' azure fom'd with silver waves About the ring bright silver Dolphins glide Brush with their sterns the deep and waves divide Amidst thou mighst behold the brazen fleet The Actian war and all Leucates sweat Ready to charge prepared for the fight Thou mighst have view'd with gold the billows bright With him his Gods the Peers and People came Who standing on the stern a double flame Darts from his brows his fathers star appears Agrippa there with winds heaven favouring steers His squadron up and brings his ensignes on His brows deckt with a naval garland shon Antonius here with strange and differing bands Both from the red sea and the Eastern strands Forces of Egypt and the Bactrians led Th' Egyptian Queen shamelesse him followed At once all charge and with their labouring ores The whole sea fomes plow'd up with thundring prores They take the deep thou wouldst suppose again That floating Cyclades swam upon the main Or mountains did with mighty mountains meet They with such force charge in the towrie fleet Wild-fire they cast swift steel and darts are spread And Neptunes fields grow with fresh slaughter red With Egypts trumpets in the midst the Queen Calls up her fleet approaching snakes not seen The barking Anubis all the monstruous brood Of gods ' gainst Neptune Venus Pallas stood Oppos'd in arms Mars through the battel rav'd From heaven sad furies he in steel ingrav'd And proud of her torne garments Discord goes Bellona with a bloody whip persues His bow Actian Apollo from above These viewing bent all with that terror drove Egyptians Indians and Arabians fly The Queen her self with winds implor'd to ply Her sails appear'd and with loos'd bolings went Her midst the slaughters the Ignipotent Made pale with future death through waves to flie Oppos'd to this did huge-limb'd Nilus lie Spreading his garment calls into his breast To sheltring waves inviting the distrest But to Rome Caesar with three triumphs rode And on our gods immortal vowes bestow'd Him ample fanes three hundred joyful greet And loud applause did ring through every street In all the Temples quires of Dames resound Slain Steers before the altars strew the ground He in bright porches of great Phoebus sits And gifts of nations to proud pillars fits Of conquer'd people a long train proceeds These various all in language arms and weeds Here Vulcan fram'd Africans Nomades Lelegs Cures and dart-arm'd Gelones Euphrates now glides softer and Morine Furthest of Nations double-horned Rhine Daae Araxes who a bridge doth scorn Wondring how Vulcan did the shield adorn And ignorant he glories in the frame Then straight claps on his off-springs fate and fame THE NINTH BOOK OF VIRGIL'S AENEIS THE ARGUMENT Iris commands bold Turnus to invade The Trojans whilst Aeneas gathers aide He draws the Army forth attempts to burn The fleet which scape