- "They flee not, as they fled from Troy, on ships,
But bear their country with them, on their hips."
- "The greater part, for shelter and repose,
Dispose their bodies on the grassy boughs;
Some on their lances lean, or on the ground,
Their weary limbs on heaps of boughs they found."
- "Meantime the Trojan prince, and Dido's lord,
Stood in the porch, consulting each the other,
Their minds employed in many a deep discourse."
- "Thus having said, the father of the gods
Sent Mercury with his commanding rod."
- "The queen, amazed, her former purpose lost,
In secret arts, and magic frauds, engrossed."
- "But onward still she drives, and every way
With new entreaties seeks him to delay."
- "Her plighted faith, and wedlock contract, broke,
The queen's averted looks, and scornful spoke."
- "'Tis just," replied the god; "by force of might
I break a Treaty solemnized by night;
By force thou conquer'st, and by force shalt reign."
- "Now Neptune's wrath his calmer vows appease,
He gives the winds to rest, and smooths the seas."
- "They strive in vain; the chief without control
Pursuing, wounds them thro' the gaping hole."