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Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License 2015 SHC-158-A07023.xml The tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage played by the Children of her Maiesties Chappell. Written by Christopher Marlowe, and Thomas Nash. Gent. Actors Iupiter. Ganimed. Venus. Cupid. Iuno. Mercurie, or Hermes. Æneas. Ascanius. Dido. Anna. Achates. Ilioneus. Iarbas. Cloanthes. Sergestus. Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593. 27 600dpi TIFF G4 page images University of Michigan, Digital Library Production Service Ann Arbor, Michigan 2003 January (TCP phase 1) 99845523 STC (2nd ed.) 17441. Greg, I, 128. 10428 A07023

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 The tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage played by the Children of her Maiesties Chappell. Written by Christopher Marlowe, and Thomas Nash. Gent. Actors Iupiter. Ganimed. Venus. Cupid. Iuno. Mercurie, or Hermes. Æneas. Ascanius. Dido. Anna. Achates. Ilioneus. Iarbas. Cloanthes. Sergestus. Dido Dido. Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593. Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601. [52] p. Printed, by the widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke, and are to be solde at his shop, in Paules Church-yeard, at the signe of the blacke Beare, At London : 1594.

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THE TragedieTragedy of Dido QueeneQueen of Carthage : Played by the Children of her MaiestiesMajesty's ChappellChapel .

Written by Christopher Marlowe , and Thomas Nash. Gent.

Actors Iupiterjupiter . GanimedGanymede . Venus . Cupid . Iunojuno . Mercuriemercury , or Hermes . Aeneas . Ascanius . Dido . Anna . Achates . Ilioneus . Iarbasjarbas . Cloanthes . Sergestus .

AT LONDON , Printed , by the WiddoweWidow Orwin , for Thomas Woodcocke , and are to be soldesold at his shop , in PaulesPaul's Church-yeardChurchyard , at the signesign of the blackeblack BeareBear . 1594 .

The TragedieTragedy of Dido QueeneQueen of Carthage . Here the CurtainesCurtains draw , there is discouereddiscovered Iupiterjupiter dandling Ganimed vponupon his knee , and Mercury lying asleepeasleep . Iup.jup. COme gentle GanimedGanymede and play with me , I louelove thee well , say Iunojuno what she will . Gan. I am much better for your worthlesworthless louelove , That will not shield me from her shrewish blowesblows : To dayToday when aswhenas I fildfilled into your cups , And held the cloathcloth of pleasance whiles you drankedrank , She reachtreached me such a rap for that I spildespilled , As made the bloudblood run downedown about mine earesears . Iup.jup. What ? dares she strike the darling of my thoughts ? By SaturnesSaturn's soulesoul , and this earth threatningthreatening aireair , That shaken thrisethrice , makes NaturesNature's buildings quake , I vow , if she but once frownefrown on thee more , To hang her meteor like twixt heauenheaven and earth , And bind her hand and footefoot with golden cordescords , As once I did for harming Hercules . Gan. Might I but see that pretiepretty sport a footefoot , OOh how would I with HelensHelen's brother laugh , And bring the Gods to wonder at the game : Sweet Iupiterjupiter , if ere I pleasdepleased thine eye , Or seemed fairefair waldewalled in with EglesEagle's wings , Grace my immortallimmortal beautiebeauty with this booneboon , And I will spend my time in thy bright armesarms . Iup.jup. What istis't sweet waggewag I should deny thy youth ? Whose face reflects such pleasure to mine eyes , As I exhal'dexhaled with thy fire darting beamesbeams , HaueHave oft driuendriven backeback the horses of the night , When aswhenas they would hauehave hal'dhaled thee from my sight : Sit on my knee , and call for thy content , ControuleControl proud Fate , and cut the thredthread of time , Why are not all the Gods at thy commaundcommand , And heauenheaven and earth the bounds of thy delight ? Vulcan shall dauncedance to make thee laughing sport , And my nine Daughters sing when thou art sad , From IunosJuno's bird IleI'll pluck her spotted pride , To make thee fannesfans wherewith to coolecool thy face , And VenusVenus' SwannesSwans shall shed their siluersilver downedown , To sweeten out the slumbers of thy bed : Hermes no more shall shewshow the world his wings , If that thy fanciefancy in his feathers dwell , But as this one IleI'll tearetear them all from him , DoeDo thou but say their colour pleaseth me : Hold here my little louelove these linked gems , My Iunojuno warewore vponupon her marriage day , Put thou about thy neckeneck my owneown sweet heart , And tricketrick thy armesarms and shoulders with my theft . Gan. I would hauehave a iewelljewel for mine eareear , And a fine brouchbrooch to put in my hat , And then IleI'll huggehug with you an hundred times . Iup.jup. And shall hauehave GanimedGanymede , if thou wilt be my louelove . Enter Venus . Venus . I this is it , you can sit toying there , And playing with that female wanton boy , Whiles my Aeneas wanders on the Seas , And rests a prayprey to eueryevery billowesbillow's pride . Iunojuno , false Iunojuno in her Chariotschariot's pompepomp , DrawneDrawn through the heauensheavens by SteedesSteeds of Boreas brood , Made Hebe to direct her ayrieairy wheeleswheels Into the windiewindy countriecountry of the clowdesclouds , Where finding Aeolus intrenchtentrenched with stormesstorms , And guarded with a thousand grisliegrisly ghosts , She humbly did beseech him for our bane , And charg'dcharged him drownedrown my sonneson with all his trainetrain . Then gan'gan the windeswinds breakebreak opeopen their brazen dooresdoors , And all Aeolia to be vpup in armesarms : PoorePoor Troy must now be sacktsacked vponupon the Sea , And NeptunesNeptune's waueswaves be enuiousenvious men of warrewar , EpeusEpeus' horse to AetnasAetna's hill transformdtransformed , Prepared stands to wrackewrack their wooddenwooden walleswalls , And Aeolus like Agamemnon sounds The surges , his fierce souldierssoldiers to the spoylespoil : See how the night Vlysses-likeUlysses-like comes forth , And intercepts the day as Dolon erst : Ay me ! the StarresStars supprisdesurprised like Rhesus SteedesSteeds , Are drawnedrawn by darknesdarkness forth Astrausastraus' tents . What shall I doedo to sauesave thee my sweet boy ? When aswhenas the waueswaves doedo threat our ChrystallCrystal world , And Proteus raising hilshills of floudsfloods on high , EntendsIntends ere long to sport him in the skiesky . False Iupiterjupiter , rewardst thou vertuevirtue so ? What ? is not pietiepiety exempt from woe ? Then dyedie Aeneas in thine innocence , Since that religion hath no recompencerecompense . Iup.jup. Content thee Cytherea in thy care , Since thy Aeneas wandringwand'ring fate is firmefirm , Whose wearieweary limslimbs shall shortly make repose , In those fairefair walleswalls I promistpromised him of yore : But first in bloudblood must his good fortune bud , Before he be the Lord of TurnusTurnus' townetown , Or force her smile that hethertohitherto hath frowndfrowned : Three winters shall he with the Rutiles warrewar , And in the end subdue them with his sword , And full three SommersSummers likewise shall he waste , In mannagingmanaging those fierce barbarian mindesminds : Which once performdperformed , poorepoor Troy so long supprestsuppressed , From forth her ashes shall aduanceadvance her head , And flourish once againeagain that erst was dead : But bright Ascanius beauties better workework , Who with the SunneSun deuidesdivides one radiant shape , Shall build his throne amidstamid those starriestarry towers , That earth-borneearthborn Atlas groninggroaning vnderpropsunderprops : No bounds but heauenheaven shall bound his EmperieEmpery , Whose azured gates enchased with his name , Shall make the morning hasthaste her graygrey vpriseuprise , To feedefeed her eyes with his engrauenengraven fame . Thus in stoutestout HectorsHector's race three hundred yearesyears , The RomaneRoman ScepterSceptre royallroyal shall remaineremain , Till that a PrincessePrincess priest conceau'dconceived by Mars , Shall yeeldyield to dignitiedignity a dubbledouble birth , Who will eternise Troy in their attempts . Venus . How may I creditecredit these thy flattering termesterms , When yet both sea and sands beset their ships , And Phoebus as in stygian poolespools , refrainesrefrains To taint his tresses in the Tyrrhen mainemain ? Iup.jup. I will take order for that presently : Hermes awake , and haste to NeptunesNeptune's realmerealm , Whereas the Wind-god warring now with Fate , Besiege the ofspringoffspring of our kingly loynesloins , Charge him from me to turneturn his stormiestormy powers , And fetter them in VulcansVulcan's sturdiesturdy brassebrass , That durst thus proudly wrong our kinsmanskinsman's peace . VenusVenus' farewell , thy sonneson shall be our care : Come GanimedGanymede , we must about this gearegear . Exeunt Iupiterjupiter cum Ganimed . Venus . Disquiet Seas lay downedown your swelling lookeslooks , And court Aeneas with your calmiecalmy cheerecheer , Whose beautiousbeauteous burden well might make you proudeproud , Had not the heauensheavens conceau'dconceived with hel-bornehellborn clowdesclouds . VaildVeiled his resplendantresplendent glorieglory from your view , For my sake pitiepity him Oceanus , That erst-whileerstwhile issued from thy watriewatery loynesloins , And had my being from thy bublingbubbling froth : Triton I know hath fildfilled his trumpetrump with Troy , And therefore will take pitiepity on his toyletoil , And call both Thetis and Cimodea , To succour him in this extremitieextremity . Enter Aeneas with Ascanius , with one or two more . What ? doedo I see my sonneson now come on shoareshore : Venus , how art thou compastcompassed with content , The while thine eyes attract their sought for ioyesjoys : Great Iupiterjupiter , still honourdhonoured maistmayst thou be , For this so friendly aydeaid in time of needeneed . Here in this bush disguised will I stand , Whiles my Aeneas spends himselfehimself in plaints , And heauenheaven and earth with his vnrestunrest acquaints . Aen. You sonnessons of care , companions of my course , PriamsPriam's misfortune followesfollows vsus by sea , And HelensHelen's rape doth haunt thee at the heelesheels . How many dangers hauehave we ouerover pastpassed ? Both barking ScillaScylla and the sounding Rocks , The Cyclops sheluesshelves , and grim CeraniasCerania's seateseat HaueHave you oregoneo'ergone , and yet remaineremain aliuealive ? Pluck vpup your hearts , since fate still rests our friend , And chaungingchanging heauensheavens may those good daiesdays returnereturn , Which Pergama did vaunt in all her pride . Acha. BraueBrave Prince of Troy , thou onelyonly art our God , That by thy vertuesvirtue's freest vsus from annoy , And makes our hopes suruiuesurvive to cunning ioyesjoys : DoeDo thou but smile , and clowdiecloudy heauenheaven will cleareclear , Whose night and day descendeth from thy browesbrows : Though we be now in extreameextreme miseriemisery , And rest the map of weather beaten woe : Yet shall the aged SunneSun shed forth his aireair , To make vsus liuelive vntounto our former heateheat , And eueryevery beast the forrestforest doth send forth , Bequeath her young ones to our scanted foodefood . Asca. Father I saint , good father giuegive me meatemeat . Aen. Alas sweet boy , thou must be still a while , Till we hauehave fire to dressedress the meatemeat we kildkilled : Gentle Achates , reach the Tinder boxebox , That we may make a fire to warmewarm vsus with , And rostroast our new found victuals on this shoareshore . Venus . See what strange arts necessitienecessity findesfinds out , How neerenear my sweet Aeneas art thou driuendriven ? Aen. Hold , take this candle and goego light a fire , You shall hauehave leauesleaves and windfall bowesbows enowenough NeereNear to these woods , to rostroast your meatemeat withallwithal : Ascanius , goego and driedry thy drenched limslimbs , Whiles I with my Achates roauerove abroad , To know what coast the windewind hath driuendriven vsus on , Or whether men or beasts inhabiteinhabit it . Acha. The ayreair is pleasant , and the soylesoil most fit For Cities , and societies supports : Yet much I maruellmarvel that I cannot findefind , No steps of men imprinted in the earth . Venus . Now is the time for me to play my part : Hoeho yongyoung men , saw you as you came Any of all my Sisters wandringwand'ring here ? HauingHaving a quiuerquiver girded to her side , And cloathedclothed in a spotted LeopardsLeopard's skin . Aen. I neither saw nor heard of any such : But what may I fairefair Virgin call your name ? Whose lookeslooks set forth no mortallmortal formeform to view , Nor speech bewraiesbewrays oughtaught humainehuman in thy birth , Thou art a GoddesseGoddess that deludstdelud'st our eyes , And shrowdesshrouds thy beautiebeauty in this borrowdborrowed shape : But whether thou the Sunnessun's bright Sister be , Or one of chastchaste DianasDiana's fellow Nimphsnymphs , LiueLive happiehappy in the height of all content , And lighten our extreamesextremes with this one booneboon , As to instruct vsus vnderunder what good heauenheaven We breathe as now , and what this world is caldecalled , On which by tempeststempest's furiefury we are cast , Tell vsus , OOh tell vsus that are ignorant , And this right hand shall make thy Altars crack With mountainemountain heapesheaps of milkemilk white SacrifizeSacrifice . Venus . Such honour , stranger , doedo I not affect : It is the vseuse for Turen maidesmaids to wearewear Their bowebow and quiuerquiver in this modest sort , And suitesuit themseluesthemselves in purple for the nonce , That they may trip more lightly oreo'er the lawndeslawns , And ouertakeovertake the tusked BoreBoar in chase . But for the land whereof thou doestdost enquireinquire , It is the punickpunic kingdomekingdom rich and strong , AdioyningAdjoining on AgenorsAgenor's stately townetown , The kingly seateseat of SoutherneSouthern LibiaLibya , Whereas Sidonian Dido rules as QueeneQueen . But what are you that askeask of me these things ? Whence may you come , or whither will you goego ? Aen. Of Troy am I , Aeneas is my name , Who driuendriven by warrewar from forth my natiuenative world , Put sailessails to sea to seekeseek out Italy : And my diuinedivine descent from sceptred Iouejove , With twisetwice tweluetwelve Phrigianphrygian ships I plowedploughed the deepedeep , And made that way my mother Venus led : But of them all scarce seuenseven doedo anchor safe , And they so wracktwracked and weltredweltered by the waueswaves , As eueryevery tide tilts twixt their okenoaken sides : And all of them vnburdenedunburdened of their loadeload , Are ballassed with billowesbillows watriewatery weight . But hapleshapless I , God wot , poorepoor and vnknowneunknown , DoeDo trace these LibianLibyan deserts all despisdedespised , ExildExiled forth Europe and wide Asia both , And hauehave not any couerturecoverture but heauenheaven . Venus . Fortune hath fauordfavoured thee what erewhate'er thou be , In sending thee vntounto this curteouscourteous Coast : A GodsGod's name on and hasthaste thee to the Court , Where Dido will receiuereceive ye with her smiles : And for thy ships which thou supposest lost , Not one of them hath perishtperished in the stormestorm , But are ariuedarrived safe not fane from hence : And so I leaueleave thee to thy fortunesfortune's lot , Wishing good luckeluck vntounto thy wandringwand'ring steps . Exit . Aen. Achates , tis'tis my mother that is fled , I know her by the mouingsmovings of her feetefeet : Stay gentle Venus , flyefly not from thy sonneson , Too cruellcruel , why wilt thou forsake me thus ? Or in these shades deceiu'stdeceivest mine eye so oft ? Why talketalk we not together hand in hand ? And tell our griefesgriefs in more familiar termesterms : But thou art gone and leau'stleavest me here alone , To dull the ayreair with my discoursiuediscursive moanemoan . Exit Enter Illioneus , and Cleanthes . Illio. Follow ye TroiansTrojans , follow this brauebrave Lord , And plaineplain to him the summesum of your distressedistress . Iar. Why , what are you , or wherefore doedo you sewesue ? Illio. Wretches of Troy , enuiedenvied of the windeswinds , That crauecrave such fauourfavour at your honorshonour's feetefeet , As poorepoor distressed miseriemisery may pleadeplead : SaueSave , sauesave , OOh sauesave our ships from cruellcruel fire , That doedo complainecomplain the wounds of thousand waueswaves , And spare our liueslives whom eueryevery spite pursues . We come not we to wrong your LibianLibyan Gods , Or stealesteal your housholdhousehold lares from their shrines : Our hands are not prepar'dprepared to lawleslawless spoylespoil , Nor armed to offend in any kind : Such force is farrefar from our vnweaponedunweaponed thoughts , Whose fading wealeweal of victorievictory forsookeforsook , Forbids all hope to harbour neerenear our hearts . Iar. But tell me TroiansTrojans , TroiansTrojans if you be , VntoUnto what fruitfullfruitful quarters were ye bound , Before that Boreas buckled with your sailessails ? Cloan. There is a place Hesperia term'dtermed by vsus , An ancient Empire , famoused for armesarms , And fertile in fairefair CeresCeres' furrowed wealth , Which now we call Italia of his name , That in such peace long time did rule the same : Thither made we , When suddenly gloomiegloomy Orion rose , And led our ships into the shallow sands , Whereas the SoutherneSouthern windewind with brackish breath , DisperstDispersed them all amongst the wrackfullwrackful RockesRocks : From thence a fewefew of vsus escaptescaped to land , The rest we fearefear are fouldedfolded in the floudsfloods . Iar. BraueBrave men at armesarms , abandon fruitlesfruitless fearesfears , Since Carthage knowesknows to entertaineentertain distressedistress . Serg. I but the barbarous sort doedo threat our ships , And will not let vsus lodge vponupon the sands : In multitudes they swarmeswarm vntounto the shoareshore , And from the first earth interdict our feetefeet . Iar. My selfemyself will see they shall not trouble ye , Your men and you shall banquet in our Court , And eueryevery TroianTrojan be as welcome here , As Iupiterjupiter to silliesilly VansisVansis' house : Come in with me , IleI'll bring you to my QueeneQueen , Who shall confirmeconfirm my words with further deedesdeeds . Serg. ThankesThanks gentle Lord for such vnlooktunlooked for grace , Might we but once more see Aeneas face , Then would we hope to quite such friendly turnesturns , As shall surpassesurpass the wonder of our speech .
Actus 2. Enter Aeneas , Achates , and Ascanius . Aen. Where am I now ? these should be Carthage walleswalls . Acha. Why stands my sweetesweet Aeneas thus amazdeamazed ? Aen. O my Achates , Theban Niobe , Who for her sonnesson's death wept out life and breath , And driedry with griefegrief was turndturned into a stone , Had not such passions in her head as I . Me thinkesmethinks that townetown there should be Troy , yonyond IdasIda's hill , There ZanthusXanthus' streamestream , because here's Priamus , And when I know it is not , thenthan I dyedie . Ach. And in this humorhumour is Achates to , I cannot choose but fall vponupon my knees , And kissekiss his hand : OOh where is Hecuba , Here she was wont to sit , but sauingsaving ayreair Is nothing here , and what is this but stone ? Aen. O yet this stone doth make Aeneas weepeweep , And would my prayers ( as PigmalionsPygmalion's did ) Could giuegive it life , that vnderunder his conduct We might sailesail backeback to Troy , and be reuengderevenged On these hard hartedhearted Grecians , which reioycerejoice That nothing now is left of Priamus : OOh Priamus is left and this is he , Come , come abourdaboard , pursue the hatefullhateful GreekesGreeks . Acha. What meanesmeans Aeneas ? Aen. Achates though mine eyes say this is stone , Yet thinkesthinks my mindemind that this is Priamus : And when my grieuedgrieved heart sighessighs and sayessays no , Then would it leapeleap out to giuegive Priam life : OOh were I not at all so thou mightst be . Achates , see King Priam wags his hand , He is aliuealive , Troy is not ouercomeovercome . Ach. Thy mind Aeneas that would hauehave it so Deludes thy eye sight , Priamus is dead . Aen. Ah Troy is sacktsacked , and Priamus is dead , And why should poorepoor Aeneas be aliuealive ? Asca. SweeteSweet father leaueleave to weepeweep , this is not he : For were it Priam he would smile on me . Acha. Aeneas see here come the Citizens , LeaueLeave to lament lest they laugh at our fearesfears . Enter Cloanthus , Sergestus , Illioneus . Aen. Lords of this townetown , or whatsoeuerwhatsoever stilestyle Belongs vntounto your name , vouchsafe of ruth To tell vsus who inhabits this fairefair townetown , What kind of people , and who gouernesgoverns them : For we are strangers driuendriven on this shore , And scarcely know within what Clime we are . Illio. I hearehear Aeneas voycevoice , but see him not , For none of these can be our GenerallGeneral . Acha. Like Illioneus speakesspeaks this Noble man , But Illioneus goes not in such robes . Serg. You are Achates , or I deciu'ddeceived . Acha. Aeneas see Sergestus or his ghost . Illio. He meanesmeans Aeneas , let vsus kissekiss his feetefeet . Cloan. It is our CaptaineCaptain , see Ascanius . Serg. LiueLive long Aeneas and Ascanius . Aen. Achates , speakespeak , for I am ouerioyedoverjoyed . Acha. O Illioneus , art thou yet aliuealive ? Illio. BlestBlessed be the time I see Achates face . Cloan. Why turnesturns Aeneas from his trustietrusty friends ? Aen. Sergestus , Illioneus and the rest , Your sight amazdeamazed me , OOh what destinies HaueHave brought my sweetesweet companions in such plight ? O tell me , for I long to be resolu'dresolved . Illio. LouelyLovely Aeneas , these are Carthage walleswalls , And here QueeneQueen Dido weareswears th'imperiallth'imperial CrowneCrown , Who for TroyesTroy's sake hath entertaindentertained vsus all , And clad vsus in these wealthiewealthy robes we wearewear . Oft hath she asktasked vsus vnderunder whom we seru'dserved , And when we told her she would weepeweep for griefegrief , Thinking the sea had swallowed vpup thy ships , And now she sees thee how will she reioycerejoice ? Serg. See where her seruitorsservitors passepass through the hall Bearing a banketbanquet , Dido is not farrefar . Illio. LookeLook where she comes : Aeneas viewdviewed her well . Aen. Well may I view her , but she sees not me . Enter Dido and her trainetrain . Dido . What stranger art thou that doestdost eye me thus ? Aen. Sometime I was a TroianTrojan mightiemighty QueeneQueen : But Troy is not , what shall I say I am ? Illio. RenowmedRenowned Dido , tis'tis our GenerallGeneral : warlike Aeneas . Dido . Warlike Aeneas , and in these base robes ? GoeGo fetch the garment which SicheusSichaeus warewore : BraueBrave Prince , welcome to Carthage and to me , Both happiehappy that Aeneas is our guest : Sit in this chairechair and banquet with a QueeneQueen , Aeneas is Aeneas , were he clad In weedesweeds as bad as euerever Irus warewore . Aen. This is no seateseat for one thatsthat's comfortlescomfortless , May it please your grace to let Aeneas waitewait : For though my birth be great , my fortunes meanemean , Too meanemean to be companion to a QueeneQueen . Dido . Thy fortune may be greater thenthan thy birth , Sit downedown Aeneas , sit in DidosDido's place , And if this be thy sonneson as I suppose , Here let him sit , be merriemerry louelylovely child . Aen. This place beseemesbeseems me not , OOh pardon me . Dido . IleI'll hauehave it so , Aeneas be content . Asca. Madamemadam , you shall be my mother . Dido . And so I will sweetesweet child : be merriemerry man , Hereshere's to thy better fortune and good starresstars . Aen. In all humilitiehumility I thankethank your grace . Dido . Remember who thou art , speakespeak like thy selfethyself , HumilitieHumility belongs to common groomesgrooms . Aen. And who so miserable as Aeneas is ? Dido . LyesLies it in DidosDido's hands to make thee blestblessed , Then be assured thou art not miserable . Aen. O Priamus , OOh Troy , OhO Hecuba ! Dido . May I entreateentreat thee to discourse at large , And truelytruly to how Troy was ouercomeovercome : For many tales goego of that CitiesCity's fall , And scarcely doedo agree vponupon one poyntpoint : Some say Antenor did betray the townetown , Others report twas'twas SinonsSinon's periurieperjury : But all in this that Troy is ouercomeovercome , And Priam dead , yet how we hearehear no newesnews . Aen. A wofullwoeful tale bids Dido to vnfouldunfold , Whose memoriememory like pale deaths stony mace , BeatesBeats forth my senses from this troubled soulesoul , And makes Aeneas sinkesink at DidosDido's feetefeet . Dido . What faints Aeneas to remember Troy ? In whose defence he fought so valiantly : LookeLook vpup and speakespeak . Aen. Then speakespeak Aeneas with AchillesAchilles' tongue , And Dido and you Carthaginian PeeresPeers HeareHear me , but yet with MirmidonsMyrmidons harsh earesears , Daily inur'denured to broylesbroils and Massacres , Lest you be mou'dmoved too much with my sad tale . The Grecian souldierssoldiers tired with ten yearesyears warrewar , Began to cryecry , let vsus vntounto our ships , Troy is inuincibleinvincible , why stay we here ? With whose outcryesoutcries Atrides being apal'dappalled , Summoned the CaptainesCaptains to his princely tent , Who looking on the scarresscars we TroiansTrojans gauegave , Seeing the number of their men decreastdecreased , And the remainder weakeweak and out of heart , GaueGave vpup their voycesvoices to dislodge the CampeCamp , And so in troopestroops all marchtmarched to Tenedos : Where when they came , VlyssesUlysses on the sand AssaydAssayed with honey words to turneturn them backeback : And as he spoke to further his ententintent , The windeswinds did driuedrive huge billowesbillows to the shoareshore , And heauenheaven was darkneddarkened with tempestuous clowdesclouds : Then he alleag'dalleged the Gods would hauehave them stay , And propheciedprophesied Troy should be ouercomeovercome : And therewithalltherewithal he caldecalled false Sinon forth , A man compact of craft and periurieperjury , Whose ticing'ticing tongue was made of HermosHermo's pipe , To force an hundred watchfullwatchful eyes to sleepesleep : And him Epeus hauinghaving made the horse , With sacrificing wreathes vponupon his head , VlyssesUlysses sent to our vnhappieunhappy townetown : Who grouelinggrovelling in the mire of Zanthus bankesbanks , His hands bound at his backeback , and both his eyes TurndTurned vpup to heauenheaven as one resolu'dresolved to dyedie , Our Phrigianphrygian shepherd haled within the gates , And brought vntounto the Court of Priamus : To whom he vsedused action so pitifullpitiful , LookesLooks so remorcefullremorseful , vowesvows so forcible , As there withallwithal the old man ouercomeovercome , KistKissed him , imbrastembraced him , and vnloosdeunloosed his bands , And then , OOh Dido , pardon me . Dido . Nay leaueleave not here , resolueresolve me of the rest Aen. O th'inchauntingth'enchanting words of that base slaueslave , Made him to thinkethink EpeusEpeus' pine-treepinetree Horse A sacrifizesacrifice t'appease MineruasMinerva's wrath : The rather for that one Laocoon Breaking a spearespear vponupon his hollow breast , Was with two winged Serpents stung to death . Whereat agastaghast , we were commanded straight With reuerencereverence to draw it into Troy . In which vnhappieunhappy workework was I employdemployed , These hands did helpehelp to hale it to the gates , Through which it could not enter twas'twas so huge . O had it neuernever entredentered , Troy had stood . But Priamus impatient of delay , InforstEnforced a wide breach in that rampierdrampired wall , Which thousand battering Rams could neuernever pierce , And so came in this fatallfatal instrument : At whose accursed feetefeet as ouerioyedoverjoyed , We banquettedbanqueted till ouercomeovercome with wine , Some surfettedsurfeited and others soundly slept . Which Sinon viewing , causdecaused the Greekish spyesspies To hasthaste to Tenedos and tell the CampeCamp : ThenThan he vnlocktunlocked the Horse , and suddenly From out his entrailesentrails , Neoptolemus Setting his spearespear vponupon the ground , leapt forth , And after him a thousand Grecians more , In whose sternestern faces shin'dshined the quenchlesquenchless fire , That after burntburned the pride of Asia . By this the CampeCamp was come vntounto the walleswalls , And through the breach did march into the streetesstreets , Where meeting with the rest , kill kill they cryedcried . Frighted with this confused noysenoise , I rose , And looking from a turret , might behold YongYoung infants swimming in their parentsparents' bloudblood , HeadlesHeadless carkassescarcases piled vpup in heapesheaps , Virgins halfehalf dead dragged by their golden hairehair , And with mainemain force flung on a ring of pikes , Old men with swords thrust through their aged sides , Kneeling for merciemercy to a Greekish lad , Who with steelesteel Pol-axesPole-axes dashtdashed out their brainesbrains . Then buckled I mine armour , drew my sword , And thinking to goego downedown , came HectorsHector's ghost With ashieashy visage , blewishbluish sulphuresulphur eyes , His armesarms tornetorn from his shoulders , and his breast Furrowdfurrowed with wounds , and that which made me weepeweep , Thongs at his heelesheels , by which Achilles horse Drew him in triumph through the Greekish CampeCamp , Burst from the earth , crying , Aeneas flyefly , Troy is a fire , the Grecians hauehave the townetown , Dido . O Hector who weepesweeps not to hearehear thy name ? Aen. Yet flung I forth , and desperate of my life , Ran in the thickest throngs , and with this sword Sent many of their sauadgesavage ghosts to hell . At last came PirrhusPyrrhus fell and full of ire , His harnesseharness dropping bloudblood , and on his spearespear The mangled head of PriamsPriam's yongestyoungest sonneson , And after him his band of MirmidonsMyrmidons , With ballesballs of wildewild fire in their murdering pawespaws , Which made the funerallfuneral flame that burntburned fairefair Troy : All which hemdhemmed me about , crying , this is he . Dido . Ah , how could poorepoor Aeneas scape their hands ? Aen. My mother Venus iealousjealous of my health , ConuaidConveyed me from their crooked nets and bands : So I escaptescaped the furious PirrhusPyrrhus' wrath : Who then ran to the pallacepalace of the King , And at Iouesjove's Altar finding Priamus , About whosewho's withered neckeneck hung Hecuba , Fouldingfolding his hand in hers , and ioyntlyjointly both Beating their breasts and falling on the ground , He with his faulchionsfalchion's poyntpoint raisderaised vpup at once , And with MegerasMegaera's eyes stared in their face , ThreatningThreatening a thousand deaths at eueryevery glaunceglance . To whom the aged King thus trembling spoke : Achilles sonneson , remember what I was , Father of fiftiefifty sonnessons , but they are slaineslain , Lord of my fortune , but my fortunes turndturned , King of this CitieCity , but my Troy is fired , And now am neither father , Lord , nor King : Yet who so wretched but desires to liuelive ? O let me liuelive , great Neoptolemus , Not mou'dmoved at all , but smiling at his tearestears , This butcher whil'stwhilst his hands were yet held vpup , Treading vponupon his breast , strookestruck off his hands . Dido . O end Aeneas , I can hearehear no more . Aen. At which the frantickefrantic QueeneQueen leapt on his face , And in his eyelids hanging by the naylesnails , A little while prolong'dprolonged her husbandshusband's life : At last the souldierssoldiers puldpulled her by the heelesheels , And swongswung her howling in the emptieempty ayreair , Which sent an ecchoecho to the wounded King : Whereat he lifted vpup his bedredbedrid limslimbs , And would hauehave grappeldgrappled with AchillesAchilles' sonneson , Forgetting both his want of strength and hands , Which he disdaining whisktwhisked his sword about , And with the wound thereof the King fell downedown : Then from the nauellnavel to the throat at once , He riptripped old Priam : at whose latter gaspegasp Iouesjove's marble statue gan'gan to bend the brow , As lothingloathing PirrhusPyrrhus for this wicked act : Yet he vndauntedundaunted tooketook his fathersfather's flaggeflag , And diptdipped it in the old Kingsking's chill cold bloudblood , And then in triumph ran into the streetesstreets , Through which he could not passepass for slaughtredslaughtered men : So leaning on his sword he stood stone still , Viewing the fire wherewith rich Ilion burntburned . By this I got my father on my backeback , This yongyoung boy in mine armesarms , and by the hand Led fairefair Creusa my belouedbeloved wife , When thou Achates with thy sword mad'stmadest wayweigh , And we were round inuiron'denvironed with the GreekesGreeks : OOh there I lost my wife : and had not we Fought manfully , I had not told this tale : Yet manhood would not serueserve , of force we fled , And as we went vntounto our ships , thou knowest We sawesaw Cassandra spraulingsprawling in the streetesstreets , Whom Aiax rauishtravished in DianasDiana's FawneFawn , Her cheekescheeks swolneswollen with sighessighs , her hairehair all rent , Whom I tooketook vpup to bearebear vntounto our ships : But suddenly the Grecians followed vsus , And I alas , was forstforced to let her lyelie . Then got we to our ships , and being abourdaboard , Polixena cryedcried out , Aeneas stay , The GreekesGreeks pursue me , stay and take me in . MouedMoved with her voycevoice , I leptleapt into the sea , Thinking to bearebear her on my backeback abourdaboard : For all our ships were launchtlaunched into the deepedeep , And as I swommeswom , she standing on the shoareshore , Was by the cruellcruel MirmidonsMyrmidons surprizdsurprised , And after by that PirrhusPyrrhus sacrifizdesacrificed . Dido . I dyedie with melting ruth , Aeneas leaueleave . Anna . O what became of aged Hecuba ? Iar. How got Aeneas to the fleetefleet againeagain ? Dido . But how scaptscaped Helen , she that causdecaused this warrewar ? Aen. Achates speakespeak , sorrow hath tired me quite . Acha. What happened to the QueeneQueen we cannot sheweshow , We hearehear they led her captiuecaptive into Greece , As for Aeneas he swommeswom quickly backeback , And Helena betraiedbetrayed DūphobusDumphobus Her LouerLover , after Alexander dyeddied , And so was reconcil'dreconciled to Menelaus . Dido . O had that ticing strumpet nerenever been borneborn : TroianTrojan , thy ruthfullruthful tale hath made me sad : Come let vsus thinkethink vponupon some pleasing sport , To rid me from these melanchollymelancholy thoughts . Exeunt omnes . Enter Venus at another dooredoor , and takes Ascanius by the sleeuesleeve . Venus . FaireFair child stay thou with DidosDido's waiting maidemaid , IleI'll giuegive thee Sugar-almonds , sweetesweet ConseruesConserves , A siluersilver girdle , and a golden purse , And this yongyoung Prince shall be thy playfellow . Asca. Are you QueeneQueen DidosDido's sonneson ? Cupid . Iay , and my mother gauegave me this fine bow . Asca. Shall I hauehave such a quiuerquiver and a bow ? Venus . Such bow , such quiuerquiver , and such golden shafts , Will Dido giuegive to sweetesweet Ascanius : For DidosDido's sake I take thee in my armesarms , And stickestick these spangled feathers in thy hat , EateEat ComfitesComfits in mine armesarms , and I will sing . Now is he fast asleepeasleep , and in this grouegrove Amongst greenegreen brakes IleI'll lay Ascanius , And strewestrew him with sweetesweet smelling Violets , Blushing Roses , purple HyacintheHyacinth : These milkemilk white DouesDoves shall be his Centronels : Who if that any seekeseek to doedo him hurt , Will quickly flyefly to CitheidasCitheidas' fist . Now Cupid turneturn thee to AscaniusAscanius' shape , And goego 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 vponupon Aeneas louelove : And by that meanesmeans repairerepair his broken ships , VictuallVictual his SouldiersSoldiers , giuegive him wealthiewealthy gifts , And he at last depart to Italy , Or elselse in Carthage make his kingly throne . Cupid . I will fairefair mother , and so play my part , As eueryevery touch shall wound QueeneQueen DidosDido's heart . Venus SleepeSleep my sweetesweet nephew in these cooling shades , Free from the murmuremurmur of these running streamesstreams , The cryecry of beasts , the ratlingrattling of the windeswinds , Or whisking of these leauesleaves , all shall be still , And nothing interrupt thy quiet sleepesleep , Till I returnereturn and take thee hence againeagain . Exit .
Actus 3. ScenaScaena I. Enter Cupid solus . Cupid . Now Cupid cause the Carthaginian QueeneQueen , To be inamourdenamoured of thy brothersbrother's lookeslooks , ConueyConvey this golden arrowearrow in thy sleeuesleeve , Lest she imagine thou art VenusVenus' sonneson : And when she strokes thee softly on the head , Then shall I touch her breast and conquer her . Enter Iarbusjarbus , Anna , and Dido . Iar. How long fairefair Dido shall I pine for thee ? Tis'Tis not enough that thou doestdost grauntgrant me louelove , But that I may enioyenjoy what I desire : That louelove is childish which consists in words . Dido . IarbusIarbas , know that thou of all my wooers ( And yet hauehave I had many mightier Kings ) Hast had the greatest fauoursfavours I could giuegive : I fearefear me Dido hath been counted light , In being too familiar with IarbusIarbas : Albeit the Gods doedo know no wanton thought Had euerever residence in DidosDido's breast . Iar. But Dido is the fauourfavour I request . Dido . FeareFear not IarbusIarbas , Dido may be thine . Anna . LookeLook sister how Aeneas little sonneson PlayesPlays with your garments and imbracethembraceth you . Cupid . No Dido will not take me in her armesarms , I shall not be her sonneson , she louesloves me not . Dido . WeepeWeep not sweet boy , thou shalt be DidosDido's sonneson , Sit in my lap and let me hearehear thee sing . No more my child , now talketalk another while , And tell me where learnstlearnest thou this pretiepretty song ? Cupid . My cosincousin Helen taught it me in Troy . Dido . How louelylovely is Ascanius when he smiles ? Cupid . Will Dido let me hang about her neckeneck ? Dido . I waggewag , and giuegive thee leaueleave to kissekiss her to . Cupid . What will you giuegive me ? now IleI'll hauehave this FanneFan . Dido . Take it Ascanius , for thy fathersfather's sake . Iar. Come Dido , leaueleave Ascanius , let vsus walkewalk . Dido . GoeGo thou away , Ascanius shall stay . Iar. VngentleUngentle QueeneQueen , is this thy louelove to me ? Dido . O stay IarbusIarbas , and IleI'll goego with thee . Cupid . And if my mother goego , IleI'll follow her . Dido . Why staieststayest thou here ? thou art no louelove of mine ? Iar. IarbusIarbas dyedie , seeing she abandons thee . Dido . No , liuelive IarbusIarbas , what hast thou deseru'ddeserved , That I should say thou art no louelove of mine ? Something thou hast deseru'ddeserved , away I say , Depart from Carthage , come not in my sight . Iar. Am I not King of rich Getulia ? Dido . IarbusIarbas pardon me , and stay a while . Cupid . Mother , lookelook here . Dido . What telsttell'st thou me of rich Getulia ? Am not I QueeneQueen of LibiaLibya ? then depart . Iar. I goego to feed the humour of my LoueLove , Yet not from Carthage for a thousand worlds . Dido . IarbusIarbas . Iar. Doth Dido call me backeback ? Dido . No , but I charge thee neuernever lookelook on me . Iar. Then pull out both mine eyes , or let me dyedie . Exit Iarb. Anna . Wherefore doth Dido bid IarbusIarbas goego ? Dido . Because his lothsomeloathsome sight offends mine eye , And in my thoughts is shrin'dshrined another Iouejove : OOh Anna , didst thou know how sweet louelove were , Full soonesoon wouldst thou abiureabjure this single life . Anna . PoorePoor soulesoul I know too well the sowersour of louelove , OOh that IarbusIarbas could but fanciefancy me . Dido . Is not Aeneas fairefair and beautifullbeautiful ? Anna . Yes , and IarbusIarbas foulefoul and fauourlesfavourless . Dido . Is he not eloquent in all his speech ? Anna . Yes , and IarbusIarbas rude and rusticallrustical . Dido . Name not IarbusIarbas , but sweetesweet Anna say , Is not Aeneas worthieworthy DidosDido's louelove ? Anna . O sister , were you EmpresseEmpress of the world , Aeneas well deseruesdeserves to be your louelove , So louelylovely is he that where ere he goes , The people swarmeswarm to gaze him in the face . Dido . But tell them none shall gaze on him but I , Lest their grossegross eye-beameseye-beams taint my louerslover's cheekescheeks : Anna , good sister Anna goego for him , Lest with these sweetesweet thoughts I melt cleaneclean away . Anna . Then sister youleyou'll abiureabjure IarbusIarbas louelove ? Dido . Yet must I hearehear that lothsomeloathsome name againeagain ? RunneRun for Aeneas , or IleI'll flyefly to him . Exit Anna . Cupid . You shall not hurt my father when he comes . Dido . No , for thy sake IleI'll louelove thy father well . O dull conceiptedconceited Dido , that till now Didst neuernever thinkethink Aeneas beautifullbeautiful : But now for quittance of this ouersightoversight , IleI'll make me bracelets of his golden hairehair , His glistering eyes shall be my looking glasseglass , His lips an altar , where IleI'll offer vpup As many kisses as the Sea hath sands , In stead of musickemusic I will hearehear him speakespeak , His lookeslooks shall be my only LibrarieLibrary , And thou Aeneas , DidosDido's treasurietreasury , In whose fairefair bosomebosom I will lockelock more wealth , ThenThan twentietwenty thousand Indiaes can affoordafford : OOh here he comes , louelove , louelove , giuegive Dido leaueleave To be more modest thenthan her thoughts admiradmire , Lest I be made a wonder to the world . Achates , how doth Carthage please your Lord ? Acha. That will Aeneas sheweshow your maiestiemajesty . Dido . Aeneas , art thou there ? Aen. I vnderstandunderstand your highnessehighness sent for me . Dido . No , but now thou art here , tell me in sooth In what might Dido highly pleasure thee . Aen. So much hauehave I receiu'dreceived at DidosDido's hands , As without blushing I can askeask no more : Yet QueeneQueen of AffrickeAfric are my ships vnrigdunrigged , My SailesSails all rent in sunder with the windewind , My OaresOars broken , and my Tackling lost , Yea all my NauieNavy split with RockesRocks and ShelfesShelves : Nor SterneStern nor Anchor hauehave our maimed FleeteFleet , Our Masts the furious windeswinds strookestruck ouerover bourdboard : Which piteous wants if Dido will suppliesupply , We will account her author of our liueslives . Dido . Aeneas , IleI'll repairerepair thy TroianTrojan ships , Conditionally that thou wilt stay with me , And let Achates sailesail to Italy : IleI'll giuegive thee tackling made of riueldriveled gold , Wound on the barkesbarks of odoriferous trees , OaresOars of massiemassy Iuorieivory full of holes , Through which the water shall delight to play : Thy Anchors shall be hewed from ChristallCrystal RockesRocks , Which if thou lose shall shine aboueabove the waueswaves : The Masts whereon thy swelling sailessails shall hang , Hollow PyramidesPyramids of siluersilver plate : The sailessails of fouldedfolded LawneLawn , where shall be wrought The warreswars of Troy , but not TroyesTroy's ouerthrowoverthrow : For ballaceballast , emptieempty DidosDido's treasurietreasury , Take what ye will , but leaueleave Aeneas here . Achates , thou shalt be so meanly clad , As SeaborneSeaborn NymphesNymphs shall swarmeswarm about thy ships , And wanton MermaidesMermaids court thee with sweetesweet songs , Flinging in fauoursfavours of more soueraignesovereign worth , ThenThan Thetis hangs about ApolloesApollo's neckeneck , So that Aeneas may but stay with me . Aen. Wherefore would Dido hauehave Aeneas stay ? Dido . To warrewar against my bordering enemies : Aeneas , thinkethink not Dido is in louelove : For if that any man could conquer me , I had been wedded ere Aeneas came : See where the pictures of my suiterssuitors hang , And are not these as fairefair as fairefair may be ? Acha. I saw this man at Troy ere Troy was sacktsacked . Aen. I this in Greece when Paris stole fairefair Helen . Illio. This man and I were at Olympus games . Serg. I know this face , he is a Persian borneborn , I traueldtravelled with him to Aetolia . Cloan. And I in Athens with this gentleman , VnlesseUnless I be deceiu'ddeceived disputed once . Dido . But speakespeak Aeneas , know you none of these ? Aen. No Madamemadam , but it seemesseems that these are Kings . Dido . All those and others which I neuernever sawesaw , HaueHave been most vrgenturgent suiterssuitors for my louelove , Some came in person , others sent their LegatsLegates : Yet none obtaindobtained me , I am free from all , And yet God knowesknows intangledentangled vntounto one . This was an Orator , and thought by words To compassecompass me , but yet he was deceiu'ddeceived : And this a Spartan Courtier vainevain and wildewild , But his fantastickfantastic humours pleasdepleased not me : This was AlcionAltion , a MusitionMusician , But playdplayed he nerene'er so sweet , I let him goego : This was the wealthiewealthy King of Thessaly , But I had gold enough and cast him off : This MeleagersMeleager's sonneson , a warlike Prince , But weapons gree'gree not with my tender yearesyears : The rest are such as all the world well knowesknows , Yet how I sweareswear by heauenheaven and him I louelove , I was as farrefar from louelove , as they from hate . Aen. O happiehappy shall he be whom Dido louesloves . Dido . Then neuernever say that thou art miserable , Because it may be thou shalt be my louelove : Yet boast not of it , for I louelove thee not , And yet I hate thee not : OOh if I speakespeak I shall betray my selfemyself : Aeneas speakespeak , We two will goego a hunting in the woods , But not so much for thee , thou art but one , As for Achates , and his followers . Exeunt . Enter Iunojuno to Ascanius asleepeasleep . Iunojuno . Here lyeslies my hate , Aeneas cursed brat , The boy wherein false destiniedestiny delights , The heireheir of furiefury , the fauoritefavourite of the face , That vglyugly impeimp that shall outweareoutwear my wrath , And wrong my deitiedeity with high disgrace : But I will take another order now , And race th'eternallth'eternal Register of time : Troy shall no more call him her second hope , Not VenusVenus' triumph in his tender youth : For here in spightspite of heauenheaven IleI'll murder him , And feedefeed infection with his left out life : Say Paris , now shall Venus hauehave the ball ? Say vengeance , now shall her Ascanius dyedie . O no God wot , I cannot watch my time , Nor quit good turnesturns with double fee downedown told : Tut , I am simple without made to hurt , And hauehave no gall at all to grieuegrieve my foes : But lustfulllustful Iouejove and his adulterous child , Shall findefind it written on confusionsconfusion's front , That onelyonly Iunojuno rules in RhamnuseRhamnus' townetown . Enter Venus . Venus . What should this meanemean ? my DouesDoves are back returndreturned , Who warnewarn me of such daungerdanger prestpressed at hand , To harmeharm my sweetesweet Ascanius louelylovely life . Iunojuno , my mortallmortal foe , what make you here ? AuauntAvant old witch and trouble not my wits . Iunojuno . Fie Venus , that such causelescauseless words of wrath , Should ere defile so fairefair a mouth as thine : Are not we both sprongsprung of celestiallcelestial raserace , And banquet as two Sisters with the Gods ? Why is it then displeasure should disioynedisjoin , Whom kindred and acquaintance counitesco-unites . Venus . Out hatefullhateful hag , thou wouldst hauehave slaineslain my sonneson , Had not my DouesDoves discou'rddiscovered thy ententintent : But I will tearetear thy eyes fro forth thy head , And feast the birds with their bloud-shottenbloodshotten ballesballs , If thou but lay thy fingers on my boy . Iunojuno . Is this then all the thankesthanks that I shall hauehave , For sauingsaving him from Snakes and Serpents stings , That would hauehave kildkilled him sleeping as he lay ? What though I was offended with thy sonneson , And wrought him mickle woe on sea and land , When for the hate of TroianTrojan GanimedGanymede , That was aduancedadvanced by my HebesHebe's shame , And Paris iudgementjudgement of the heauenlyheavenly ball , I mustredmustered all the windeswinds vntounto his wrackewrack , And vrg'durged each Element to his annoy : Yet now I doedo repent me of his ruth , And wish that I had neuernever wrongdwronged him so : BootlesBootless I sawesaw it was to warrewar with fate , That hath so many vnresistedunresisted friends : Wherefore I chaungechange my counsellcounsel with the time , And planted louelove where enuieenvy erst had sprongsprung . Venus . Sister of Iouejove , if that thy louelove be such , As these thy protestations doedo paint forth , We two as friends one fortune will deuidedivide : Cupid shall lay his arrowesarrows in thy lap , And to a ScepterSceptre chaungechange his golden shafts , FancieFancy and modestiemodesty shall liuelive as mates , And thy fairefair peacockespeacocks by my pigeons pearchperch : LoueLove my Aeneas , and desire is thine , The day , the night , my SwannesSwans , my sweetessweets are thine . Iunojuno . More thenthan melodious are these words to me , That ouercloyovercloy my soulesoul with their content : Venus , sweetesweet Venus , how may I deseruedeserve Such amourousamorous fauoursfavours at thy beautiousbeauteous hand ? But that thou maistmayst more easilieeasily perceiueperceive , How highly I doedo prize this amitieamity , HarkeHark to a motion of eternalleternal league , Which I will make in quittance of thy louelove : Thy sonneson thou knowest with Dido now remainesremains , And feedesfeeds his eyes with fauoursfavours of her Court , She likewise in admyringadmiring spends her time , And cannot talketalk nor thinkethink of oughtaught but him : Why should not they then ioynejoin in marriage , And bring forth mightiemighty Kings to Carthage townetown , Whom casualtiecasualty of sea hath made such friends ? And Venus , let there be a match confirmdconfirmed Betwixt these two , whose louesloves are so alike , And both our Deities conioyndconjoined in one , Shall chainechain felicitiefelicity vntounto their throne . Venus . Well could I like this reconcilements meanesmeans , But much I fearefear my sonneson will nerene'er consent , Whose armed soulesoul alreadiealready on the sea , Darts forth her light to Lauiniaslavinia's shoareshore . Iunojuno . FaireFair QueeneQueen of louelove , I will deuorcedivorce these doubts , And findefind the way to wearieweary such fond thoughts : This day they both a hunting forth will ride Into these woods , adioyningadjoining to these walleswalls , When in the midst of all their game some sports , IleI'll make the ClowdesClouds dissoluedissolve their watriewatery workesworks , And drench SiluanusSilvanus dwellings with their shewersshowers , Then in one CaueCave the QueeneQueen and he shall meetemeet , And interchangeably discourse their thoughts , Whose short conclusion will sealeseal vpup their hearts , VntoUnto the purpose which we now propound . Venus . Sister , I see you sauoursavour of my wiles , Be it as you will hauehave for this once , MeaneMean time , Ascanius shall be my charge , Whom I will bearebear to Ida in mine armesarms , And couch him in AdonisAdonis' purple downedown . Exeunt . Enter Dido , Aeneas , Anna , Iarbusjarbus , Achates , and followers . Dido . Aeneas , thinkethink not but I honorhonour thee , That thus in person goego with thee to hunt : My princely robes thou seest are laydlaid aside , Whose glittering pompepomp DianasDiana's shrowdesshrouds supplies , All fellowesfellows now disposdedisposed alike to sportesport , The woods are wide , and we hauehave store of game : FaireFair TroianTrojan , hold my golden bowebow a while , VntillUntil I gird my quiuerquiver to my side : Lords goego before , we two must talketalk alone . Iar. VngentleUngentle , can she wrong IarbusIarbas so ? IleI'll dyedie before a stranger hauehave that grace : We two will talketalk alone , what words be these ? Dido . What makes IarbusIarbas here of all the rest ? We could hauehave gone without your companiecompany . Aen. But louelove and duetieduty led him on perhaps , To pressepress beyond acceptance to your sight . Iar. Why man of Troy , doedo I offend thine eyes ? Or art thou grieudegrieved thy betters pressepress so nyenigh ? Dido . How now Getulian , are ye grownegrown so brauebrave , To challenge vsus with your comparisons ? PesantPeasant , goego seekeseek companions like thy selfethyself , And meddle not with any that I louelove : Aeneas , be not moudemoved at what he sayessays , For otherwhile he will be out of ioyntjoint . Iar. Women may wrong by priuiledgeprivilege of louelove : But should that man of men ( Dido except ) HaueHave taunted me in these opprobrious termesterms , I would hauehave either drunkedrunk his dying bloudblood , Or elselse I would hauehave giuengiven my life in gage ? Dido . Huntsmen , why pitch you not your toylestoils apace , And rowserouse the light footefoot Deeredeer from forth their lairelair . Anna . Sister , see see Ascanius in his pompepomp , Bearing his huntspearehuntspear brauelybravely in his hand . Dido . Yea little sonneson , are you so forward now ? Asca. I mother I shall one day be a man , And better able vntounto other armesarms , MeaneMean time these wanton weapons serueserve my warrewar , Which I will breakebreak betwixt a LyonsLion's jawesjaws . Dido . What , darest thou lookelook a LyonLion in the face ? Asca. Iay , and outface him to , doedo what he can . Anna . How like his father speaketh he in all ? Aen. And moughtmight I liuelive to see him sackesack rich Thebes , And loadeload his spearespear with Grecian Princesprinces' heads , Then would I wish me with Anchises TombeTomb , And dead to honour that hath brought me vpup . Iar. And might I liuelive to see thee shiptshipped away , And hoysthoist aloft on NeptunesNeptune's hideous hilleshills , Then would I wish me in fairefair DidosDido's armesarms , And dead to soonesoon that hath pursued me so . Aen. StouteStout friend Achates , doestdost thou know this wood ? Acha. As I remember , here you shot the Deeredeer , That sau'dsaved your famishtfamished souldierssoldiers liueslives from death , When first you set your footefoot vponupon the shoareshore , And here we met fairefair VenusVenus' virginevirgin like , Bearing her bowebow and quiuerquiver at her backeback . Aen. O how these irksome labours now delight , And ouerioyoverioy my thoughts with their escape : Who would not vndergoeundergo all kind of toyletoil , To be well stor'dstored with such a winterswinter's tale ? Dido . Aeneas , leaueleave these dumpesdumps and letslet's away , Some to the mountainesmountains some vntounto the soylesoil , You to the valliesvalleys , thou vntounto the house . Exeunt omnes , manent . Iar. Iay , this it is which wounds me to the death , To see a Phrigianphrygian far set to the sea , PreferdPreferred before a man of maiestiesmajesties OOh louelove , OOh hate , OOh cruellcruel womenswomen's hearts , That imitate the MooneMoon in eueryevery chaungechange . And like the Planets euerever louelove to raungerange : What shall I doedo thus wronged with disdainedisdain ? ReuengeRevenge me on Aeneas or on her : On her ? fond man , that were to warrewar gainst'gainst heauenheaven , And with one shaft prouokeprovoke ten thousand darts : This TroiansTrojans end will be thy enuiesenvies aimeaim , Whose bloudblood will reconcile thee to content , And make louelove drunken with thy sweetesweet desire : But Dido that now holdeth him so dearedear , Will dyedie with very tidings of his death : But time will discontinue her content , And mould her mindemind vntounto newenew fancies shapes : OOh God of heauenheaven , turneturn the hand of fate VntoUnto that happiehappy day of my delight , And then , what then ? IarbusIarbas shall but louelove : So doth he now , though not with equallequal gainegain , That resteth in the riuallrival of thy painepain , Who nerene'er will cease to soaresoar till he be slaineslain . Exit . The stormestorm . Enter Aeneas and Dido in the CaueCave at seuerallseveral times . Dido . Aeneas . Aen. Dido . Dido . Tell me dearedear louelove , how found you out this CaueCave ? Aen. By chance sweetesweet QueeneQueen , as Mars and Venus met . Dido . Why , that was in a net , where we are loose , And yet I am not free , oho would I were . Aen. Why , what is it that Dido may desire And not obtaineobtain , be it in humainehuman power ? Dido . The thing that I will dyedie before I askeask , And yet desire to hauehave before I dyedie . Aen. It is not oughtaught Aeneas may atchieueachieve ? Dido . Aeneas no although his eyes doedo pearcepierce . Aen. What , hath IarbusIarbas angredangered her in oughtaught ? And will she be auengedavenged on his life ? Dido . Not angredangered me , except in angringangering thee . Aen. Who then of all so cruellcruel may he be , That should detainedetain thy eye in his defects ? Dido . The man that I doedo eye where ere I am , Whose amorous face like Pean sparkles fire , When aswhenas he butsbutts his beamesbeams on FlorasFlora's bed , Prometheus hath put on CupidsCupid's shape , And I must perish in his burning armesarms : Aeneas , OOh Aeneas , quench these flames . Aen. What ailesails my QueeneQueen , is she falnefallen sickesick of late ? Dido . Not sickesick my louelove , but sickesick , I must concealeconceal The torment , that it bootesboots me not reuealereveal , And yet IleI'll speakespeak , and yet IleI'll hold my peace , DoeDo shame her worst , I will disclose my griefegrief : Aeneas , thou art he , what did I say ? Something it was that now I hauehave forgot . Aen. What meanesmeans fairefair Dido by this doubtfulldoubtful speech ? Dido . Nay , nothing , but Aeneas louesloves me not . Aen. Aeneas thoughts dare not ascend so high As DidosDido's heart , which MonarkesMonarchs might not scale . Dido . It was because I sawesaw no King like thee , Whose golden CrowneCrown might ballancebalance my content : But now that I hauehave found what to effect , I followefollow one that louethloveth fame for me , And rather had seemeseem fairefair Sirens eyes , Then to the Carthage QueeneQueen that dyesdies for him . Aen. If that your maiestiemajesty can lookelook so lowelow , As my despised worths , that shun all praise , With this my hand I giuegive to you my heart , And vow by all the Gods of HospitalitieHospitality , By heauenheaven and earth , and my fairefair brothersbrother's bowebow , By Paphos , Capys , and the purple Sea , From whence my radiant mother did descend , And by this Sword that sauedsaved me from the GreekesGreeks , NeuerNever to leaueleave these newenew vprearedupreared walleswalls , Whiles Dido liueslives and rules in IunosJuno's townetown , NeuerNever to like or louelove any but her . Dido . What more thenthan delian musickemusic doedo I hearehear , That callescalls my soulesoul from forth his liuingliving seateseat , To mouemove vntounto the measures of delight : Kind clowdesclouds that sent forth such a curteouscourteous stormestorm , As made disdainedisdain to flyefly to fanciesfancy's lap : StouteStout louelove in mine armesarms make thy Italy , Whose CrowneCrown and kingdomekingdom rests at thy commandecommand : SicheusSichaeus , not Aeneas be thou caldecalled : The King of Carthage , not Anchises sonneson : Hold , take these Iewelsjewels at thy Louerslover's hand , These golden bracelets , and this wedding ring , Wherewith my husband woo'dwooed me yet a maidemaid , And be thou king of LibiaLibya , by my guiftgift . Exeunt to the Caus.
Actus 4. ScenaScaena I. Enter Achates , Ascanius , Iarbusjarbus , and Anna . Acha. Did euerever men see such a sudden stormestorm ? Or day so cleereclear so suddenly orecasto'ercast ? Iar. I thinkethink some fell InchantresseEnchantress dwelleth here , That can call them forth when aswhenas she please , And diuedive into blackeblack tempeststempest's treasurietreasury , When aswhenas she meanesmeans to maskemask the world with clowdesclouds . Anna . In all my life I neuernever knew the like , It haildhailed , it snowdesnowed , it lightnedlightened all at once . Acha. I thinkethink it was the diuelsdevil's reuellingrevelling night , There was such hurly burlyhurly-burly in the heauensheavens : DoubtlesDoubtless ApollosApollo's AxeltreeAxletree is cracktcracked , Or aged AtlasAtlas' shoulder out of ioyntjoint , The motion was so ouerover violent . Iar. In all this coylecoil , where hauehave ye left the QueeneQueen ? Asca. Nay , where is my warlike father , can you tell ? Anna . Behold where both of them come forth the CaueCave . Iar. Come forth the CaueCave : can heauenheaven endure this sight ? IarbusIarbas , curse that vnreuengingunrevenging Iouejove , Whose flintieflinty darts slept in TiphousTyphoeus' den , Whiles these adulterorsadulterers surfettedsurfeited with sinnesin : Nature , why mad'stmadest me not some poysonouspoisonous beast , That with the sharpnessharpness of my edged sting , I might hauehave staktestaked them both vntounto the earth , Whil'stWhilst they were sporting in this darksome CaueCave ? Aen. The ayreair is cleereclear , and SoutherneSouthern windeswinds are whist , Come Dido , let vsus hasten to the townetown , Since gloomiegloomy Aeolus doth cease to frownefrown . Dido . Achates and Ascanius , well met . Aen. FaireFair Anna , how escaptescaped you from the shower ? Anna . As others did , by running to the wood . Dido But where were you IarbusIarbas all this while ? Iar. Not with Aeneas in the vglyugly CaueCave . Dido . I see Aeneas sticketh in your mindemind , But I will soonesoon put by that stumbling blockeblock , And quell those hopes that thus employ your earesears . Exeunt . Enters Iarbusjarbus to SacrifizeSacrifice . Iar. Come seruantsservants , come bring forth the SacrifizeSacrifice , That I may pacifiepacify that gloomiegloomy Iouejove , Whose emptieempty Altars hauehave enlarg'denlarged our illesills . EternallEternal Iouejove , great master of the ClowdesClouds , Father of gladnessegladness , and all frollickefrolic thoughts , That with thy gloomiegloomy hand corrects the heauenheaven , When ayrieairy creatures warrewar amongst themseluesthemselves : HeareHear , hearehear , OOh hearehear IarbusIarbas plaining prayers , Whose hideous ecchoesechoes make the welkin howlehowl , And all the woods Eliza to resound : The woman that thou wild vsus entertaineentertain , Where straying in our borders vpup and downedown , She crau'dcraved a hide of ground to build a townetown , With whom we did deuidedivide both laweslaws and land , And all the fruitesfruits that plentieplenty elselse sends forth , Scorning our louesloves and royallroyal marriage rites , YeeldsYields vpup her beautiebeauty to a strangersstranger's bed , Who hauinghaving wrought her shame , is straight way fled : Now if thou beest a pitying God of power , On whom ruth and compassion euerever waiteswaits , RedresseRedress these wrongs , and warnewarn him to his ships , That now afflicts me with his flattering eyes . Enter Anna . Anna . How now IarbusIarbas , at your prayers so hard ? Iar. I Anna , is there oughtaught you would with me ? Anna . Nay , no such waightieweighty businesbusiness of import , But may be slacktslacked vntilluntil another time : Yet if you would partake with me the cause Of this deuotiondevotion that detaineth you , I would be thankfullthankful for such curtesiecourtesy . Iar. Anna , against this TroianTrojan doedo I pray , Who seekesseeks to rob me of thy Sisterssister's louelove , And diuedive into her heart by coloured lookeslooks . Anna . Alas poorepoor King that labours so in vainevain , For her that so delighteth in thy painepain : Be tul'd by me , and seekeseek some other louelove , Whose yeeldingyielding heart may yeeldyield thee more relieferelief . Iar. Mine eye is fixtfixed where fanciefancy cannot start , OOh leaueleave me , leaueleave me to my silent thoughts , That register the numbers of my ruth , And I will either mouemove the thoughtlesthoughtless flint , Or drop out both mine eyes in drislingdrizzling tearestears , Before my sorrowessorrow's tide hauehave any stint . Anna . I will not leaueleave IarbusIarbas whom I louelove , In this delight of dying pensiuenespensiveness : Away with Dido , Anna be thy song , Anna that doth admire thee more thenthan heauenheaven . Iar. I may nor will list to such loathsome chaungechange , That intercepts the course of my desire : SeruantsServants , come fetch these emptieempty vessels here , For I will flyefly from these alluring eyes , That doedo pursue my peace where ere it goes . Exit . Anna . IarbusIarbas stay , louingloving IarbusIarbas stay , For I hauehave honey to present thee with : Hard hearted , wilt not deignedeign to hearehear me speakespeak , IleI'll follow thee with outcryesoutcries nerenear the lesseless , And strewestrew thy walkeswalks with my discheuelddisheveled hairehair . Exit . Enter Aeneas alone . Aen. Carthage , my friendly host adueadieu , Since destiniedestiny doth call me from the shoareshore : Hermes this night descending in a dreamedream , Hath summondsummoned me to fruitfullfruitful Italy : Iouejove wilswills it so , my mother wilswills it so : Let my PhenissaPhoenissa grauntgrant , and then I goego : GrauntGrant she or no , Aeneas must away , Whose golden fortunes clogdclogged with courtly ease , Cannot ascend to FamesFame's immortallimmortal house , Or banquet in bright honorshonour's burnishtburnished hall , Till he hath furrowed NeptunesNeptune's glassieglassy fieldesfields , And cut a passage through his toplestopless hilleshills : Achates come forth , Sergestus , Illioneus , Cloanthus , haste away , Aeneas callescalls . Enter Achates , Cloanthus , Sergestus , and Illioneus . Acha. What willeswills our Lord , or wherefore did he call ? Aen. The dreamesdreams ( brauebrave mates ) that did beset my bed , When sleepesleep but newly had imbrastembraced the night , CommaundsCommands me leaueleave these vnrenownedunrenowned beamesbeams , Whereas NobilitieNobility abhors to stay , And none but base Aeneas will abide : AbourdAboard , abourdaboard , since Fates doedo bid abourdaboard , And slice the Sea with sable coloured ships , On whom the nimble windeswinds may all day waightweight , And follow them as footemenfootmen through the deepedeep : Yet Dido casts her eyes like anchors out , To stay my FleeteFleet from loosinglosing forth the Bay . Come backeback , come backeback , I hearehear her cryecry a farreafar , And let me linkelink my bodiebody to my lips , That tyedtied together by the striuing tongues , We may as one sailesail into Italy . Acha. Banish that ticing'ticing dame from forth your mouth , And follow your foreseeing starresstars in all ; This is no life for men at armesarms to liuelive , Where daliancedalliance doth consume a Souldierssoldier's strength , And wanton motions of alluring eyes , Effeminate our mindesminds inur'denured to warrewar . Illio. Why , let vsus build a CitieCity of our owneown , And not stand lingering here for amorous lookeslooks : Will Dido raise old Priam forth his grauegrave , And build the townetown againeagain the GreekesGreeks did burneburn ? No no , she cares not how we sinkesink or swimmeswim , So she may hauehave Aeneas in her armesarms . Cloan. To Italy , sweetesweet friends to Italy , We will not stay a minute longer here . Aen. TroiansTrojans abourdaboard , and I will follow you , I fainefain would goego , yet beautiebeauty callescalls me backeback : To leaueleave her so and not once say farewell , Were to transgressetransgress against all laweslaws of louelove : But if I vseuse such ceremonious thankesthanks , As parting friends accustomeaccustom on the shoareshore , Her siluersilver armesarms will coll me round about , And tearestears of pearlepearl , cryecry stay , Aeneas , stay : Each word she sayessays will then containecontain a CrowneCrown , And eueryevery speech be ended with a kissekiss : I may not dure this female drudgeriedrudgery , To sea Aeneas , findefind out Italy . Exit . Enter Dido and Anna . Dido . O Anna , runnerun vntounto the water side , They say Aeneas men are going abourdaboard , It may be he will stealesteal away with them : Stay not to answereanswer me , runnerun Anna runnerun . O foolish TroiansTrojans that would stealesteal from hence , And not let Dido vnderstandunderstand their drift : I would hauehave giuengiven Achates store of gold , And IllioneusIllioneus' gum and LibianLibyan spice , The common souldierssoldiers rich imbroderedembroidered coatescoats , And siluersilver whistles to controulecontrol the windeswinds , Which CircesCirce's sentscent SicheusSichaeus when he liuedlived : VnworthieUnworthy are they of a Queenesqueen's reward : See where they come , how might I doedo to chide ? Enter Anna , with Aeneas , Achates , Illioneus , and Sergestus . Anna . Twas'twas time to runnerun , Aeneas had been gone , The sailessails were hoysinghoisting vpup , and he abourdaboard . Dido . Is this thy louelove to me ? Aen. O princely Dido , giuegive me leaueleave to speakespeak , I went to take my farewell of Achates . Dido . How haps Achates bid me not farewell ? Acha. Because I feardfeared your grace would keepekeep me here , Dido . To rid thee of that doubt , abourdaboard againeagain , I charge thee put to sea and stay not here . Acha. Then let Aeneas goego abourdaboard with vsus . Dido . Get you abourdaboard , Aeneas meanesmeans to stay . Aen. The sea is rough , the windeswinds blow to the shoareshore . Dido . O false Aeneas , now the sea is rough , But when you were abourdaboard twas'twas calmecalm enough , Thou and Achates mentmeant to sailesail away . Aen. Hath not the Carthage QueeneQueen mine onelyonly sonneson ? ThinkesThinks Dido I will goego and leaueleave him here ? Dido . Aeneas pardon me , for I forgot That yongyoung Ascanius lay with me this night : LoueLove made me iealousjealous , but to make amends , WeareWear the emperiallimperial CrowneCrown of LibiaLibya , Sway thou the Punikepunic ScepterSceptre in my steedesteed , And punish me Aeneas for this crime . Aen. This kissekiss shall be fairefair DidosDido's punishment . Dido . O how a CrowneCrown becomes Aeneas head ! Stay here Aeneas , and commaundcommand as King . Aen. How vainevain am I to wearewear this Diadem , And bearebear this golden ScepterSceptre in my hand ? A Burgonet of steelesteel , and not a CrowneCrown , A Sword , and not a ScepterSceptre fits Aeneas . Dido . O keepekeep them still , and let me gaze my fill : Now lookeslooks Aeneas like immortallimmortal Iouejove , OOh where is GanimedGanymede to hold his cup , And Mercury to flyefly for what he callescalls , Ten thousand Cupids houerhover in the ayreair , And fannefan it in Aeneas louelylovely face , OOh that the ClowdesClouds were here wherein thou fleest , That thou and I vnseeneunseen might sport our seluesourselves : HeauensHeavens enuiousenvious of our ioyesjoys is waxen pale , And when we whisper , thenthan the starresstars fall downedown , To be partakers of our honey talketalk . Aen. O Dido , patronessepatroness of all our liueslives , When I leaueleave thee , death be my punishment , Swell raging seas , frownefrown wayward destinies , Blow windeswinds , threaten ye RockesRocks and sandiesandy shelfesshelves , This is the harbour that Aeneas seekesseeks , Letslet's see what tempests can anoyannoy me now . Dido . Not all the world can take thee from mine armesarms , Aeneas may commaundcommand as many MooresMoors , As in the Sea are little water drops : And now to make experience of my louelove , FaireFair sister Anna leadelead my louerlover forth , And seated on my Gennetjennet , let him ride As DidosDido's husband through the punickepunic streetesstreets , And will my guard with Mauritanian darts , To waitewait vponupon him as their soueraignesovereign Lord . Anna . What if the Citizens repine thereat ? Dido . Those that dislike what Dido giuesgives in charge , CommaundCommand my guard to slay for their offence : Shall vulgar pesantspeasants stormestorm at what I doedo ? The ground is mine that giuesgives them sustenance , The ayreair wherein they breathe , the water , fire , All that they hauehave their lands , their goods , their liueslives , And I the GoddesseGoddess of all these , commaundcommand Aeneas as Carthaginian King . Acha. Aeneas for his parentage deseruesdeserves As large a kingdomekingdom as is Labia . Aen. Iay , and vnlesseunless the destinies be false , I shall be planted in as rich a land . Dido . SpeakeSpeak of no other land , this land is thine , Dido is thine , henceforth IleI'll call thee Lord : DoeDo as I bid thee , sister leadelead the way , And from a turret IleI'll behold my louelove . Aen. Then here in me shall flourish PriamsPriam's race , And thou and I Achates , for reuengerevenge , For Troy , for Priam , for his fiftiefifty sonnessons , Our kinsmenskinsmen's louesloves , and thousand guiltlesguiltless soulessouls , Will leadelead an hostehost against the hatefullhateful GreekesGreeks , And fire proudeproud LacedemonLacedaemon oreo'er their heads . Exit . Dido . Speakers not Aeneas like a Conqueror ? O blessed tempests that did driuedrive him in , OOh happiehappy sand that made him runnerun aground : Henceforth you shall be our Carthage Gods : Iay , but it may be he will leaueleave my louelove , And seekeseek a forraineforeign land caldecalled Italy : OOh that I had a charmecharm to keepekeep the windeswinds Within the closure of a golden ball , Or that the Tyrrhen sea were in mine armesarms , That he might suffer shipwrackeshipwreck on my breast , As oft as he attempts to hoysthoist vpup sailesail : I must preuentprevent him , wishing will not serueserve : GoeGo , bid my Nurse take yongyoung Ascanius , And bearebear him in the countreycountry to her house , Aeneas will not goego without his sonneson : Yet lest he should , for I am full of fearefear , Bring me his oaresoars , his tackling , and his sailessails : What if I sinkesink his ships ? O heelehe'll frownefrown : Better he frownefrown , thenthan I should dyedie for griefegrief : I cannot see him frownefrown , it may not be : Armies of foes resolu'dresolved to winnewin this townetown , Or impious traitors vowdevowed to hauehave my life , Affright me not , onelyonly Aeneas frownefrown Is that which terrifies poorepoor DidosDido's heart : Not bloudiebloody spearesspears appearing in the ayreair , Presage the downfall of my EmperieEmpery , Nor blazing CommetsComets threatens DidosDido's death , It is Aeneas frownefrown that ends my daiesdays : If he forsake me not , I neuernever dyedie , For in his lookeslooks I see eternitieeternity , And heelehe'll make me immortallimmortal with a kissekiss . Enter a Lord . Your Nurse is gone with yongyoung Ascanius , And hereshere's Aeneas tackling , oaresoars and sailessails . Dido . Are these the sailessails that in despightdespite of me , PacktPacked with the windeswinds to bearebear Aeneas hence ? IleI'll hang ye in the chamber where I lyelie , DriueDrive if you can my house to Italy : IleI'll set the casement open that the windeswinds May enter in , and once againeagain conspire Against the life of me poorepoor Carthage QueeneQueen : But though he goego , he stayesstays in Carthage still , And let rich Carthage fleetefleet vponupon the seas , So I may hauehave Aeneas in mine armesarms . Is this the wood that grew in Carthage plainesplains , And would be toylingtoiling in the watriewatery billowesbillows , To rob their mistressemistress of her TroianTrojan guest ? O cursed tree , hadst thou but wit or sense , To measure how I prize Aeneas louelove , Thou wouldst hauehave leapt from out the SailersSailors hands , And told me that Aeneas mentmeant to goego : And yet I blame thee not , thou art but wood . The water which our Poets termeterm a NimphNymph , Why did it suffer thee to touch her breast , And shrunkeshrunk not backeback , knowing my louelove was there ? The water is an Element , no NimphNymph , Why should I blame Aeneas for his flight ? O Dido , blame not him , but breakebreak his oaresoars , These were the instruments that launchtlaunched him forth , Theresthere's not so much as this base tackling too , But dares to heapeheap vpup sorrowesorrow to my heart : Was it not you that hoysedhoist vpup these sailessails ? Why burst you not , and they fell in the seas ? For this will Dido tyetie ye full of knots , And sheeresheer ye all asunder with her hands : Now serueserve to chastizechastise shipboyesship-boys for their faults , Ye shall no more offend the Carthage QueeneQueen . Now let him hang my fauoursfavours on his masts , And see if those will serueserve in steedinstead of sailessails : For tackling , let him take the chaineschains of gold , Which I bestowdbestowed vponupon his followers : In steed of oaresoars , let him vseuse his hands , And swim to Italy , IleI'll keepekeep these sure : Come bearebear them in . Exit . Enter the Nurse with Cupid for Ascanius . Nurse . My Lord Ascanius , ye must goego with me . Cupid . Whither must I goego ? IleI'll stay with my mother . Nurse . No , thou shalt goego with me vntounto my house , I hauehave an Orchard that hath store of plums , Brownebrown Almonds , SeruisesServices , ripe Figs and Dates , Dewberriesdew-berries , Apples , yellow OrengesOranges , A garden where are Beebe hiueshives full of honey , Musk-roses , and a thousand sort of flowers , And in the midst doth run a siluersilver streamestream , Where thou shalt see the red gildgilled fishes leapeleap , White SwannesSwans , and many louelylovely water sowlessouls : Now speakespeak Ascanius , will ye goego or no ? Cupid . Come come IleI'll goego , how farrefar hence is your house ? Nurse . But hereby child , we shall get thither straight . Cupid . Nurse I am wearieweary , will you carriecarry me ? Nurse . Iay , so youleyou'll dwell with me and call me mother . Cupid . So youleyou'll louelove me , I care not if I doedo . Nurse . That I might liuelive to see this boy a man , How pretilieprettily he laughs , goego ye waggewag , YouleYou'll be a twigger when you come to age . Say Dido what she will I am not old , IleI'll be no more a widowewidow , I am young , IleI'll hauehave a husband , or elselse a louerlover . Cupid . A husband and no teeth ! Nurse . O what meanemean I to hauehave such foolish thoughts ! Foolish is louelove , a toy , OOh sacred louelove , If there be any heauenheaven in earth , tis'tis louelove : Especially in women of your yearesyears . Blush blush for shame , why shouldst thou thinkethink of louelove ? A grauegrave , and not a louerlover fits thy age : A grauegrave , why ? I may liuelive a hundred yearesyears , Fourescorefourscore is but a girlesgirl's age , louelove is sweetesweet : My vainesveins are withered , and my sinewessinews driedry , Why doedo I thinkethink of louelove now I should dyedie ? Cupid . Come Nurse . Nurse . Well , if he come a wooinga-wooing he shall speedespeed , OOh how vnwiseunwise was I to say him nay ! Exeunt .
Actus 5. Enter Aeneas with a paper in his hand , drawing the platformeplatform of the citiecity , with him Achates , Cloanthus , and Illioneus . Aen. Triumph my mates , our trauelstravels are at end . Here will Aeneas build a statelier Troy , Then that which grim Atrides ouerthrewoverthrew : Carthage shall vaunt her pettiepetty walleswalls no more , For I will grace them with a fairer frame , And clad her in a ChrystallCrystal liuerielivery , Wherein the day may euermoreevermore delight : From golden India Ganges will I fetch , Whose wealthiewealthy streamesstreams may waitewait vponupon her towers , And triple wise intrenchentrench her round about : The SunneSun from Egypt shall rich odorsodours bring , Where with his burning beamesbeams like labouring Bees , That loadeload their thighesthighs with HyblasHybla's honeys spoylesspoils , Shall here vnburdenunburden their exhaled sweetessweets , And plant our pleasant suburbessuburbs with her fumes . Acha. What length or bredthbreadth shalshall this brauebrave townetown cōtainecontain ? Aen. Not past fourefour thousand paces at the most . Illio. But what shall it be caldecalled , Troy as before ? Aen. That hauehave I not determindedetermined with my selfemyself . Cloan. Let it be term'dtermed Aenea by your name . Serg. Rather Ascania by your little sonneson . Aen. Nay , I will hauehave it caldecalled Anchisaon , Of my old fathersfather's name . Enter Hermes with Ascanius . Hermes . Aeneas stay , Iouesjove's Herald bids thee stay . Aen. Whom doedo I see , Iouesjove's winged messenger ? Welcome to Carthage new erected townetown . Hermes . Why cosincousin stand you building Cities here , And beautifying the Empire of this QueeneQueen , While Italy is cleaneclean out of thy mindemind ? To too forgetfullforgetful of thine owneown affayresaffairs , Why wilt thou so betray thy sonnessons good hap ? The king of Gods sent me from highest heauenheaven , To sound this angrieangry message in thine earesears . VaineVain man , what Monarkymonarchy expectstexpectest thou here ? Or with what thought sleepstsleepest thou in LibiaLibya shoareshore ? If that all glorieglory hath forsaken thee , And thou despise the praise of such attempts : Yet thinkethink vponupon Ascanius prophesieprophecy , And yongyoung Iulusjulus more thenthan thousand yearesyears , Whom I hauehave brought from Ida where he slept , And bore yongyoung Cupid vntounto CypresseCypress IleI'll . Aen. This was my mother that bebeguiled the QueeneQueen , And made me take my brother for my sonneson : No maruellmarvel Dido though thou be in louelove , That dayliedaily danglest Cupid in thy armesarms : Welcome sweet child , where hast thou been this long ? Asca. Eating sweet ComfitesComfits with QueeneQueen DidosDido's maidemaid , Who euersinceeversince hath luldlulled me in her armesarms . Aen. Sergestus , bearebear him hence vntounto our ships , Lest Dido spying him keepekeep him for a pledge . Hermes . Spendst thou thy time about this little boy , And giuestgivest not eareear vntounto the charge I bring ? I tell thee thou must straight to Italy , Or elselse abide the wrath of frowning Iouejove . Aen. How should I put into the raging deepedeep , Who hauehave no sailessails nor tackling for my ships ? What would the Gods hauehave me Deucalion like , FloteFloat vpup and downedown where ere the billowesbillows driuedrive ? Though she repairderepaired my fleetefleet and gauegave me ships , Yet hath she taneta'en away my oaresoars and masts , And left me neither sailesail nor sternestern abourdaboard . Enter to them Iarbusjarbus . Iar. How now Aeneas , sad , what meanesmeans these dumpesdumps ? Aen. IarbusIarbas , I am cleaneclean besides my selfemyself , Iouejove hath heaptheaped on me such a desperate charge , Which neither art nor reason may atchieueachieve , Nor I deuisedevice by what meanesmeans to contriuecontrive . Iar. As how I pray , may I entreateentreat you tell . Aen. With speedespeed he bids me sailesail to Italy , When aswhenas I want both rigging for my fleetefleet , And also furniture for these my men . Iar. If that be all , thenthan chearecheer thy drooping lookeslooks , For I will furnish thee with such supplies : Let some of those thy followers goego with me , And they shall hauehave what thing so eresoe'er thou needst . Aen. ThankesThanks good IarbusIarbas for thy friendly aydeaid , Achates and the rest shall waitewait on thee , Whil'stWhilst I rest thankfullthankful for this curtesiecourtesy . Exit Iarbusjarbus and Aeneas trainetrain . Now will I haste vntounto Lauinianlavinian shoareshore , And raise a new foundation to old Troy , WitnesWitness the Gods , and witneswitness heauenheaven and earth , How lothloath I am to leaueleave these LibianLibyan bounds , But that eternalleternal Iupiterjupiter commands . Enter Dido and Aeneas . Dido . I fearefear I sawesaw Aeneas little sonneson , Led by Achates to the TroianTrojan fleetefleet : If it be so , his father meanesmeans to flyefly : But here he is , now Dido trietry thy wit . Aeneas , wherefore goego thy men abourdaboard ? Why are thy ships new rigdrigged ? or to what end LaunchtLaunched from the hauenhaven , lyelie they in the Rhode ? Pardon me though I askeask , louelove makes me askeask . Aen. O pardon me , if I resolueresolve thee why : Aeneas will not fainefeign with his dearedear louelove , I must from hence : this day swift Mercury When I was laying a platformeplatform for these walleswalls , Sent from his father Iouejove , appeardappeared to me , And in his name rebuktrebuked me bitterly , For lingering here , neglecting Italy . Dido . But yet Aeneas will not leaueleave his louelove . Aen. I am commaundedcommanded by immortallimmortal Iouejove , To leaueleave this townetown and passepass to Italy , And therefore must of force . Dido . These words proceed not from Aeneas heart . Aen. Not from my heart , for I can hardly goego , And yet I may not stay , Dido farewell . Dido . Farewell : is this the mends for DidosDido's louelove ? Doedo TroiansTrojans vseuse to quit their LouersLovers thus ? Fare well may Dido , so Aeneas stay , I dyedie , if my Aeneas say farewell . Aen. Then let me goego and neuernever say farewell , Let me goego , farewell , I must from hence . Dido . These words are poysonpoison to poorepoor DidosDido's soulesoul , OOh speakespeak like my Aeneas , like my louelove : Why look'stlookest thou towardtowards the sea ? the time hath been When DidosDido's beautiebeauty chaungdchanged thine eyes to her : Am I lesseless fairefair thenthan when thou sawest me first ? O then Aeneas , tis'tis for griefegrief of thee : Say thou wilt stay in Carthage with my QueeneQueen , And DidosDido's beautiebeauty will returnereturn againeagain : Aeneas , say , how canst thou take thy leaueleave ? Wilt thou kissekiss Dido ? O thy lips hauehave swornesworn To stay with Dido : canst thou take her hand ? Thy hand and mine have plighted mutuallmutual faith , Therefore vnkindunkind Aeneas , must thou say , Then let me goego , and neuernever say farewell . Aen. O QueeneQueen of Carthage , wert thou vglyugly blackeblack , Aeneas could not choose but hold thee dearedear , Yet must he not gainsay the GodsGod's behest . Dido . The Gods , what Gods be those that seekeseek my death ? Wherein hauehave I offended Iupiterjupiter , That he should take Aeneas from mine armesarms ? O no , the Gods weyweigh not what LouersLovers doedo , It is Aeneas callescalls Aeneas hence , And wofullwoeful Dido by these blubbredblubbered cheekescheeks , By this right hand , and by our spousallspousal rites , Desires Aeneas to remaineremain with her : Si benebeen quid de te merui , fuit aut tibi quidquam Dulce meum , miserere domus labentis : &et 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 vpup in armesarms , for making thee my louelove ? How Carthage did rebellrebel , Iarbusjarbus' stormestorm , And all the world callescalls me a second Helen , For being intangledentangled by a strangersstranger's lookeslooks : So thou wouldst proueprove as true as Paris did , Would , as fairefair Troy was , Carthage might be sacktsacked , And I be caldecalled a second Helena . Had I a sonneson by thee , the griefegrief were lesseless , That I might see Aeneas in his face : Now if thou goest , what canst thou leaueleave behind , But rather will augment then case my woe ? Aen. In vainevain my louelove thou spendst thy fainting breath , If words might mouemove me I were ouercomeovercome . Dido . And wilt thou not be mou'dmoved with DidosDido's words ? Thy mother was no GoddesseGoddess periurdperjured man , Nor Dardanus the author of thy flockeflock : But thou art sprung from Scythian Caucasus , And TygersTigers of HircaniaHyrcania gauegave thee suckesuck : Ah foolish Dido to forbeareforbear this long ! Wast thou not wracktwracked vponupon this LibianLibyan shoareshore , And cam'st to Dido like a Fisher swaineswain ? RepairdeRepaired not I thy ships , made thee a King , And all thy needieneedy followers Noblemen ? O Serpent that came creeping from the shoareshore , And I for pitiepity harbordharboured in my bosomebosom , Wilt thou now flay me with thy venomed sting , And hissehiss at Dido for preseruingpreserving thee ? GoeGo goego and spare not , seekeseek out Italy , I hope that that which louelove forbids me doedo , The RockesRocks and Sea-gulfessea-gulfs will performeperform at large , And thou shalt perish in the billowesbillows waiesways , To whom poorepoor Dido doth bequeath reuengerevenge , I traytortraitor , and the waueswaves shall cast thee vpup , Where thou and false Achates first set footefoot : Which if it chauncechance , IleI'll giuegive ye buriallburial , And weepeweep vponupon your liueleslifeless carcases , Though thou nor he will pitiepity me a whit . Why star'ststarest thou in my face ? if thou wilt stay , LeapeLeap in mine armesarms , mine armesarms are open wide : If not , turneturn from me , and IleI'll turneturn from thee : For though thou hast the heart to say farewell , I hauehave not power to stay thee : is he gone ? I but heelehe'll come againeagain , he cannot goego , He louesloves me to too well to serueserve 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 SailersSailors take him by the hand , But he shrinkesshrinks backeback , and now remembringremembering me , ReturnesReturns amaineamain : welcome , welcome my louelove : But whereswhere's Aeneas ? ah heeshe's gone heeshe's gone ! Anna . What meanesmeans my sister thus to rauerave and cryecry ? Dido . O Anna , my Aeneas is abourdaboard , And leauingleaving me will sailesail to Italy . Once didst thou goego , and he came backeback againeagain , Now bring him backeback , and thou shalt be a QueeneQueen , And I will liuelive a priuateprivate life with him . Anna . Wicked Aeneas . Dido . Call him not wicked , sister speakespeak him fairefair , And lookelook vponupon him with a Mermaidesmermaid's eye , Tell him , I neuernever vow'dvowed at Aulis gulfegulf The desolation of his natiuenative Troy , Nor sent a thousand ships vntounto the walleswalls , Nor euerever violated faith to him : Request him gently ( Anna ) to returnereturn , I crauecrave but this , he stay a tide or two , That I may learnelearn to bearebear it patiently , If he depart thus suddenly , I dyedie : Run Anna , run , stay not to answereanswer me . Anna . I goego fairefair sister , heauensheavens grauntgrant good successesuccess . Exit Anna . Enter the Nurse . Nurse . O Dido , your little sonneson Ascanius Is gone ! he lay with me last night , And in the morning he was stolnestolen from me , I thinkethink some Fairies hauehave beguiled me . Dido . O cursed haggehag and false dissembling wretch ! That slayest me with thy harsh and hellish tale , Thou for some pettiepetty guiftgift hast let him goego , And I am thus deluded of my boy : Away with her to prison presently , Traytoressetraitoress too keendkeened and cursed SorceresseSorceress . Nurse . I know not what you meanemean by treason , Iay , I am as true as any one of yours . Exeunt the Nurse . Dido . Away with her , suffer her not to speakespeak . My sister comes , I like not her sad lookeslooks . Enter Anna . Anna . Before I came , Aeneas was abourdaboard , And spying me , hoysthoist vpup the sailessails amaineamain : But I cridecried out , Aeneas , false Aeneas stay . Then gan'gan he waggewag his hand , which yet held vpup , Made me suppose he would hauehave heard me speakespeak : Then gan'gan they driuedrive into the Ocean , Which when I viewdviewed , I cridecried , Aeneas stay , Dido , fairefair Dido wilswills Aeneas stay : Yet he whose heart of adamant or flint , My tearestears nor plaints could mollifiemollify a whit : Then careleslycarelessly I rent my hairehair for griefegrief , Which seeneseen to all , though he beheld me not , They gan'gan to mouemove him to redresseredress my ruth , And stay a while to hearehear what I could say , But he claptclapped vnderunder hatches saildsailed away . Dido . O Anna , Anna , I will follow him . Anna . How can ye goego when he hath all your fleetefleet ? Dido . He frame me wings of waxewax like Icarus , And oreo'er his ships will soaresoar vntounto the SunneSun , That they may melt and I fall in his armesarms : Or elselse IleI'll make a prayer vntounto the waueswaves , That I may swim to him like TritonsTriton's neeceniece : OOh Anna , fetch OrionsOrion's HarpeHarp , That I may tice'tice a Dolphin to the shoareshore , And ride vponupon his backeback vntounto my louelove : LookeLook sister , lookelook louelylovely Aeneas ships , See see , the billowesbillows heaueheave him vpup to heauenheaven , And now downedown fallesfalls the keeleskeels into the deepedeep : OOh sister , sister , take away the RockesRocks , Theilethey'll breakebreak his ships , OOh Proteus , Neptune , Iouejove , SaueSave , sauesave Aeneas , DidosDido's leefestliefest louelove ! Now is he come on shoareshore safe without hurt : But see , Achates wilswills him put to sea , And all the SailersSailors merriemerry make for ioyjoy , But he remembringremembering me shrinkesshrinks backeback againeagain : See where he comes , welcome , welcome my louelove . Anna . Ah sister , leaueleave these idle fantasies , Sweet sister cease , remember who you are . Dido . Dido I am , vnlesseunless I be deceiu'ddeceived , And must I rauerave thus for a runnagaterunagate ? Must I make ships for him to sailesail away ? Nothing can bearebear me to him but a ship , And he hath all thy fleetefleet , what shall I doedo But dyedie in furiefury of this ouersightoversight ? Iay , I must be the murderer of my selfemyself : No but I am not , yet I will be straight . Anna be glad , now hauehave I found a meanemean To rid me from these thoughts of LunacieLunacy : Not farrefar from hence there is a woman famoused for arts , Daughter vntounto the NimphsNymph's Hesperides , Who wildwilled me sacrifizesacrifice his ticing relliquesrelics : GoeGo Anna , bid my seruantsservants bring me fire . Exit Anna . Enter Iarbusjarbus . Iar. How long will Dido mournemourn a strangersstranger's flight , That hath dishonorddishonoured her and Carthage both ? How long shall I with griefegrief consume my daiesdays , And reapereap no guerdon for my truest louelove ? Dido . IarbusIarbas , talketalk not of Aeneas , let him goego , Lay to thy hands and helpehelp me make a fire , That shall consume all that this stranger left , For I entendintend a priuateprivate SacrifizeSacrifice , To cure my mindemind that melts for vnkindunkind louelove . Iar. But afterwards will Dido grauntgrant me louelove ? Dido . Iay , Iay , IarbusIarbas , after this is done , None in the world shall hauehave my louelove but thou : So , leaueleave me now , let none approach this place . Exit Iarbusjarbus . Now Dido , with these reliquesrelics burneburn thy selfethyself , And make Aeneas famous through the world , For periurieperjury and slaughter of a QueeneQueen : Here lyelie the Sword that in the darksome CaueCave He drew , and swore by to be true to me , Thou shalt burneburn first , thy crime is worse thenthan his : Here lyelie the garment which I cloath'dclothed him in , When first he came on shoareshore , perish thou to : These letters , lines , and periurdperjured papers all , Shall burneburn to cinders in this pretiousprecious flame . And now ye Gods that guide the starriestarry frame , And order all things at your high dispose , GrauntGrant , though the traytorstraitor's land in Italy , They may be still tormented with vnrestunrest , And from mine ashes let a ConquerourConqueror rise , That may reuengerevenge this treason to a QueeneQueen , By plowingploughing vpup his Countries with the Sword : Betwixt this land and that be neuernever league , Littora littoribus contraria , fluctibus vndasundas Impresor : arma armis : pugnent ipsique nepotes : LiueLive false Aeneas , truest Dido dyesdies , Sic sic iuuatiwat ire sub vmbrasumbras . Enter Anna . Anna . O helpehelp IarbusIarbas , Dido in these flames Hath burntburned her selfeherself , ayeay me , vnhappieunhappy me ! Enter Iarbusjarbus running . Iar. Cursed IarbusIarbas , dyedie to expiate The griefegrief that tires vponupon thine inward soulesoul , Dido I come to thee , ayeay me Aeneas . Anna . What can my tearestears or cryescries preuaileprevail me now ? Dido is dead , IarbusIarbas slaineslain , IarbusIarbas my dearedear louelove , OOh sweet IarbusIarbas , AnnasAnna's sole delight , What fatallfatal destiniedestiny enuiesenvies me thus , To see my sweet IarbusIarbas slay himselfehimself ? But Anna now shall honorhonour thee in death , And mixemix her bloudblood with thine , this shall I doedo , That Gods and men may pitiepity this my death , And rue our ends sencelessenseless of life or breath : Now sweet IarbusIarbas stay , I come to thee .
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Cloa●●bes Cloanthes . Wo●dcocke Printed , by the Widdowe Orwin , for Thomas Woodcocke , and are to be solde at his shop , in Paules da●dling Curtaines draw , there is discouered Iupiter dandling Ganimed vpon his knee , and Mercury lying slumbets shed their siluer downe , To sweeten out the slumbers of thy bed : Hermes no more shall shew the eternish yeeld to dignitie a dubble birth , Who will eternise Troy in their attempts . wind●all light a fire , You shall haue leaues and windfall bowes enow Neere to these woods , to rost left here come the Citizens , Leaue to lament lest they laugh at our feares . Mirmido●s Carthaginian Peeres Heare me , but yet with Mirmidons harsh eares , Daily inur'd to broyles and Tonedos the Campe , And so in troopes all marcht to Tenedos : Where when they came , Vlysses on the Laoc●on Mineruas wrath : The rather for that one Laocoon Breaking a speare vpon his hollow breast saulchions breasts and falling on the ground , He with his faulchions poynt raisde vp at once , And with Megeras ▪ What happened to the Queene we cannot shewe , We heare they led her captiue into Greece Nauic broken , and my Tackling lost , Yea all my Nauie split with Rockes and Shelfes : Nor Sterne oftime order now , And race th'eternall Register of time : Troy shall no more call him her second Id● shall be my charge , Whom I will beare to Ida in mine armes , And couch him in Adonis ●●n I mother I shall one day be a man , And better able vnto other armes , Meane Lyon●●awes my warre , Which I will breake betwixt a Lyons jawes . s●one wish me in faire Didos armes , And dead to soone that hath pursued me so . icksome O how these irksome labours now delight , And ouerioy my thoughts omnes● Exeunt omnes, , manent . m●●●●us Exeunt omnes , manent . th●● Planets euer loue to raunge : What shall I doe thus wronged with disdaine ? Reuenge me on Aeneas foare riuall of thy paine , Who nere will cease to soare till he be slaine . low● If that your maiestie can looke so lowe , As my despised worths , that shun all Iu●●s vpreared walles , Whiles Dido liues and rules in Iunos towne , Neuer to like or loue any but her vnrenowmed imbrast the night , Commaunds me leaue these vnrenowned beames , Whereas Nobilitie abhors to stay ▪ stay my Fleete from loosing forth the Bay . Come backe , come backe , I heare her crye Ascauius Your Nurse is gone with yong Ascanius , And heres Aeneas tackling , oares and Anchis●on Nay , I will haue it calde Anchisaon , Of my old fathers name . danlest Dido though thou be in loue , That daylie danglest Cupid in thy armes : Welcome sweet child slocke periurd man , Nor Dardanus the author of thy flocke : But thou art sprung from Scythian Caucasus abdurate would not relent , Will , being absent , be obdurate still . By this is he got to the water side Trito●s vnto the waues , That I may swim to him like Tritons neece : O Anna , fetch Orions Harpe , That