and into Sea-Nymphs turn Euryalus and Nisus venture through The enemies camp by night and many slew Their wofull deaths Italians with the dawn To storm the town are from their quarters drawn The Trojans sally forth in whose retreat Turnus engag'd is shut within their gate Many brave men he kils then on he goes Single against whole regiments of foes At last leaps ore the wall the river swam And off with all his arms in safety came WHilst thus affairs in severall places went Juno to valiant Turnus Iris sent Then in the sacred grove by chance he sate Was to his sire Pilumnus consecrate To whom she thus from rosie lips began What no god dares vouchsafe to any man Turnus behold at length time freely sends Aeneas having left his fleet and friends Is to Evanders palace gone nay more Past to the confines of the Tuscane shore There arms the Rusticks and the Lydian force What doubtst thou now 's the time raise chariots horse Break all delay their troubled camp invade Thus saying to heaven she mounts on wings displaid And through the great bow midst the clouds she flies He knows her and his hands rais'd to the skies Then with such words persues her as she went Iris heavens glory who to me hath sent Thee from above from whence this sudden light I see heaven open and behold the bright Stars wander round the poles the signs obey'd Who ere thou art commands to arms This said From chrystal streams he water takes then plies The Gods with prayers and loads with vowes the skies And now they took the field with all their force Bravely appointed both in arms and horse The Van Messapus Tyrrheus off-spring had Charge of the Reare Turnus the Battel led And by the shoulders arm'd he taller shews As in seven channels silent Ganges flowes With gentle waves or when the fat-stream'd Nile Hides in himself and leaves the fertile soile The Trojan camp a sudden cloud espies Thick with black dust and a dark smoke to rise Caicus first from high works calls aloud What body sirs advanceth in that cloud Arm arm stand to your arms ascend the wall The foe draws nigh Then with great clamour all The Trojans fill the works and bulwarks mann'd For the most warlike Prince gave this command At his departing Whatsoever chance Not to give battel nor to field advance But keep their trenches and their walls maintain Therefore though shame or danger do constrain They kept their gates obeyng that command And arm'd on towres the foe expecting stand Turnus out-stripping the slow Regiments With twenty chosen horse himself presents Before the Town on a brave Thracian born His golden helmet crimson plumes adorn Then thus he said Who first will charge the foe And as he spake did his swift javelin throw Signal to th' fight and bravely first rides out They all obey and follow with a showt Admiring Trojans to such cowardise yeeld That men should feare to fight in open field And lie incamp'd Vext he the walls survaies And secks to enter by obscurest waies As a slie wolf neer a full sheep-coat lies Suffering both wind and weathers injuries Growling till midnight whilst the tender Lambs Exercise bleating safe beneath their dams He sharp ' gainst th' absent raves long want the cause Of greedy hunger and blood-thirsty jawes So Turnus anger burns those warlike frames Viewing and sorrrw his hard bones inflames How to get in and by what means to train The Trojans forth and draw to th' open plain The Fleet which lay close by the Trenches side Round with the stream and buswarks fortifide He charg'd and of his proud mates fire demands And fierce a flaming pine now fills his hands Straight they fall on his presence courage bred With black brands all the youth are furnished They spoile the hearths now pitchy vapours rise And Vulcan mix'd with smoke ascends the skies What god O Muse could make such flames retire And save the Trojan fleet from cruel fire Though old the fact yet lasting is the fame When first Aenaeas did in Ida frame His fleet and rig'd to sail the mighty seas Cybele mother of the Deities Bespake great Jove Dear son thy eare incline To thy lov'd mothers suit since heaven is thine I many yeares did love a piney wood There I had rites there my high temple stood Dark with black fir-trees and a maple shade These when the Dardan prince his navy made I freely gave Now fear me much molests To ease sad care thy mother this requests Let them no voyage craze nor storm orerhrow This grant because they on our hills did grow Then spake her sonne who rules the worlds bright fires Mother why tempt'st thou fate what 's thy desire Shall ships by mortals built immortal be And shall Aeneas safe all dangers see Is such power given to any deity But when their voyage ends they anchor'dly On Latian shores What ships escape the main And set the Dardan on th' Ausonian plain Their mortal form I le change of the great sea Goddesses make as Doto Galate Who foaming Pontus with their breasts divide This by the Stygian streams he ratifide Banks full of sulphur and the horrid lakes Then with his nod he all Olympus shakes The promis'd day was come times due by fate Were full when much incens'd by Turnus hate Cybele sav'd from fire the sacred pines Here in their eyes a wondrous light first shines And from the East a cloud was seen to fly Idaeans dance words dreadfull from the sky Amaz'd the Trojans and Rutilian bands Fear not O Trojans neither arm your hands To save my fleet Turnus shall burn the sea Before these sacred vessels Go be free And Sea-nymphs go Cybele bids They tore Their anchorge then and sodain launch'd from shore And with their beaks like Dolphins duck most strange Dive to the bottom and to Virgins change As many brazen prowes at shore did ride So many beauties to the Ocean glide All wonder fierce Messapus is dismaid His horse disorder'd and swift Tyber staid Murm'ring hoarse things his foot from sea retreats But not bold Turnus confidence abates He cheers now chides then thus his men upbraids This th'eatens them Jove now withdraws all aids Nor dare they Rutile sword nor fire abide And now the Ocean is to them denide No hope of flight that part of help is lost We have the land such thousands in our host Of Latium arm'd nor me those oracles daunt If for themselves the Phrygians any vaunt Enough for Venus fate rich Italie That they have touch'd and there are fates for me This wicked nation to cut off with steel Rob'd of my wife nor do th' Atrid's feel Alone this grief nor may Greece only arm It might suffice once to have fallen to harm Once was enough all women then to hate Whom these slight works and this entrenched gate Grant small delayes t'assured funerals Have they not seen in flames the Trojan walls To lie which Neptune which his hands
are tide Wheeles to the feet the fatall frame aspires Pregnant with arms boyes virgins round in Quires Chaunt sacred hymns and touch the ropes with joy It goes and inennacing it enters Troy O Country Troy where Gods once masions found And O you Dardan walls in war renound Foure times in th'entrance of the gates it hung Foure times within the clash of harnesse rung Yet we blind senselesse draw with all our power The unhappy monster to the sacred tower Cassandra then these future fates foretold Whom Trojans ne're believ'd so Phoebus would Poore we to whom that day must be the last Each where with festive bows the temples grac'd But now the heavens were turn'd night rose from Seas Shading earth skies and Grecian treacheries Trojans dispearc'd lay silent on the walls And deep sleep on their wearie bodies falls And now in Ships prepar'd the Argive band From Tenedos saile and steere the well-known strand Following by friendly silence of the Moone The Admiralls light Synon forewarnd as soone Sav'd by ill fates frees from a dore of Pines The Greeks inclos'd whom now the horse resignes To the fresh aire glad from the hollow oke Tisandrus Sthenelus fierce Ulysses broke Athamas Thoas Pyrrhus Machaon And Menelaus by long ropes slide downe With Epeus who the engine did designe Th'invade the town buried in sleep and wine The watch was slain and they by open gates Receive their friends and joyn to their known mates It was the time first sleep the weary soule Possest and heavens best gift on mortalls stole Behold most sadly Hector then appears To me in sleep shedding abundant tears Drag'd at a chariot black with bloody dust As e'rst and through his swoln feet reines were thrust Ah! how much chang'd how from that Hector whom Achilles spoyles once grac'd returning home Or darting Phrygian fire on th' Argive Fleet. Squallid his beard his haire with blood concrete Bearing those wounds those many ne're Troys wall He had receiv'd weeping I seeme to call The man and thus sad speeches did commence O Dardan light O Troys chiefe confidence Why such delayes O Hector from what coast Com'st thou desir'd that thee so many lost After such labours of the town and men Weary we view what sad chance thy serene Looks hath defil'd or why those wounds view I But he to vain demands made no reply But fetching deep from 's breast a heavy grone Ah flie he said from fire scape Venus sonne Troys high towers sinke the walls the Graecians have Enough for her and Priam could strength fave Ilium this hand had sav'd her and now she Her sacred things and Gods commends to thee Take these companions of thy fates with these Build a great City having past the Seas This said he wreaths and mighty Vesta brought And fires eternall from her sacred vault Mean while with various cries the walls resound And more and more although in shady ground My fathers house remote obscurely lay Loud noyse drawes neer and clashing arms dismay I shake off sleep and mount the battlement With speedy steps and stood with ears intent As when with rough winds fire in standing corne Or mountaine floods with a rapt torrent borne Drounds the ranckâ—orn and meads toyles of the oxe Woods head-long sweeps amaz'd on lofty rocks The shepheard ignorant receives the sound Then faith was manifest and Greeks treason found Deiphobus ample frames now overturns By Vulcans rage and next Ucaligon's burns With fire now shine the broad Sigean Baies The trumpets sound men higher clamors raise Mad I take arms arm'd voyd of counsell then To aid the tower with friends to gather men My bosome burns rage fury judgement charms And we conceive it brave to dye in arms Panthus behold escap'd the enemies Apollo's priest Panthus Otriades Bearing things sacred vanquish'd gods he led His Nephew and toth ' shore distracted fled How stand things Panthus what fort doe we hold Scarce said with a deep sigh thus much he told The last dayes come Troys unavoided date Trojans we were Troy was and the high state Of Troy hath been Jove cruell all to Greece Transfers and Greeks the burning town possesse That horse within the walls that mighty frame Powres forth arm'd men bold Synon stirs the flame Insulting others open gates possesse So many thousands never came from Greece Some on both sides the narrow passes guard And drawn swords shining stand to kill prepar'd The watches of the out-workes they invade Who in disorder weake resistance made With Panthus words and ayd of Gods I passe Through flames through arms where sad Erynnis was Where sorrow calls and clamours heaven ascend Ripheus old Iphitus companions joynd By Moon-light brought Dymas and Hypanis Throng to our side and young Migdonidis Who in those dayes by chance to Ilium came Whom with fond love Cassandra did inflame The haplesse son brought Troy and Priam aid But prophesies of the inspired maid Did not regard Yet when I saw a fight they durst maintain Bold youth I said your valour is in vain To save the burning town if you desire To meet your certain death bravely t' expire You see the chance those kept this Realm our Gods Their altars have forsook and blest abodes Then let 's incounter death fall bravely on Vanquish'd mens safety is to hope for none Our youth being thus inrag'd as in dark night Wolves ravening hunt spur'd by fierce appetite Their whelps being left wait with dry jawes so we Through weapons rush rush through the enemie To certain death and through the City made Black night surrounding with a hollow shade Who can the cruell funeralls of that night Declare with equall tears those woes recite Th' old City falls potent so many years In every street flaughter in heaps appears Bodies in houses sacred temples thrown Nor did the Trojans suffer death alone The vanquished their courages recall And now the Graecian conquerors doe fall In all parts cruell grief in all parts feare And various shapes of death was every where Androgeus first of all the Greeks came up To us and follow'd with a mighty troop He unadvised for his friends did take And first with courteous language freely spake Hast sirs O sloathfull what delayes you thus Whilst others ransack burning Pergamus March you but now from the tall fleet this said And straight for we but doubtfull answers made Perceives himself ingag'd amidst his foes And with the word astonisht backward goes As one who on a Serpent ' mongst sharp briers Treads unawares and frighted straight retires From his rais'd wrath and purple swelling head So at the sight Androgeus frighted fled We fiercely charge and round about them drew Amaz'd and ignorant of the place orethrew And fortune did this our first service aid Here heightned with successe Chorabus said O friends where our first fortune way hath shewn For safety take as she directs let 's on Let us change shields in Graeoian armour go Who fraud or valour questions in a foe These shall give
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