The sailes of foulded Lawne where shall be wrought The warres of Troy but not Troyes ouerthrow For ballace emptie Didos treasurie Take what ye will but leaue Aeneas here Achates thou shalt be so meanly clad As Seaborne Nymphes shall swarme about thy ships And wanton Mermaides court thee with sweete songs Flinging in fauours of more soueraigne worth Then Thetis hangs about Apolloes necke So that Aeneas may but stay with me Aen. Wherefore would Dido haue Aeneas stay Dido To warre against my bordering enemies Aeneas thinke not Dido is in loue For if that any man could conquer me I had been wedded ere Aeneas came See where the pictures of my suiters hang And are not these as faire as faire may be Acha. I saw this man at Troy ere Troy was sackt Aen. I this in Greece when Paris stole faire Helen Illio. This man and I were at Olympus games Serg. I know this face he is a Persian borne I traueld with him to Aetolia Cloan. And I in Athens with this gentleman Vnlesse I be deceiu'd disputed once Dido But speake Aeneas know you none of these Aen. No Madame but it seemes that these are Kings Dido All those and others which I neuer sawe Haue been most vrgent suiters for my loue Some came in person others sent their Legats Yet none obtaind me I am free from all And yet God knowes intangled vnto one This was an Orator and thought by words To compasse me but yet he was deceiu'd And this a Spartan Courtier vaine and wilde But his fantastick humours pleasde not me This was Alcion a Musition But playd he nere so sweet I let him goe This was the wealthie King of Thessaly But I had gold enough and cast him off This Meleagers sonne a warlike Prince But weapons gree not with my tender yeares The rest are such as all the world well knowes Yet how I sweare by heauen and him I loue I was as farre from loue as they from hate Aen. O happie shall he be whom Dido loues Dido Then neuer say that thou art miserable Because it may be thou shalt be my loue Yet boast not of it for I loue thee not And yet I hate thee not O if I speake I shall betray my selfe Aeneas speake We two will goe a hunting in the woods But not so much for thee thou art but one As for Achates and his followers Exeunt Enter Iuno to Ascanius asleepe Iuno Here lyes my hate Aeneas cursed brat The boy wherein false destinie delights The heire of furie the fauorite of the face That vgly impe that shall outweare my wrath And wrong my deitie with high disgrace But I will take another order now And race th' eternall Register of time Troy shall no more call him her second hope Not Venus triumph in his tender youth For here in spight of heauen I le murder him And feede infection with his left out life Say Paris now shall Venus haue the ball Say vengeance now shall her Ascanius dye O no God wot I cannot watch my time Nor quit good turnes with double fee downe told Tut I am simple without made to hurt And haue no gall at all to grieue my foes But lustfull Ioue and his adulterous child Shall finde it written on confusions front That onely Iuno rules in Rhamnuse towne Enter Venus Venus What should this meane my Doues are back returnd Who warne me of such daunger prest at hand To harme my sweete Ascanius louely life Iuno my mortall foe what make you here Auaunt old witch and trouble not my wits Iuno Fie Venus that such causeles words of wrath Should ere defile so faire a mouth as thine Are not we both sprong of celestiall rase And banquet as two Sisters with the Gods Why is it then displeasure should disioyne Whom kindred and acquaintance counites Venus Out hatefull hag thou wouldst haue slaine my sonne Had not my Doues discou'rd thy entent But I will teare thy eyes fro forth thy head And feast the birds with their bloud-shotten balles If thou but lay thy fingers on my boy Iuno Is this then all the thankes that I shall haue For sauing him from Snakes and Serpents stings That would haue kild him sleeping as he lay What though I was offended with thy sonne And wrought him mickle woe on sea and land When for the hate of Troian Ganimed That was aduanced by my Hebes shame And Paris iudgement of the heauenly ball I mustred all the windes vnto his wracke And vrg'd each Element to his annoy Yet now I doe repent me of his ruth And wish that I had neuer wrongd him so Bootles I sawe it was to warre with fate That hath so many vnresisted friends Wherefore I chaunge my counsell with the time And planted loue where enuie erst had sprong Venus Sister of Ioue if that thy loue be such As these thy protestations doe paint forth We two as friends one fortune will deuide Cupid shall lay his arrowes in thy lap And to a Scepter chaunge his golden shafts Fancie and modestie shall liue as mates And thy faire peacockes by my pigeons pearch Loue my Aeneas and desire is thine The day the night my Swannes my sweetes are thine Iuno More then melodious are these words to me That ouercloy my soule with their content Venus sweete Venus how may I deserue Such amourous fauours at thy beautious hand But that thou maist more easilie perceiue How highly I doe prize this amitie Harke to a motion of eternall league Which I will make in quittance of thy loue Thy sonne thou knowest with Dido now remaines And feedes his eyes with fauours of her Court She likewise in admyring spends her time And cannot talke nor thinke of ought but him Why should not they then ioyne in marriage And bring forth mightie Kings to Carthage towne Whom casualtie of sea hath made such friends And Venus let there be a match confirmd Betwixt these two whose loues are so alike And both our Deities conioynd in one Shall chaine felicitie vnto their throne Venus Well could I like this reconcilements meanes But much I feare my sonne will nere consent Whose armed soule alreadie on the sea Darts forth her light to Lauinias shoare Iuno Faire Queene of loue I will deuorce these doubts And finde the way to wearie such fond thoughts This day they both a hunting forth will ride Into these woods adioyning to these walles When in the midst of all their game some sports I le make the Clowdes dissolue their watrie workes And drench Siluanus dwellings with their shewers Then in one Caue the Queene and he shall meete And interchangeably discourse their thoughts Whose short conclusion will seale vp their hearts Vnto the purpose which we now propound Venus Sister I see you sauour of my wiles Be it as you will haue for this once Meane time Ascanius shall be my charge Whom I will beare to Ida in mine armes And couch him in Adonis purple downe Exeunt Enter Dido Aeneas
Anna Iarbus Achates and followers Dido Aeneas thinke not but I honor thee That thus in person goe with thee to hunt My princely robes thou seest are layd aside Whose glittering pompe Dianas shrowdes supplies All fellowes now disposde alike to sporte The woods are wide and we haue store of game Faire Troian hold my golden bowe a while Vntill I gird my quiuer to my side Lords goe before we two must talke alone Iar. Vngentle can she wrong Iarbus so I le dye before a stranger haue that grace We two will talke alone what words be these Dido What makes Iarbus here of all the rest We could haue gone without your companie Aen. But loue and duetie led him on perhaps To presse beyond acceptance to your sight Iar. Why man of Troy doe I offend thine eyes Or art thou grieude thy betters presse so nye Dido How now Getulian are ye growne so braue To challenge vs with your comparisons Pesant goe seeke companions like thy selfe And meddle not with any that I loue Aeneas be not moude at what he sayes For otherwhile he will be out of ioynt Iar. Women may wrong by priuiledge of loue But should that man of men Dido except Haue taunted me in these opprobrious termes I would haue either drunke his dying bloud Or els I would haue giuen my life in gage Dido Huntsmen why pitch you not your toyles apace And rowse the light foote Deere from forth their laire Anna Sister see see Ascanius in his pompe Bearing his huntspeare brauely in his hand Dido Yea little sonne are you so forward now Asca. I mother I shall one day be a man And better able vnto other armes Meane time these wanton weapons serue my warre Which I will breake betwixt a Lyons jawes Dido What darest thou looke a Lyon in the face Asca. I and outface him to doe what he can Anna How like his father speaketh he in all Aen. And mought I liue to see him sacke rich Thebes And loade his speare with Grecian Princes heads Then would I wish me with Anchises Tombe And dead to honour that hath brought me vp Iar. And might I liue to see thee shipt away And hoyst aloft on Neptunes hideous hilles Then would I wish me in faire Didos armes And dead to soone that hath pursued me so Aen. Stoute friend Achates doest thou know this wood Acha. As I remember here you shot the Deere That sau'd your famisht souldiers liues from death When first you set your foote vpon the shoare And here we met faire Venus virgine like Bearing her bowe and quiuer at her backe Aen. O how these irksome labours now delight And ouerioy my thoughts with their escape Who would not vndergoe all kind of toyle To be well stor'd with such a winters tale Dido Aeneas leaue these dumpes and le ts away Some to the mountaines some vnto the soyle You to the vallies thou vnto the house Exeunt omnes manent Iar. I this it is which wounds me to the death To see a Phrigian far set to the sea Preferd before a man of maiesties O loue O hate O cruell womens hearts That imitate the Moone in euery chaunge And like the Planets euer loue to raunge What shall I doe thus wronged with disdaine Reuenge me on Aeneas or on her On her fond man that were to warre gainst heauen And with one shaft prouoke ten thousand darts This Troians end will be thy enuies aime Whose bloud will reconcile thee to content And make loue drunken with thy sweete desire But Dido that now holdeth him so deare Will dye with very tidings of his death But time will discontinue her content And mould her minde vnto newe fancies shapes O God of heauen turne the hand of fate Vnto that happie day of my delight And then what then Iarbus shall but loue So doth he now though not with equall gaine That resteth in the riuall of thy paine Who nere will cease to soare till he be slaine Exit The storme Enter Aeneas and Dido in the Caue at seuerall times Dido Aeneas Aen. Dido Dido Tell me deare loue how found you out this Caue Aen. By chance sweete Queene as Mars and Venus met Dido Why that was in a net where we are loose And yet I am not free oh would I were Aen. Why what is it that Dido may desire And not obtaine be it in humaine power Dido The thing that I will dye before I aske And yet desire to haue before I dye Aen. It is not ought Aeneas may atchieue Dido Aeneas no although his eyes doe pearce Aen. What hath Iarbus angred her in ought And will she be auenged on his life Dido Not angred me except in angring thee Aen. Who then of all so cruell may he be That should detaine thy eye in his defects Dido The man that I doe eye where ere I am Whose amorous face like Pean sparkles fire When as he buts his beames on Floras bed Prometheus hath put on Cupids shape And I must perish in his burning armes Aeneas O Aeneas quench these flames Aen. What ailes my Queene is she falne sicke of late Dido Not sicke my loue but sicke I must conceale The torment that it bootes me not reueale And yet I le speake and yet I le hold my peace Doe shame her worst I will disclose my griefe Aeneas thou art he what did I say Something it was that now I haue forgot Aen. What meanes faire Dido by this doubtfull speech Dido Nay nothing but Aeneas loues me not Aen. Aeneas thoughts dare not ascend so high As Didos heart which Monarkes might not scale Dido It was because I sawe no King like thee Whose golden Crowne might ballance my content But now that I haue found what to effect I followe one that loueth fame for me And rather had seeme faire Sirens eyes Then to the Carthage Queene that dyes for him Aen. If that your maiestie can looke so lowe As my despised worths that shun all praise With this my hand I giue to you my heart And vow by all the Gods of Hospitalitie By heauen and earth and my faire brothers bowe By Paphos Capys and the purple Sea From whence my radiant mother did descend And by this Sword that saued me from the Greekes Neuer to leaue these newe vpreared walles Whiles Dido liues and rules in Iunos towne Neuer to like or loue any but her Dido What more then delian musicke doe I heare That calles my soule from forth his liuing seate To moue vnto the measures of delight Kind clowdes that sent forth such a curteous storme As made disdaine to flye to fancies lap Stoute loue in mine armes make thy Italy Whose Crowne and kingdome rests at thy commande Sicheus not Aeneas be thou calde The King of Carthage not Anchises sonne Hold take these Iewels at thy Louers hand These golden bracelets and this wedding ring Wherewith my husband woo'd me yet a maide And be thou king of Libia by my guift Exeunt to the Caus.
And yet I may not stay Dido farewell Dido Farewell is this the mends for Didos loue Doe Troians vse to quit their Louers thus Fare well may Dido so Aeneas stay I dye if my Aeneas say farewell Aen. Then let me goe and neuer say farewell Let me goe farewell I must from hence Dido These words are poyson to poore Didos soule O speake like my Aeneas like my loue Why look'st thou toward the sea the time hath been When Didos beautie chaungd thine eyes to her Am I lesse faire then when thou sawest me first O then Aeneas t is for griefe of thee Say thou wilt stay in Carthage with my Queene And Didos beautie will returne againe Aeneas say how canst thou take thy leaue Wilt thou kisse Dido O thy lips haue sworne To stay with Dido canst thou take her hand Thy hand and mine have plighted mutuall faith Therefore vnkind Aeneas must thou say Then let me goe and neuer say farewell Aen. O Queene of Carthage wert thou vgly blacke Aeneas could not choose but hold thee deare Yet must he not gainsay the Gods behest Dido The Gods what Gods be those that seeke my death Wherein haue I offended Iupiter That he should take Aeneas from mine armes O no the Gods wey not what Louers doe It is Aeneas calles Aeneas hence And wofull Dido by these blubbred cheekes By this right hand and by our spousall rites Desires Aeneas to remaine with her Si bene quid de te merui fuit aut tibi quidquam Dulce meum miserere domus labentis istam Oro si quis ad haec precibus locus exue mentem Aen. Desine meque tuis incendere teque querelis Italiam non sponte sequor Dido Hast thou forgot how many neighbour kings Were vp in armes for making thee my loue How Carthage did rebell Iarbus storme And all the world calles me a second Helen For being intangled by a strangers lookes So thou wouldst proue as true as Paris did Would as faire Troy was Carthage might be sackt And I be calde a second Helena Had I a sonne by thee the griefe were lesse That I might see Aeneas in his face Now if thou goest what canst thou leaue behind But rather will augment then case my woe Aen. In vaine my loue thou spendst thy fainting breath If words might moue me I were ouercome Dido And wilt thou not be mou'd with Didos words Thy mother was no Goddesse periurd man Nor Dardanus the author of thy flocke But thou art sprung from Scythian Caucasus And Tygers of Hircania gaue thee sucke Ah foolish Dido to forbeare this long Wast thou not wrackt vpon this Libian shoare And cam'st to Dido like a Fisher swaine Repairde not I thy ships made thee a King And all thy needie followers Noblemen O Serpent that came creeping from the shoare And I for pitie harbord in my bosome Wilt thou now flay me with thy venomed sting And hisse at Dido for preseruing thee Goe goe and spare not seeke out Italy I hope that that which loue forbids me doe The Rockes and Sea-gulfes will performe at large And thou shalt perish in the billowes waies To whom poore Dido doth bequeath reuenge I traytor and the waues shall cast thee vp Where thou and false Achates first set foote Which if it chaunce I le giue ye buriall And weepe vpon your liueles carcases Though thou nor he will pitie me a whit Why star'st thou in my face if thou wilt stay Leape in mine armes mine armes are open wide If not turne from me and I le turne from thee For though thou hast the heart to say farewell I haue not power to stay thee is he gone I but hee le come againe he cannot goe He loues me to too well to serue me so Yet he that in my sight would not relent Will being absent be obdurate still By this is he got to the water side And see the Sailers take him by the hand But he shrinkes backe and now remembring me Returnes amaine welcome welcome my loue But where 's Aeneas ah hee s gone hee s gone Anna What meanes my sister thus to raue and crye Dido O Anna my Aeneas is abourd And leauing me will saile to Italy Once didst thou goe and he came backe againe Now bring him backe and thou shalt be a Queene And I will liue a priuate life with him Anna Wicked Aeneas Dido Call him not wicked sister speake him faire And looke vpon him with a Mermaides eye Tell him I neuer vow'd at Aulis gulfe The desolation of his natiue Troy Nor sent a thousand ships vnto the walles Nor euer violated faith to him Request him gently Anna to returne I craue but this he stay a tide or two That I may learne to beare it patiently If he depart thus suddenly I dye Run Anna run stay not to answere me Anna I goe faire sister heauens graunt good successe Exit Anna Enter the Nurse Nurse O Dido your little sonne Ascanius Is gone he lay with me last night And in the morning he was stolne from me I thinke some Fairies haue beguiled me Dido O cursed hagge and false dissembling wretch That slayest me with thy harsh and hellish tale Thou for some pettie guift hast let him goe And I am thus deluded of my boy Away with her to prison presently Traytoresse too keend and cursed Sorceresse Nurse I know not what you meane by treason I I am as true as any one of yours Exeunt the Nurse Dido Away with her suffer her not to speake My sister comes I like not her sad lookes Enter Anna Anna Before I came Aeneas was abourd And spying me hoyst vp the sailes amaine But I cride out Aeneas false Aeneas stay Then gan he wagge his hand which yet held vp Made me suppose he would haue heard me speake Then gan they driue into the Ocean Which when I viewd I cride Aeneas stay Dido faire Dido wils Aeneas stay Yet he whose heart of adamant or flint My teares nor plaints could mollifie a whit Then carelesly I rent my haire for griefe Which seene to all though he beheld me not They gan to moue him to redresse my ruth And stay a while to heare what I could say But he clapt vnder hatches saild away Dido O Anna Anna I will follow him Anna How can ye goe when he hath all your fleete Dido He frame me wings of waxe like Icarus And ore his ships will soare vnto the Sunne That they may melt and I fall in his armes Or els I le make a prayer vnto the waues That I may swim to him like Tritons neece O Anna fetch Orions Harpe That I may tice a Dolphin to the shoare And ride vpon his backe vnto my loue Looke sister looke louely Aeneas ships See see the billowes heaue him vp to heauen And now downe falles the keeles into the deepe O sister sister take away the Rockes Thei le breake his ships O Proteus Neptune Ioue Saue saue Aeneas Didos leefest loue Now is he come on shoare safe without hurt But see Achates wils him put to sea And all the Sailers merrie make for ioy But he remembring me shrinkes backe againe See where he comes welcome welcome my loue Anna Ah sister leaue these idle fantasies Sweet sister cease remember who you are Dido Dido I am vnlesse I be deceiu'd And must I raue thus for a runnagate Must I make ships for him to saile away Nothing can beare me to him but a ship And he hath all thy fleete what shall I doe But dye in furie of this ouersight I I must be the murderer of my selfe No but I am not yet I will be straight Anna be glad now haue I found a meane To rid me from these thoughts of Lunacie Not farre from hence there is a woman famoused for arts Daughter vnto the Nimphs Hesperides Who wild me sacrifize his ticing relliques Goe Anna bid my seruants bring me fire Exit Anna Enter Iarbus Iar. How long will Dido mourne a strangers flight That hath dishonord her and Carthage both How long shall I with griefe consume my daies And reape no guerdon for my truest loue Dido Iarbus talke not of Aeneas let him goe Lay to thy hands and helpe me make a fire That shall consume all that this stranger left For I entend a priuate Sacrifize To cure my minde that melts for vnkind loue Iar. But afterwards will Dido graunt me loue Dido I I Iarbus after this is done None in the world shall haue my loue but thou So leaue me now let none approach this place Exit Iarbus Now Dido with these reliques burne thy selfe And make Aeneas famous through the world For periurie and slaughter of a Queene Here lye the Sword that in the darksome Caue He drew and swore by to be true to me Thou shalt burne first thy crime is worse then his Here lye the garment which I cloath'd him in When first he came on shoare perish thou to These letters lines and periurd papers all Shall burne to cinders in this pretious flame And now ye Gods that guide the starrie frame And order all things at your high dispose Graunt though the traytors land in Italy They may be still tormented with vnrest And from mine ashes let a Conquerour rise That may reuenge this treason to a Queene By plowing vp his Countries with the Sword Betwixt this land and that be neuer league Littora littoribus contraria fluctibus vndas Impresor arma armis pugnent ipsique nepotes Liue false Aeneas truest Dido dyes Sic sic iuuat ire sub vmbras Enter Anna Anna O helpe Iarbus Dido in these flames Hath burnt her selfe aye me vnhappie me Enter Iarbus running Iar. Cursed Iarbus dye to expiate The griefe that tires vpon thine inward soule Dido I come to thee aye me Aeneas Anna What can my teares or cryes preuaile me now Dido is dead Iarbus slaine Iarbus my deare loue O sweet Iarbus Annas sole delight What fatall destinie enuies me thus To see my sweet Iarbus slay himselfe But Anna now shall honor thee in death And mixe her bloud with thine this shall I doe That Gods and men may pitie this my death And rue our ends senceles of life or breath Now sweet Iarbus stay I come to thee FINIS
such a quiuer and a bow Venus Such bow such quiuer and such golden shafts Will Dido giue to sweete Ascanius For Didos sake I take thee in my armes And sticke these spangled feathers in thy hat Eate Comfites in mine armes and I will sing Now is he fast asleepe and in this groue Amongst greene brakes I le lay Ascanius And strewe him with sweete smelling Violets Blushing Roses purple Hyacinthe These milke white Doues shall be his Centronels Who if that any seeke to doe him hurt Will quickly flye to Citheidas fist Now Cupid turne thee to Ascanius shape And goe to Dido who in stead of him Will set thee on her lap and play with thee Then touch her white breast with this arrow head That she may dote vpon Aeneas loue And by that meanes repaire his broken ships Victuall his Souldiers giue him wealthie gifts And he at last depart to Italy Or els in Carthage make his kingly throne Cupid I will faire mother and so play my part As euery touch shall wound Queene Didos heart Venus Sleepe my sweete nephew in these cooling shades Free from the murmure of these running streames The crye of beasts the ratling of the windes Or whisking of these leaues all shall be still And nothing interrupt thy quiet sleepe Till I returne and take thee hence againe Exit Actus 3. Scena I. Enter Cupid solus Cupid Now Cupid cause the Carthaginian Queene To be inamourd of thy brothers lookes Conuey this golden arrowe in thy sleeue Lest she imagine thou art Venus sonne And when she strokes thee softly on the head Then shall I touch her breast and conquer her Enter Iarbus Anna and Dido Iar. How long faire Dido shall I pine for thee T is not enough that thou doest graunt me loue But that I may enioy what I desire That loue is childish which consists in words Dido Iarbus know that thou of all my wooers And yet haue I had many mightier Kings Hast had the greatest fauours I could giue I feare me Dido hath been counted light In being too familiar with Iarbus Albeit the Gods doe know no wanton thought Had euer residence in Didos breast Iar. But Dido is the fauour I request Dido Feare not Iarbus Dido may be thine Anna Looke sister how Aeneas little sonne Playes with your garments and imbraceth you Cupid No Dido will not take me in her armes I shall not be her sonne she loues me not Dido Weepe not sweet boy thou shalt be Didos sonne Sit in my lap and let me heare thee sing No more my child now talke another while And tell me where learnst thou this pretie song Cupid My cosin Helen taught it me in Troy Dido How louely is Ascanius when he smiles Cupid Will Dido let me hang about her necke Dido I wagge and giue thee leaue to kisse her to Cupid What will you giue me now I le haue this Fanne Dido Take it Ascanius for thy fathers sake Iar. Come Dido leaue Ascanius let vs walke Dido Goe thou away Ascanius shall stay Iar. Vngentle Queene is this thy loue to me Dido O stay Iarbus and I le goe with thee Cupid And if my mother goe I le follow her Dido Why staiest thou here thou art no loue of mine Iar. Iarbus dye seeing she abandons thee Dido No liue Iarbus what hast thou deseru'd That I should say thou art no loue of mine Something thou hast deseru'd away I say Depart from Carthage come not in my sight Iar. Am I not King of rich Getulia Dido Iarbus pardon me and stay a while Cupid Mother looke here Dido What telst thou me of rich Getulia Am not I Queene of Libia then depart Iar. I goe to feed the humour of my Loue Yet not from Carthage for a thousand worlds Dido Iarbus Iar. Doth Dido call me backe Dido No but I charge thee neuer looke on me Iar. Then pull out both mine eyes or let me dye Exit Iarb. Anna Wherefore doth Dido bid Iarbus goe Dido Because his lothsome sight offends mine eye And in my thoughts is shrin'd another Ioue O Anna didst thou know how sweet loue were Full soone wouldst thou abiure this single life Anna Poore soule I know too well the sower of loue O that Iarbus could but fancie me Dido Is not Aeneas faire and beautifull Anna Yes and Iarbus foule and fauourles Dido Is he not eloquent in all his speech Anna Yes and Iarbus rude and rusticall Dido Name not Iarbus but sweete Anna say Is not Aeneas worthie Didos loue Anna O sister were you Empresse of the world Aeneas well deserues to be your loue So louely is he that where ere he goes The people swarme to gaze him in the face Dido But tell them none shall gaze on him but I Lest their grosse eye-beames taint my louers cheekes Anna good sister Anna goe for him Lest with these sweete thoughts I melt cleane away Anna Then sister you le abiure Iarbus loue Dido Yet must I heare that lothsome name againe Runne for Aeneas or I le flye to him Exit Anna Cupid You shall not hurt my father when he comes Dido No for thy sake I le loue thy father well O dull conceipted Dido that till now Didst neuer thinke Aeneas beautifull But now for quittance of this ouersight I le make me bracelets of his golden haire His glistering eyes shall be my looking glasse His lips an altar where I le offer vp As many kisses as the Sea hath sands In stead of musicke I will heare him speake His lookes shall be my only Librarie And thou Aeneas Didos treasurie In whose faire bosome I will locke more wealth Then twentie thousand Indiaes can affoord O here he comes loue loue giue Dido leaue To be more modest then her thoughts admir Lest I be made a wonder to the world Achates how doth Carthage please your Lord Acha. That will Aeneas shewe your maiestie Dido Aeneas art thou there Aen. I vnderstand your highnesse sent for me Dido No but now thou art here tell me in sooth In what might Dido highly pleasure thee Aen. So much haue I receiu'd at Didos hands As without blushing I can aske no more Yet Queene of Affricke are my ships vnrigd My Sailes all rent in sunder with the winde My Oares broken and my Tackling lost Yea all my Nauie split with Rockes and Shelfes Nor Sterne nor Anchor haue our maimed Fleete Our Masts the furious windes strooke ouer bourd Which piteous wants if Dido will supplie We will account her author of our liues Dido Aeneas I le repaire thy Troian ships Conditionally that thou wilt stay with me And let Achates saile to Italy I le giue thee tackling made of riueld gold Wound on the barkes of odoriferous trees Oares of massie Iuorie full of holes Through which the water shall delight to play Thy Anchors shall be hewed from Christall Rockes Which if thou lose shall shine aboue the waues The Masts whereon thy swelling sailes shall hang Hollow Pyramides of siluer plate
hence And not let Dido vnderstand their drift I would haue giuen Achates store of gold And Illioneus gum and Libian spice The common souldiers rich imbrodered coates And siluer whistles to controule the windes Which Circes sent Sicheus when he liued Vnworthie are they of a Queenes reward See where they come how might I doe to chide Enter Anna with Aeneas Achates Illioneus and Sergestus Anna T was time to runne Aeneas had been gone The sailes were hoysing vp and he abourd Dido Is this thy loue to me Aen. O princely Dido giue me leaue to speake I went to take my farewell of Achates Dido How haps Achates bid me not farewell Acha. Because I feard your grace would keepe me here Dido To rid thee of that doubt abourd againe I charge thee put to sea and stay not here Acha. Then let Aeneas goe abourd with vs Dido Get you abourd Aeneas meanes to stay Aen. The sea is rough the windes blow to the shoare Dido O false Aeneas now the sea is rough But when you were abourd t was calme enough Thou and Achates ment to saile away Aen. Hath not the Carthage Queene mine onely sonne Thinkes Dido I will goe and leaue him here Dido Aeneas pardon me for I forgot That yong Ascanius lay with me this night Loue made me iealous but to make amends Weare the emperiall Crowne of Libia Sway thou the Punike Scepter in my steede And punish me Aeneas for this crime Aen. This kisse shall be faire Didos punishment Dido O how a Crowne becomes Aeneas head Stay here Aeneas and commaund as King Aen. How vaine am I to weare this Diadem And beare this golden Scepter in my hand A Burgonet of steele and not a Crowne A Sword and not a Scepter fits Aeneas Dido O keepe them still and let me gaze my fill Now lookes Aeneas like immortall Ioue O where is Ganimed to hold his cup And Mercury to flye for what he calles Ten thousand Cupids houer in the ayre And fanne it in Aeneas louely face O that the Clowdes were here wherein thou fleest That thou and I vnseene might sport our selues Heauens enuious of our ioyes is waxen pale And when we whisper then the starres fall downe To be partakers of our honey talke Aen. O Dido patronesse of all our liues When I leaue thee death be my punishment Swell raging seas frowne wayward destinies Blow windes threaten ye Rockes and sandie shelfes This is the harbour that Aeneas seekes Le ts see what tempests can anoy me now Dido Not all the world can take thee from mine armes Aeneas may commaund as many Moores As in the Sea are little water drops And now to make experience of my loue Faire sister Anna leade my louer forth And seated on my Gennet let him ride As Didos husband through the punicke streetes And will my guard with Mauritanian darts To waite vpon him as their soueraigne Lord Anna What if the Citizens repine thereat Dido Those that dislike what Dido giues in charge Commaund my guard to slay for their offence Shall vulgar pesants storme at what I doe The ground is mine that giues them sustenance The ayre wherein they breathe the water fire All that they haue their lands their goods their liues And I the Goddesse of all these commaund Aeneas as Carthaginian King Acha. Aeneas for his parentage deserues As large a kingdome as is Labia Aen. I and vnlesse the destinies be false I shall be planted in as rich a land Dido Speake of no other land this land is thine Dido is thine henceforth I le call thee Lord Doe as I bid thee sister leade the way And from a turret I le behold my loue Aen. Then here in me shall flourish Priams race And thou and I Achates for reuenge For Troy for Priam for his fiftie sonnes Our kinsmens loues and thousand guiltles soules Will leade an hoste against the hatefull Greekes And fire proude Lacedemon ore their heads Exit Dido Speakers not Aeneas like a Conqueror O blessed tempests that did driue him in O happie sand that made him runne aground Henceforth you shall be our Carthage Gods I but it may be he will leaue my loue And seeke a forraine land calde Italy O that I had a charme to keepe the windes Within the closure of a golden ball Or that the Tyrrhen sea were in mine armes That he might suffer shipwracke on my breast As oft as he attempts to hoyst vp saile I must preuent him wishing will not serue Goe bid my Nurse take yong Ascanius And beare him in the countrey to her house Aeneas will not goe without his sonne Yet lest he should for I am full of feare Bring me his oares his tackling and his sailes What if I sinke his ships O hee le frowne Better he frowne then I should dye for griefe I cannot see him frowne it may not be Armies of foes resolu'd to winne this towne Or impious traitors vowde to haue my life Affright me not onely Aeneas frowne Is that which terrifies poore Didos heart Not bloudie speares appearing in the ayre Presage the downfall of my Emperie Nor blazing Commets threatens Didos death It is Aeneas frowne that ends my daies If he forsake me not I neuer dye For in his lookes I see eternitie And hee le make me immortall with a kisse Enter a Lord Your Nurse is gone with yong Ascanius And here 's Aeneas tackling oares and sailes Dido Are these the sailes that in despight of me Packt with the windes to beare Aeneas hence I le hang ye in the chamber where I lye Driue if you can my house to Italy I le set the casement open that the windes May enter in and once againe conspire Against the life of me poore Carthage Queene But though he goe he stayes in Carthage still And let rich Carthage fleete vpon the seas So I may haue Aeneas in mine armes Is this the wood that grew in Carthage plaines And would be toyling in the watrie billowes To rob their mistresse of her Troian guest O cursed tree hadst thou but wit or sense To measure how I prize Aeneas loue Thou wouldst haue leapt from out the Sailers hands And told me that Aeneas ment to goe And yet I blame thee not thou art but wood The water which our Poets terme a Nimph Why did it suffer thee to touch her breast And shrunke not backe knowing my loue was there The water is an Element no Nimph Why should I blame Aeneas for his flight O Dido blame not him but breake his oares These were the instruments that launcht him forth There 's not so much as this base tackling too But dares to heape vp sorrowe to my heart Was it not you that hoysed vp these sailes Why burst you not and they fell in the seas For this will Dido tye ye full of knots And sheere ye all asunder with her hands Now serue to chastize shipboyes for their faults Ye shall no more offend the Carthage Queene Now let
him hang my fauours on his masts And see if those will serue in steed of sailes For tackling let him take the chaines of gold Which I bestowd vpon his followers In steed of oares let him vse his hands And swim to Italy I le keepe these sure Come beare them in Exit Enter the Nurse with Cupid for Ascanius Nurse My Lord Ascanius ye must goe with me Cupid Whither must I goe I le stay with my mother Nurse No thou shalt goe with me vnto my house I haue an Orchard that hath store of plums Browne Almonds Seruises ripe Figs and Dates Dewberries Apples yellow Orenges A garden where are Bee hiues full of honey Musk-roses and a thousand sort of flowers And in the midst doth run a siluer streame Where thou shalt see the red gild fishes leape White Swannes and many louely water sowles Now speake Ascanius will ye goe or no Cupid Come come I le goe how farre hence is your house Nurse But hereby child we shall get thither straight Cupid Nurse I am wearie will you carrie me Nurse I so you le dwell with me and call me mother Cupid So you le loue me I care not if I doe Nurse That I might liue to see this boy a man How pretilie he laughs goe ye wagge You le be a twigger when you come to age Say Dido what she will I am not old I le be no more a widowe I am young I le haue a husband or els a louer Cupid A husband and no teeth Nurse O what meane I to haue such foolish thoughts Foolish is loue a toy O sacred loue If there be any heauen in earth t is loue Especially in women of your yeares Blush blush for shame why shouldst thou thinke of loue A graue and not a louer fits thy age A graue why I may liue a hundred yeares Fourescore is but a girles age loue is sweete My vaines are withered and my sinewes drie Why doe I thinke of loue now I should dye Cupid Come Nurse Nurse Well if he come a wooing he shall speede O how vnwise was I to say him nay Exeunt Actus 5. Enter Aeneas with a paper in his hand drawing the platforme of the citie with him Achates Cloanthus and Illioneus Aen. Triumph my mates our trauels are at end Here will Aeneas build a statelier Troy Then that which grim Atrides ouerthrew Carthage shall vaunt her pettie walles no more For I will grace them with a fairer frame And clad her in a Chrystall liuerie Wherein the day may euermore delight From golden India Ganges will I fetch Whose wealthie streames may waite vpon her towers And triple wise intrench her round about The Sunne from Egypt shall rich odors bring Where with his burning beames like labouring Bees That loade their thighes with Hyblas honeys spoyles Shall here vnburden their exhaled sweetes And plant our pleasant suburbes with her fumes Acha. What length or bredth shal this braue towne cōtaine Aen. Not past foure thousand paces at the most Illio. But what shall it be calde Troy as before Aen. That haue I not determinde with my selfe Cloan. Let it be term'd Aenea by your name Serg. Rather Ascania by your little sonne Aen. Nay I will haue it calde Anchisaon Of my old fathers name Enter Hermes with Ascanius Hermes Aeneas stay Ioues Herald bids thee stay Aen. Whom doe I see Ioues winged messenger Welcome to Carthage new erected towne Hermes Why cosin stand you building Cities here And beautifying the Empire of this Queene While Italy is cleane out of thy minde To too forgetfull of thine owne affayres Why wilt thou so betray thy sonnes good hap The king of Gods sent me from highest heauen To sound this angrie message in thine eares Vaine man what Monarky expectst thou here Or with what thought sleepst thou in Libia shoare If that all glorie hath forsaken thee And thou despise the praise of such attempts Yet thinke vpon Ascanius prophesie And yong Iulus more then thousand yeares Whom I haue brought from Ida where he slept And bore yong Cupid vnto Cypresse I le Aen. This was my mother that be the Queene And made me take my brother for my sonne No maruell Dido though thou be in loue That daylie danglest Cupid in thy armes Welcome sweet child where hast thou been this long Asca. Eating sweet Comfites with Queene Didos maide Who euersince hath luld me in her armes Aen. Sergestus beare him hence vnto our ships Lest Dido spying him keepe him for a pledge Hermes Spendst thou thy time about this little boy And giuest not eare vnto the charge I bring I tell thee thou must straight to Italy Or els abide the wrath of frowning Ioue Aen. How should I put into the raging deepe Who haue no sailes nor tackling for my ships What would the Gods haue me Deucalion like Flote vp and downe where ere the billowes driue Though she repairde my fleete and gaue me ships Yet hath she tane away my oares and masts And left me neither saile nor sterne abourd Enter to them Iarbus Iar. How now Aeneas sad what meanes these dumpes Aen. Iarbus I am cleane besides my selfe Ioue hath heapt on me such a desperate charge Which neither art nor reason may atchieue Nor I deuise by what meanes to contriue Iar. As how I pray may I entreate you tell Aen. With speede he bids me saile to Italy When as I want both rigging for my fleete And also furniture for these my men Iar. If that be all then cheare thy drooping lookes For I will furnish thee with such supplies Let some of those thy followers goe with me And they shall haue what thing so ere thou needst Aen. Thankes good Iarbus for thy friendly ayde Achates and the rest shall waite on thee Whil'st I rest thankfull for this curtesie Exit Iarbus and Aeneas traine Now will I haste vnto Lauinian shoare And raise a new foundation to old Troy Witnes the Gods and witnes heauen and earth How loth I am to leaue these Libian bounds But that eternall Iupiter commands Enter Dido and Aeneas Dido I feare I sawe Aeneas little sonne Led by Achates to the Troian fleete If it be so his father meanes to flye But here he is now Dido trie thy wit Aeneas wherefore goe thy men abourd Why are thy ships new rigd or to what end Launcht from the hauen lye they in the Rhode Pardon me though I aske loue makes me aske Aen. O pardon me if I resolue thee why Aeneas will not faine with his deare loue I must from hence this day swift Mercury When I was laying a platforme for these walles Sent from his father Ioue appeard to me And in his name rebukt me bitterly For lingering here neglecting Italy Dido But yet Aeneas will not leaue his loue Aen. I am commaunded by immortall Ioue To leaue this towne and passe to Italy And therefore must of force Dido These words proceed not from Aeneas heart Aen. Not from my heart for I can hardly goe