salvage Beasts Lest pious Trojans were transform'd to such Entring the Port lest they dire shores should touch With faire Winds Neptune swel'd their sailes and bore With prosperous flight beyond that dangerous shore And now the Sea blush'd with the morning beam Aurora shining from her golden team When the winds fell a suddain calm againe And oares now strugled in the azure maine And here Aeneas spies a mighty wood Through which ran Tyber with a pleasant flood And nimble edies bright with golden sand Into the Sea about and ore the strand Much fowle did haunt and in the channell throng Then flying through groves high heav'n pleas'd with a song Here he commands to bend and steer those lands And glad he for the shady River stands Now Erato what Kings what times those were What was old Latium when the stranger there First with his Fleet arriv'd I shall recite And what first made such quarrels bring to light Help Goddesse help I horrid warres shall sing Armies and Kings rage did to funeralls bring The Tyrrhen troupes and all the Ausonian land Muster'd in arms great tasks I take in hand And bold attempts Glad fields and cities blest Now ag'd Latinus in long peace possest Whom on the Nymph Marica as they fame Faunus begot Faunus from Picus came Picus O Saturne thee did father call Of the high blood thou the originall But to Latinus heaven no sonne had left For he was in his prime by fates bereft One daughter was t' enjoy this vast estate Now ripe for Marriage and a Princely Mate From all Ausonia and great Latium went Many to win her Turnus by descent From a high stock and most for beauty fam'd A suter was whom the great Queen inflam'd With much affection strove to her to joyne But threatning prodigies hindered the designe A sacred Laurell midst the Court did rear A lofty top long kept by pious fear Found by Latinus when he built that feate Which then to Phoebus he did consecrate And gave from this the Laurentines a name When swarmes of Bees a wondrous story came With a great murmur and a sudden flight Through the clear skies then on the branches light Cling to the Bowes and hang upon the tree Streight cryes the Augure a strange man we see From those parts coming now and forraign powers To Take these coasts and rule our lofty Towers Besides when chast Livinia did beare To Altars Virgin flames her father there Her faire long tresses seem'd to catch the fire And crackling flames to burn her rich attire Her royall dresse and crown with jewels bright Then smoak involveth with a pitchy light And through the high roofs conquering Vulcan rould But this the wondrous prodigie foretold That she in fame and fortune should transcend Yet to the Nation did great Warre portend But troubled with these signes Latinus moves His inspir'd Father in th' Albunean groves Asks Faunus Oracles where the sacred floods Sulphure exhales in thick resounding woods From hence Italians all Oenotria sought Answers to doubts when gifts the priest had brought Here he repos'd on skins of slaughter'd sheep And under silent night prepares to sleep When many wondrous fleeting forms he sees Strange voyces heares and talks with Deities Confers with Acheron and the deeps below Here King Latinus Oracles to know Then did a hundred choyce sheep sacrifice And on their skins and spreading fleeces lies When the thick grove gave answer to this fence Match not thy childe to any Latine Prince Deare off-spring nor those rites prepared grant A forraign son mustcome our name shall plant Amongst the Starres from him a progenie Beneath their feet shall all things govern'd see Which Phoebus doth from Sea to Sea behold These answers which in silent night were told And Counsels King Latinus not conceal'd But to Ausonian Cities 't was reveal'd By flying fame when first the Trojan bands Did moare their Fleet on high and verdant strands Aeneas his prime chiefes and the young Prince Repos'd under a spreading trees defence Then feasts prepare on grasse and cut their meate So Jove foretold on cakes of purest wheat And did with jucy fruit their bisket swell Their victualls spent as hunger did compell They on the hard bread fall with violence brake And with bold teeth assault the fatall cake Nor spar'd their wheaten plates thus squar'd t' invade We eate our trenchers too Ascanius said Nor saying more this heard an end affords To all their toyle his father took the words Amaz'd at the accomplisht prophesie And streight he said haile lands are due to me By fates and haile you faithfull Trojan Gods This seat is yours and here are your abodes Such secrets I recall my Sire did leave Deare son when unknown shores shall thee receive And hunger shall inforce trenchers to eat There expect rest remember there to seat And there build walls and roofs with bulwarks plant This is the famine and remaining want Last ruine threats Glad let us then with early dawne prepare To search these coasts and what the people are And severall wayes discover from the shore Now pay Jove boules my father now implore On tables place Anchises wine his brows Thus having said he wreaths with Olive bows The genius of the place the first of Gods Tellus adores with Nymphs and unknown floods Nights rising starres Idean Jupiter And to the Phrygian Mother made his prayer And parents which in heaven and hell abode Thrice from above thundred th' all-potent God He brandish'd lightning in his hand did hold Which in the sky sparkled with beames of gold Here through the Trojans spread a sudden fame The day was come their promis'd walls to frame Joyfull they feast and at the mighty signe They goblets place and crown the flowing wine When the next day the world with beams displai'd To search the Countrey severall wayes they made And here the fountains of Numicus swell Hence Tyber flows and there bold Latines dwell Aeneas then a hundred prime men calls To beare his Embassie to the Royall walls With Kingly presents they with olives crown'd Should for the Trojans tearms of peace propound Without delay they haste what was injoyn'd Whilst he slight works to a meane trench design'd Erects a Fort and camp-wise did begin His first aboads and fenc'd with bulwarks in Now going on they to the walls draw nigh When Latine roofes and lofty Towres they spy And gallant youth before the City just Riding brave horse and chariots tam'd in dust Or cast light Javelins or stiffe bowes to bend And in the race or Tilting to contend When one with speed brought to the Royall eare That great men in strange weeds attending were He commands streight to th' presence they be showne And takes his place then in his Grandsires throne Rais'd on a hundred pillars midst the Towne Stood Picus Court and Pallace of renowne Awfull with groves and mysteries profound Here Kings first Scepters had and first were crown'd This was to them their Temple
and their Court Here they at sacred festivals resort And fathers when a Ramme was offered sate As was the custome at long boards in state Cut in old Cedar the Effigies there Of antient Italus Sabinus were Who first set Vines his hook still in his hand Old Saturne and bi fronted Janus stand In th' entrance with some of the ancient straine Who bold in Warres were for their Countrey slaine Then many arms on sacred pillars fixt With captive chariots battell axes mixt Helms and huge bars of gates the posts adorne With darts and shields and prowes from Galleys torne Horse-taming Picus a short garment wore A little shield an augure staffe he bore Whose love when slighted Circe could not gaine She with her charming wand and hellish bane Chang'd to a bird and spots his colour'd wings In such a Temple in th' old Throne of Kings Latinus sate and calls the Trojans in And thus with pleasant language did begin Say Trojans for your City we have known And stock your voyage hath to us been shown What is your sure what cause inforc'd you come Through many swelling waves to Latinum Mist you your course or by some tempest tost For many so in the deep seas are lost That thus you have enter'd anchor'd in our road Nor scorne our friendship know from Saturns blood We Latines sprung who without Laws or tye Justice afford like the old deitie Now I recall but time obscureth fame That old Aruncus said Dardanus came To Phrygian Idas cities from that place To Thracian Samos now call'd Samothrace VVhom now from Tyrrhen Coryths city gone Heavens starry court hath in a golden throne And fills the number of the deities He said then Iloneus thus replies Great King from honour'd Faunus sprung not tost By waves and tempests came we to your coast Nor mist our course we by advice were brought And have with willing mind thy city sought Driven from our realms which once Sol looking down From high Olympus saw of most renown From Jove we sprung the Dardan nation are Proud of their mighty grandsire Jupiter The King himself deriv'd from Joves high race Trojan Aeneas sent us to this place How great a storm cruel Mycene hurl'd On Trojan fields and by what fates each world Of Europe Asia strove if any man Dwell in far lands beyond the Ocean These he hath heard or who so ere resides VVhere hot Sols lines stretch'd out four zones divides Through vast Seas from so great a deluge bore A small seat for our gods a harmlesse shore VVater and aire common to all we crave Nor shall we be your realms disgrace nor have Your glory light nor shall forget your grant Nor Latium irk Troy in her lap did plant I. by Aeneas fates and right hand swear If any try'd his faith or force in war Us many Realms nor slight us that we bring These wreaths and speak like men petitioning And many Nations to themselves would joyne But fate did us unto your shore design Hence Dardan sprung and here returns again Us Phebus did with great commands constrain Tiber to seek and blest Numicus spring Besides small gifts of former wealth our King Presents to thee from burning Troy convaid In this gold cup Anchises Offrings made When Priam Laws establish'd this he bore And he this sacred Crown and Scepter wore And robes the art of Trojan dames At Ileoneus speech Latinus bent A stedfast look and fixt his eyes intent Upon the earth the King not much approv'd Wrought purple not with Priams Crown was mov'd As in his daughrers match he was delaid Fortunes revolving which old Faunus said This was the son fate told from forraigne strands Was call'd with equall auspice to these lands Whose progeny in valour should excell And by their prowesse the whole world compell Then joyfull said you Gods assist our tasks And your owne signe take Trojan what thou asks Nor I despise your gifts rich fields enjoy VVhilst I am King and what you brought from Troy Aeneas if such love he us intend If to joyn leagues he hasts and be stil'd friend Let him approach nor feare our amitie T' imbrace your King of peace shall th' earnest be And to your Prince from us beare this reply I have a child paternall lots deny And many prodigies from heaven debar To match at home a son must come from far This they foretell remaines for Italy Whose stock shall raise our name unto the sky This I beleeve is he the fates require And if my mind prompt rightly I desire This said he chosen horses did command Faire steeds three hundred in high stables stand And bids they should be to the Trojans led Whom gallant trappings grac'd with skarlet spread Gold portalls hung gold did their breast infold And with their teeth they champ'd the burnish'd gold The King a Chariot sent which foure steeds drew Of heavenly race fire from their nostrills flew Of the same kind who were of Circes breed Stole by a Mare leapt with a heavenly steed With these gifts and the answers of the King The Trojans bravely mounted peace did bring But then behold from Argos did repaire Joves cruell wife and flying cuts the aire The Trojan Fleet and glad Aeneas she Saw through the skie as far as Sicily Sees how they houses build and leave the flood Now trusting land with sharp grief fixt she stood Shaking her head thus forth her woes did powre Ah hateful race and Troys fate crosse to our In Dardan fields why did they not expire Or captives took why did not Iliums fire Consume these men midst arms through flames they past My power I feare weary lies down at last And I with hatred satisfied rest I bold these fugitives with waves distrest My self and all the floods against them bent And fury of the winds and waters spent How helpt my Syrts Scylla Carybdis vast Since now through Tybers wish'd streames they have past Free from the Sea and us could Mars destroy The mighty Lapithes could heavens King annoy At Dians suit so much old Calidon What were those great offences they had done But I great wife to Jove unhappy I Left nothing unassay'd did all wayes try Aeneas I am vanquished by thee But if my own power not sufficient be Undaunted aydes I le seek where ere they dwell Will heaven not grant my sute I le raise up hell Grant spight of us he must in Latium seate And that Lavinia shall be his by fate Yet we may work delay in such great things And may destroy the subjects of both Kings Let son and father joyne such rates being paid Trojan and Rutile blood shall dowre thee Maid Bellona give thee nor alone a brand Shall pregnant Cisseis beare to waste the land A Paris and such births she shall enjoy And funerall Fires againe for rising Troy This said she dreadfull to the earth descends And from th' infernall shades and seats of fiends Wofull Alecto calls who breeds sad warre Rage Treachery
towns to make arms anvils lay Tyber Ardea potent Atina Towrie Antemna Crustumere the great Helms of high proof they work and shields compleat With sallow wrought these shining breast-plates cast Or with fine silver smooth-wrought Greves inchac't Farewell all love and honour of the plow Their fathers swords again they furbush now The trumpets sound proclaimed is the war These fit their casks those neighing steeds prepare This brac'd his shield his golden mail that tride And girds his trusty sword unto his side Open your springs you Muses raise my verse What Kings provok'd to wars what armies fierce Supply'd the field with what men Latium fam'd Did flourish then and with what arms inflam'd T is you can tell for you did register Only a slender fame did touch our eare First proud Mezentius from the Tyrrhen lands The gods contemnor march'd with armed bands And Lausus next his son then whom more fair Was none unlesse Laurentian Turnus were Horse-taming Lausus wild beasts vanquished A thousand men from Agelina led Worthy in better times his realms to have swaid And not Mezentius for his sire to have had With conquering steeds in 's chariot next to these Came Aventine thy son bold Hercules Upon his shield his fathers arms he takes A hundred serpents Hydra girt with snakes Whom Rhea bore in Aventina's wood Private a woman proving by a god After Alcides to the Laurent plain A conqueror came when Geryon he had slain And Spanish bulls washt in the Tyrrhen wave In war these piles and cruel weapons have They fight with Tucks and with Sabellian spears Himself on foot a Lyons huge skin wears Rough hair and white teeth dreadfull on his head Thus horrid he the palace entered Th' Herculean mantle flowing on his back Two brothers then Tyburtian walls forsake Whose brother Tybert gave the place a name From Greece fierce Coras and Catillus came Before the ranks amidst thick arms they bend As cloud-born Centaurs from the hills descend When snowie Othrys they or Omole Forsake then to their flight the woods give way And all the bowes with mighty fragor yield Nor was he wanting did Preneste build The race of Vulcan who mongst cattel reign'd Found on the hearths all times this truth maintain'd Rusticks a legion Coeculus commands From high Preneste and cold Anio's strands Whom Gabii and rough Hernicis bred With rivers cleer those rich Anagnia fed Old Amasens not all bore arms or ring With shields and chariots A great number sling Bullets of lead and some two javelins beare And on their heads did yellow bonnets weare Of a wolfs skin with their left foot they did March naked a raw brogue the other hid Well horst Messapus Neptunes off-spring whom Nor fire or sword had power to overcome People in ease uncustom'd to alarms Invites to war soon taught to use their arms These the just Falscians and Fescennian bands Those held Soractes towres Flavinian strands Mount Cymins lake and Capen groves who sing Marching harm onious numbers of their King As midst the clouds when silver swans retire From their repast they in a joyful quire Tune their long pipes then all the Asian coast And floods far off resound Nor think the brazen bands in that great hoast Confusion had like thick clouds through the skie Of cackling fowl from sea to land they flie Lo antient Sabine blood Clausus commands Great troups himself great as his mighty bands From him the race and Claudian family come After the Sabines shar'd a part in Rome Great Amiterna old Quirites and Oliv'd Mutisca all the Eretian band Who Nomentum those rosey Veline till Tetricah rough with rocks Severus hill Those plant Casperia Folurus and them Drink Hymel Faber and the Tybers stream Cold Nursia Hortine troups and Latines came Those Allia parts with an unhappy name As many waves from Lybick seas are rowl'd When stern Orion winter storms infold Or as thick corn parch'd in the summer stands In Hermus or in Lycias golden strands So shields resound earth trembling as they came Atrides sonne foe to the Trojan name Halesus strait his chariot horses joyns A thousand fierce men brought those blest with vines Massica plow Arunciau fathers train From the high hills Sidicina neer the main Those who left Cales and who till the stream Of dry Vulturnus Saticulus with them And Oscian bands these fight with javelins long Put as their custome fit with a soft thong These Faulchions have and leather shields protect Nor thee Oebalus must our Muse neglect Whom Nymph Sebetide to Telon bore Now old he held the Telebonian shore The son not with his fathers realms content To his subjection the Sarrastians bent And those whom Sarnus watereth forct to vield Them Rufus Batulus hold and Celen field And those fruit-bearing ' Bellas rampiers view Who darts in the Teutonick manner threw Their heads are arm'd with Cork-trees torn from vines They shine in brazen arms a brasse sword shines With thee to war from hilly Nursia came O Vfens blest in arms and great in fame A cruel race with huntings us'd to toyle In woods Aequicola a barren soyl These armed plow and alwayes love to drive Fresh prey and plunder and by rapine live Next came a priest of the Marubian race His helm green bowes of happy olive grace From King Archippus sent Vmbro most bold The vip rs blood and hissing serpents could By chaims or with his hand to sleep engage Their bitings cure and by his art asswage But for the Dardan spear no help he found Nor could a sleepy medicine ease the wound Nor all those herbs in Marsian mountains be Thee Angits grove Fucinus cleer waves thee Thee chrystal lakes have wept To war the fair race of Hippolitus went Virbius whom his mother Aritia sent To Aegeias groves in the Hymetian strand Where altars fat of pleas'd Diana stand After his stepdames art Hippolitus kill'd Paternal punishments with blood fulfil'd Torne by mad steeds T'etherial stars they fame And heavens supernal air again he came Restor'd by physick and Diana's love This much incensing the all-potent Jove A mortal from infernal shades should rise Phoebus son who so great skill did devise With thun er sent to Styx But Trivia Hypolitus did to fecret seats to convay And to Aegerian groves confin'd alone In Italian woods he finisht life unnkown Where by a chang'd name he was Virbius stild From Trivias fane groves sacred are exil'd All horses since the youth and 's chariot they Frighted orethrew to monsters of the sea No lesse his son did horses exercise And to the wars he in his chariot flies Among the first most beauteous Turnus led Marching in arms and taller by the head From his high crests three bushy horse-maines came Chimera there breathing Aetnean flame Then louder roars with fire more fiercely glowes When in hot fight blood in abundance flowes His polish'd shield Io with gold adorns A cow now cloath'd with hair and drest with horns Argus who kept the
thou shalt tell to Priam under-ground That here a new Achilles thou hast found He said whilst Pandarus boldly did advance And cast at him a rough and knottie lance The aire receivs the wound Juno being there Turns it and in the gate she fix'd the spear But this good sword which in my right hand I Command with so much strength thou shalt not flie Our weapons are not like nor shall the wound Then with his sword raising himself from ground He with a mighty blow his forehead cleaves And on his downy cheeks a huge gash leaves Shook with his mighty weight earth did resound He stretch'd his dying limbs upon the ground His arms besmear'd with brain his cloven head On both sides hung over each shoulder spread The Trojans flie routed with trembling feare And if the Conqueror straight had took that care T' have broke the bars and let his souldiers in To th' war and nation that day last had been But fury and mad love of slaughter him Drove raging ' gainst the foe And first he Gyges maim'd and Phalaris slew And spears from flyers snatch'd at them he threw For Juno did both strength and courage yield Halys he kills runs Phegeus through his shield Alcander Halias Noemon Prytanus slew Whilst hot in fight of this they nothing knew And Lynceus as he charg'd and others calls With his bright sword surpriz'd them on the walls Whose head and healmet cut off at one blow Tumbles far off Amycus then a foe To savage beasts none better could annoint Weapons then he with poison arm the point Clitius and Creteus next the Muses friend Creteus that lov'd the Muses verses pen'd Pleas'd with the Lyre he numbers set to strings And still of horse and arms and battels sings At last the Trojan leaders at the fame Of this great slaughter in to rescue came And up with Mnestheus bold Serestus bends They saw the foe and their amazed friends When Mnestheus said Where fly you where d' ye go What other strength or bulwarks do you know Shall one man sirs and round inclos'd with wals Escape and make so many funerals And such great numbers of prime men destroy Base cowards Of your selves and haplesse Troy Have you no pity blush you not with shame For your old gods and great Aeneas fame With words like these encourag'd boldly then In a thick body they drew up agen But Turnus by degrees retreats from them Toth ' river and those parts lay neer the stream At which more fierce the Trojans with a shout Presse boldly on and gather round about As when a troop a Lion hath beset With cruel spears he makes a brave retreit Although forbid by valour and by rage Nor can though willing ' gainst such power ingage So unresolv'd bold Turnus did retire Whilst in his bosome boyls a flood of ire Yet twice where foes were thickest on he falls And twice he drove that party from the walls When from the Camp in a full body made ' Gainst one th' whole army drew nor longer aide T' oppose such forces Juno durst supply For Jove had sent bright Iris from the sky Who to Saturnia carried strict commands That Turnus should escape the Trojan bands Therefore his shield and strength too weak he found Orewhelm'd with darts with showres of arrows drown'd His hollow cask which arm'd his temples grones And solid brasse gives way to battering stones His plumes are beaten off nor doth his targe Sustain the blowes nor thundring Mnestheus charge Whilst thick their javelins a whole army throwes No intermission then a salt sweat flowes Ore all his limbs and a black river glides And faint short-breathing shakes his ample sides At last with all his arms a leap he gave Into the stream which on his silver wave Receiv'd him and on yielding billows bore From slaughter cleans'd to 's friends on th' other shore THE TENTH BOOK OF VIRGIL'S AENEIS THE ARGUMENT Jove calls a Councel and declares the fates Venus complains Juno recriminates Aeneas Tarchon and the Tyrrhens joyn'd Their men aboard they saile with prosperous wind The martial List Ships turn'd to Nymphs appear And sad Aeneas with their counsel cheer Landed they fight the Plain huge slaughter fills Aeneas Lausus Turnus Pallas kills Shap'd like Aeneas a fantastick shade Turnus provokes and thence to sea convaide Mizentius to revenge his son again Entring the fight is by Aeneas slain MEan while heavens mighty courts are open when The father of the gods and king of men A counsel calls from starry thrones all lands He views the Dardan camps and Latian bands And thus all plac'd he said You deities Wherefore so often change you your decrees And why in sharp debates ars you thus hot Latium to war with Troy granted not Why this unlawfull strife what jealousies made Or these or them take arms to fight perswade Just time of war nor hasten it shall come When cruel Carthage to the towres of Rome Through open Alpes shall great destruction send Then may they all things spoile with hate contend But now desist and make a happy peace Jove brief but beauteous Venus answered these At large Father of men and gods eternal king For to none else may we petitions bring Thou seest how Rutils boast and Turnus rides Triumphing through the bands who bold now prides In wars successe nor Trojans wals defend But they within their gates and works contend With blood their trenches flow and now their Prince Aeneas absent wants intelligence Must we be still besieg'd must we again The walls of rising Troy ' gainst foes maintain More armies yet shall once more Diomed Against the Dardans his Aeolians lead Then I new wounds as I suppose must feel And I thy race be pierc'd with mortal steel If Trojans without leave for Latium made Let them be punish'd neither grant them aide But if they all those Oracles obey Which Gods and Manes gave who thy decree Can alter then or why new fates ordain Of our fir'd Navie why should I complain Nor of the King of tempests and those loud Storms which he rais'd nor Iris from a cloud And now the fiends which only were untride Of all the world she raiseth to her side And straight Alecto sent from Stygian waves Who now through all th' Ausonian Cities raves Nor am I mov'd for realms whilst fortune stood We hop'd let them now conquer thou think'st good If no land thy sterne wife grants them t' injoy By smokie ruines of consumed Troy Father I thee beseech from arms detain Ascanius safe preserv'd let him remain Aeneas may be tost through unknown seas And whatsoever course fortune shall please He may pursue Let me but save the boy Ah let not cruel war the child destroy Mine lorty Paphos mine Amathus is Cytherum and Idalian Palaces Let him unexercis'd in cruel strife Of dreadfull war there finish quiet life Command aspiring Carthage then to lay Huge taxes on subdu'd Ausonia And Tyrian Towrs that nothing shall debar What
us with furious Auster did surprise And on the rocks with conquering billowes bore A few of us swom hither to your shore What a strange Nation 's this what barbarous land Such customes use the hospitable strand We are denyd by force prohibited Upon the margents of your coasts to tread Aeneas was our King for pietie Justice and prowesse non more great then he Which man if fates preserve if yet he breath If cruell shades receive him not in death You need not feare nor shall you e're repent That you did us in courtesie prevent We have in Cicilie Cities Arms and Lands Where great Acestes sprung from Troy commands That we draw up our Navie condiscend To rigg them new tackling and oars to mend That if our King and friends be found then we May steere our course with joy for Italie And Latium seek But if no help be found And thou best Trojan Princei'th ' tempest drown'd Nor of Ascanius hope Sicanian roads Whence we sail'd hither and prepar'd aboads Old King Acestes we at last shall finde I leoneus said the Trojans with one minde Gave full applause Then Dido briefe and modestly declares O Trojans feare not and seclude your cares To settle our new State we find so hard That we our consines are inforc'd to guard Of Trojans who of Troy who ignorant are Those Worthies Valour fury of that War Tyrians are not so dull nor yet the Suns Chariot so distant from our City runs Seek you great Italie Saturnian lands Or Erix shores the King Acestes strands I 'le safe disinisse you and supply your want Will you alike with us this City plant This town I build is yours your ships forsake 'Twixt Tyrians Trojans I 'le no difference make Would the same wind had hither brought your Prince But I will issue forth Commands from hence That he be sought through all the Lybian coast Should he in Desarts be or Cities lost Achates and the King with these words fir'd Long since to break the gloomy clowd desir'd Then bold Achates to Aeneas said Great Goddesse son what doubts may now disswade Thy friends and ships all safe thou seest but one Which in our sight the raging Seas did drowne All sutes thy mothers words Scarce these he said When suddenly the circumsused shade Purg'd to thin aire and forth Aeneas stood His garb his face and person like a God Venus had trim'd his haire youths beauty dyes His cheeks she breath'd glad honours on his eyes So Ivory grac'd by art so Silver would Or Parian marble shew set in pure gold And sudden unexpected did appeare Then to the Queen I whom you seeke am here Trojan Aeneas scap't the Lybick Seas O thou alone pittying our miseries Who us Greeke reliques spent by various fates Of land and sea thou joyn'st associates To thee and thine we nor all Dardans straine Through great earth scatter'd can require againe The Gods if there be any Providence Or Justice will the pious recompence Sure must reward thee O! what age of worth What so great Parents such as thee brought forth Whiles convex'd hills have shadows to the maine Whilst rivers run whilst poles the stars sustaine Thy honour name and same shall last what land So-ever me invites Then his right hand I lioneus takes his left Sergestus meets Bold Gyas stout Cloanthus all he greets At the first sight Dido was much dismaid And wondring at so strange a story said What dangerous fate pursued thee Goddesse son What forc'd thee on these Barbarous shores to run Art thou Aeneas whom faire Venus bare Neer Symois streams Dardan Anchises heire Teucer I call to mind expel'd his land To Sidon came did Belus aid demand New Realms to gain my father then subdu'd Cyprus and conquerour held in servitude Since then I understood the Trojan fate Thy name and every Graecian Potentate He though a foe your valour did commend And said himself did from your stock descend Therefore bold Trojans to our Court advance We in such dangers tost and various chance At length our selves did in this countrey plant I know t' help others taught by my own want Then she Aeneas to the Court conveys And the Gods honours on the altars payes Next to the shores twenty fat beeves she sends With them a hundred swine to feast his friends And with the ews as many fatned lambs With wine Lyaeus joy But all within with royall pomp was grac'd And midst the Hall a stately feast they plac'd Wrought carpets with proud scarlet did infold Huge silver tables where was grav'd in gold Her Grandsires acts in a long series stood Drawn from so many Princes of the blood The King for love paternall never sleeps Sent down in hast Achates to the ships To tell this to Ascanius then repaire With him to Court who was his fathers care To bring gifts sav'd from Troy the long robe which Was purl'd with gold and with imbroideric rich A vail the edge with bright Acanthus wrought Fair Hellens dresse which she from Argos brought To Troy and fatall marriages set forth Her mother Laedas gift of wondrous worth The Scepter too which once Ilion bore Priams first daughter the Pearl-chain she wore And Coronet with gold and jemmes inchac'd For these Achates to the Fleet did haste But Venus now new arts new counsells took That Cupid should like young Ascanius look And in the furious Queen he might inspire The flames of love and pierce her bones with fire Double tongu'd Tyrians doubtfull house she fears Fierce Juno frights with night increast her cares Therefore to winged love she briefly said Deare son my strength deare son my chiefest aid Who only sleights great Jave's Typhoan fire I fly to thee suppliant thy aid require Thou knowst thy brother my Aeneas hath Felt on all Lands and Seas firce Juno's wrath And of our sorrow hadst as great a sence Him Dido courts and stayes with blandishments Junonian entertainments I suspect Nor she so great occasion will neglect Therefore I plot first to deceive and bind The Queen with flames lest some power change her mind That she with me Aeneas love involve Which to effect know this is my resolve The Royall boy for Carthage do's prepare By his dear Father call'd my greatest care Brings gifts preserv'd from Troyes flame and the deep In high Cytherum him I le cast asleep And in Idalium's sacred mansions lay Left he appearing should our plot betray Assume his form onely one nights short space Use art a boy put on a boyes known face That when glad Dido hugs thee at her lap At royall feasts crown'd with the cheering grape When she imbracing shall sweet kisses give Inspire hid flame with deadly bane deceive His mother love obeys his wings he leaves And joyfully Ascanius garbe receives But Vâ—nus through Julus limbes distills Sweet sleep and bears to the Idalian hills And in soft Marjerom the boy she layd Whose flowers imbrac'd him with a pleasant shade But Cuptd then his mothers will
realms they fame To swift wings trusting boldly through the skies A way untracted to the cold North flies At last on Chalcis towre he stands where he First lighting Phoebus gave his wings to thee And a large Temple built whose porch presents Androgeus death Athenian punishments A wofull thing leven children the demands Annually paid with lots the sad urne stands Crete that survayes the Sea was opposite A bulls dire love Pasiphaes stolne delight The mix'd race Minotaure his Monstrous son The monument of her foule lust was done The structure and the Labyrinth here was seen But Daedalus pitying th'inamor'd Qneen The art and windings of that house betraies Shewing the clew thou Icarus in these Shouldst a great part had grief permitted shar'd To draw thy chance in gold he twice prepar d Twice fell the fathers hands Soon the whole frame They had survaâ—d but that Achates came And did the priestesse of great Phoebus bring Deiphobe who thus bespake the King This is no time such sights to entertain Then bids seaven steers from untouch'd heards be slaine And as the custome equall sheep be paid Having said there the rites were not delaid And bids the Twojaus to the Temple come A cave was cut from a rocks vaster wombe Whence through a hundred gates a hundred ways Sybil as many prophesies convayes As he drew neer the Virgin cries Be bold To ask thy fate The god the god behold This said her colour chang'd nor had her face And comely tresses the same form or grace But her swoln bosome pants a mighty rage Doth all the faculties of her soul engage Nor humane voice greater she seems to be Inspired with th' approaching Deitie Trojan Aeneas then aloud she said Hast thou not made thy vowes hast thou not praid Nor vast gates of the fatal house till then Shall open Here she silent was agen And through the Trojans bones shot trembling feare Whilst from his soul the King powrs forth his prayer O Phoebus thou that strov'st still to protect Unhappy Troy and didst the shaft direct And Paris hand to wound Aeacides I led by thee strange lands and many seas To the remote Massylian shores have past And realms extended unto deserts vast We Italies flying coasts at length have took But by our own sad fortune not forsook And all you Gods and Goddesses that were Foes to Troy's glory now that nation spare And you blest Prophetesse humbly I intreat I seek but realms are due to me by fate That we in Latium may find new abodes And habitations for our wand ring gods I then to Phoebus and Diana shall A temple build of marble where I le call On solemn dayes on great Apollo's name And in our realm Chappels for thee I le frame In which the fates and fortunes of our race Which pleas'd you now foretell shall have their place And there blest maid I le consecrate choise men Commit not unto leaves thy verses then Lest they to wanton winds a sport be made But sing thy self I pray He ends this said But in the cave she furious takes no rest Striving to shake the great God from her brest Who tires her more her raging mouth he frames And by constraining her fierce bosome tames The hundred gates themselves now open fling And through the aire Sibylla's answer bring Thou scap'd from dangers of the sea far more Remain at land the Trojans shall the shore Of Latium find thy breast from such cares free And soon repent Wars horrid wars I see And Tyber swell'd with blood nor shalt thou misse Greek camps a Xanthus and a Symois A new Achilles of a Goddesse come And you shall Juno find in Latium What people what Italian seats in want Shalt thou not sue to as a suppliant A wife shall cause again the Trojan woe And forrain marriage Yet dangers fear not but on bolder goe What course thy fortune grants thy first supplies Which thou least thinks from a Greek seat shall rise These horrid circumstances from her cell Cumean Sibyl bellowing did foretell With dark phrase clouding truth then Phoebus shakes His reins and her chaf'd heart more fury takes When she grew calme and her wild rage alaid Aeneas spake Not any toyle O Maid To me an new unlook'd for shape presents I foresee all and cast their worst events One boone I crave since to infernall realms This way conducts and Acherons dismal streames That I my dearest father may behold Open the way inchaunted gates unfold Him I from thousand weapons through the flame Brought on my shoulders through an hoast I came He me accompanied through all the maine And weake did threatning seas and skyes â—â—â—taine Above the strength and temper of his age Us at thy gates t' attend he did ingage O pitie then the father and the sonne Blest Maid for all things can by thee be done Nor Hecate plac'd thee ore those groves in vaine If Orpheus could Eurydice regaine Help'd by his Thracian lyres sweet harmony Could Pollux by alternate dying free His brother and returne why should I name Theseus Alcides that from Jove I came Such things he pray'd and by the altars hung Then she replyde Trojan Aeneas sprung From blood of Gods to hel's an easie way Black Pluto's gates stand open night And day But to return and the bright aire to view This is the worke the labour of a few Whom Jove esteems or vertue hath rais'd high And sprung from Gods Woods in the middle lie And round Cocytus motes with a black lake If so great love if such desires thee take Twice to swim Styx black hell twice to survay And to strange toyles th' art pleas'd to give such way Hear thy first task A golden bough doth lie With shining leaves hid in a shady tree Sacred t'infernall Juno this is said This the whole woods and obscure valleys shade To visit parts below all are restrain'd Untill the bough with golden leaves is gain'd Which to fair Proserpine must presented be This pluck'd another golden from the tree Sprouts with like metal with your eye search round And breake it gently off when it is found If fates call thee it will with ease be gain'd Else not by â—y violence constrain'd Nor shall by thee with hardest steele be got But now thy dead friend ah thou knowst it not The whole fleet with his corps contaminates Whilst thou consulting at our threshold waits Him first in quiet shade intombe then bring Black sheep an expiating offering Darke reasms deny de the living thou mayst then Behold This said she silent was agen Aeneas with fix'd eyes and sad lookes went And leaves the cave musing the sad event Faithfull Achates his companion goes With equall steps dividing equall woes Betwixt themselves many conjectures whom She meant was dead what corps they should intombe When as they go they saw Misenus left On the dry shore by a sad death bereft Misenus none more excellent was found T inflame to battell by his trumpets sound
Ausonian lands Nor can the Trojans blood-lesse victory boast They have their funerals and as many lost Why then at first so poorly lose we ground And tremble ere we hear the trumpet sound The various work of time and many days Often affairs from worse to better raise Fortune reviewing those she hath cast down Sporting restores again unto their crown Will not Aetolians give their aid to us Messapus will and rich Tolumnius And prime Commanders many more will send Nor small fame on Laurentian Lords attend Camilla of the noble Volscean line Leads troops of horse who all in armour shine If me to fight the Trojan doth command And I alone the common good withstand So far from me victory not took her flight I should refuse for such a prize to fight I 'le meet him had he great Achilles charms And let him have like him Vulcanian arms To you great King this life I Turnus now Second to none of my great fathers vow Aeneas cals me forth that he may call Is my desire nor Drances rather shall Whether it be the wrath of deities Appease by death or glory win the prize Whilst these hard questions thus debared were With differing votes the Trojan Prince drew near Which to the Court a speedy messenger brought And with strange terror the whole city fraught All are distracted but the vulgar rage Whom no small Provocations did ingage Arme arme they cry the youth are mad for Arms The old men silent mourn here there alarms With factious tumults mix'd ascend the sky As when by chance a flock of sea-fowl flie To lofty groves or when loud swans do go Sounding through murmuring lakes to pleasant Poe. On this occasion Sirs then Turnus sayes Call counsels yes and Peace thus sitting praise Whilst they the town invade Nor more he spoke But streight the hall and lofty Courts forsook Volusus draw forth now thy Voscean force And dear Messapus let thy Rutile horse Joyn'd with thy brothers march to th' open plain Let some make good the gates and towrs maintain Those in my conduct forth with me shall go Straight to the wals the towns whole forces flow The king his councell and designe forsook And vex't with stirs for better times did look Blaming himself that he did not declare The Trojan Prince his son and make his heir Some trench the gates these Pallisado round For war loud trumpets bloody signals sound Women and children to the wals are sent All must assist in this great exigent When bearing gifts the sad Queen with a train Of matrons went to Pallas lofty fane Next her the virgin fair Lavinia goes Those eyes dejected had procur'd such woes The matrons enter and the quire perfume And with sad voices from high portals come Pallas arm'd virgin Patronesse of war O break thy self the Phrygian Pirats spear Most warlike maid tumble him to the ground And near our gates give him his deadly wound Whilst Turnus for the battel arms in haste And rough with brazen scales straight on he brac'd Rut ilian arms and golden cuishes tide His head unarm'd a sword girds to his side Shining in gold then quits the lofty towres And in his hope the enemy devoures So when a horse flies out in broken reins And stables left enjoyes the open plains Either through meads he seeks a stud of mares Or to accustom'd watering repairs Wanton his head erected loud he neighs His mane upon his neck and shoulder plays Camilla meets him with her Volscean force And bravely in the gates leaps from her horse Then all the squadrons imitate the maid And quit their steeds Bold Turnus then she said If any confidence of the valiant be To charge the foe I dare and promise thee Alone the Tyrrhen horsmen to defie Grant that I first may charge the enemy Let your force guard the walls Then Turnus said Fixing his eye upon the valiant maid Bold Virgin glory of Ausonia These great obligements how shall I repay But now since all the danger of the war Thy soul contemns with me the honour share Aenaeas as fame tels and scouts inform Through th'plains light-horse hath sent to give th' alarm Whilst from the rocks and mountains he comes down With the main body to assault the town An ambush in the woods I have design'd And in the passe the hedges strongly lin'd Messapus shall and Tyburt march with thee And to thy care shall the whole conduct be Messapus and the other Leaders so Encouraged they march against the so There is a winding vale for feats of war And ambush fit the dark sides sheltred are With a thick wood where leads a narrow path Through a strait passe and dangerous entrance hath Above the valley in the mountains heights Lay unfrequented plains and safe retreats If on the right or left thou wouldst come on Or guard the top and huge stones tumble down Mean while Diana from superior seats Swift Opis cals one of her virgin mates And sacred train and thus her grief declares The maid Camilla goes to cruel wars And with our arms she girds her self in vain More dear to us then any of our train Nor new acquaintance takes me with her love Which doth the mind with sudden sweetnesse move Metabus drove from 's realm by force and hate When he Privernus left his antient seat Scaping through fierce alarms of cruel war With him the infant did companion bear And from her mothers name the change but small Casmilla did the child Camilla call Her in his lap he seeks the highest parts Of desert woods opprest with cruel darts Which from each side came from the Volscean ranks When Amasenus had oreflown his banks And with a huge showre swelling hindred him He careful of his charge prepar'd to swim Delaid with her dear love all means revolves And suddenly at last on this resolves The warriour then in his strong hand did beare Of solid oke a huge and knotty speare His daughter swadling up in cork-tree rinds Fast to the middle of his lance he binds Then poising it in 's large hand thus he praid Great Queen of forrests blest Latonian maid To thee the father doth this handmaid vow Bearing thy arms through skies a suppliant now To scape the foe Goddesse receive thy own Which to th' inconstant winds is left alone Thus having said with mighty strength he flung The sounding spear the swelling billows rung And poor Camilla the wing'd javelin bore Ore the swift stream safe to the other shore But Metabus as th' enemy drew neer Swam ore the river pulling with the spear The maid ' Diana's Votresse from the shore Nor dwelt he in wall'd towns or cities more Displeas'd with vulgar rage and popular strife But in high mountains led a shepherds life Where in dark caves and groves the child he fed And with the milk of wild mares fostered Draining betwixt her prety lips the teat When she her tender feet to ground could set He loads her hand with a sharp
infant brows adorn Let him not draw his Trojans to the field Let both the armies to cessation yield With our own blood this war we shall decide There let him strive to gain the royall bride This said he went to see his horse their plight And fiery mettall gave him much delight Which Orythia gave Pilumus who exceed The snow in whitenesse and the wind in speed The grooms attend they clap their necks and rein Their well born heads and combe the flowing main Next on he tride a sute of armour which Was bright with gold with Orycalcus rich Then puts his sword on and his target brac'd And fits his crest with bloody feathers grac'd Vulcan the sword for 's father Daunus made And hot in Stygian waters cool'd the blade Then to a stately hall he did advance Where ' gainst a pillar stood a mighty lance Aruncian Actors spoyle this down he took And speaking thus with mighty violence shook O never failing when I made my prayer The time draws nigh thou once wert Actors spear And now art mine O grant I may orethrow Th' effeminate Phrygian and this hand the foe Dispoyl of armes with dust his tresses soyl Cnrl'd with hot irons and moist with myrrhe and oyl Thus mov'd with rage through all his face did rise Sparkles of flame fire shines in his bright eyes As when a bull roars dreadful'y for fight And doth his fury with his hornes excite Charging a tree out-braves the winde with blows And sand praeludium to the combate strows Then rag'd Aeneas in Vulcanian arms And whets his wrath preparing for alarms Glad thus to end the war his son and friends To comfort them he shews what fate intends Then he commands some to the King should bear Th'accepted challenge and should peace declare Scarce had the morning crown'd with golden rayes The hils when Phoebus steeds forsook the seas And from their fiery nostrils blew the light When neer the city wall lists for the fight Trojans and Rutiles measuring did prepare Hearths in the midst and flowry altars were To common gods Some water fire defign'd With linnen vail'd Vervaine their brows did bind Ausonian squadrons and the piled troop March from the town and Trojans all drew up And Tyrrhen squadrons hast with various arms Standing imbattel'd ready for alarms Amidst the chiefs in scarlet shine and gold Assaracus off-spring Mnestheus and the bold Asylas with Messapus next took place Messapus bravely mounted Neptunes race The signals heard all cleer th' appointed fields On earth they fix their spears and rest their shields Feeble old men and fearful women haste With the unarmed vulgar where well plac'd The fight they might behold on towres some get Or houses tops on battlements these sit But Juno looking from a hill whose name Is Alban now then without stile or fame Did the whole army of the Latines view The Trojans and the royal city too When thus the goddesse to a goddesse said Who Turnus sister was whom floods obey'd Which gift Jove gave king of the starry sky In recompence of her virginity Nymph glory of the floods whom most I love Of all those Latine dames aspir'd to Jove 's Ungrateful bed and plac'd in heaven with me Lest us thou blame thy sad condition see Whilst fortune pleas'd and fate to Latium gave Successe I Turnus and thy walls did save Now cruel fates attend the youth and I Behold his day and woful chance draw nigh Nor I this peace nor combatants will view If ought thou dar'st now for a brother do Perhaps some better fortune may arise Scarce said when tears poure from Juturna's eyes Beating her snowy breast Then Juno said This is no time to weep thy brother aid And save if now thou canst raise war again And break the peace I 'le the bold act maintain Advising thus she left her much distrest And deep the wounding sorrow pierc'd her breast Mean while both Kings draw forth in solemn state Latinus in a gallant chariot sate Twelve golden rayes impail'd his shining browes Declaring Sol his grandsire Turnus goes With white steeds drawn and shakes two mighty spears Aeneas Romes original appears Bright in celestial arms with him did come Ascanius the next great hope of Rome The priest in white did fleecie sheep designe And the fat ofspring of the brisled swine And cattel to the flaming altars brought They to the rising sun their hands well fraught With salt fruit turn their eyes beasts for divine Uses they take and on their foreheads signe And with full bowls and offerings th' altars lade Then with a drawn sword Prince Aeneas prayd Witnesse O sun this Farth confirm the same For which I through so many troubles came Great Jove and Juno who will now declare For us I crave and thou great God of war Who still in dreadful battels governst all The sacred springs and fountains you I call And mighty powers which in high heaven reside And gods which on the azure billows glide If Turnus fortune shall the victory get We shall return to King Evanders seat Nor my Ascanius nor the Trojan bands Bear arms against you nor invade these lands But if my valour to me conquest give Which may the Gods connrm and I believe Latines shall not the Trojan power obey I seek not rule together they shall sway With equal lawe and leagues eternal make I 'le joyn our gods and let Latinus take The power himself for me the Trojans shall A city build which I le Lavinium call Aeneas said then thus Latinus prayes And looking up to heaven his hands did raise By the same earth and sea and stars I vow The sun and moon and Janus double brow And deepest gates of hell Great Jove hear these Who with thy thunder dost establish peace Altars and fires I touch and powers invoke Never by us shall this our league be broke Whatever chance do fall no day shall tell That I was drawn to break one article First shall the earth be with a deluge drown'd Or heaven shall sink into the Strgian sound And as this scepter he a scepter bore Never shall sprout with verdant branches more Which long cut down no sap from earth recei es And hath to th' axe bequeath'd both boughs and leaves Which once a tree now gold and art adorn And is by princes of the Latines born Thus they confirm the leagues in open view Of all the chiefs and sacred cattel slew Then from the beasts alive hot entrails pull And load the altars with huge chargers full But to the Rutiles now the fight appears Unequal who are mov'd with various fears And more when they him not so cheerfull saw With heavy pace neer to the altar draw And cast down looks who whilst heavens aid he seeks Had lost the manly colour in his cheeks This observation as Juturna viewd To spread and seise the giddy multitude Camerta's form she takes whose grandsire won And rathers valour honour for the son And he himself most