Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... the death of dido (virgil, din. 296-705) But Dido heard them plotting, ere they move, --Did any ever dupe the ear of love? The days had been so quiet, she had feared: And soon blab Rumour with her tale appeared Of yard-arms rigged and decks for sailing cleared. Forth through the city she is raving now, Pain at her heart, and fever on her brow. So starts in Thebes the mummer, when she hears The revels break the silence of three years. Loud then the shout of each bold bacchanal: And all night long the mountains seem to call. Then seeking out Eneas, she began: --"And didst thou hope to hide it, treach'rous man? "Didst hope to hide a deed like this from light, "And from my shores in silence steal thy flight? "Is our love nothing, and thy plighted faith, "And Dido soon to die a piteous death? "What! busy building ships in stormy stars, "In teeth of all the north to clear the bars! "Hard man! if those thou seekest were thine own, "Not alien lands and settlements unknown, "And to thine ancient home thou hadst to fly, "Should Troy be sought when waves run mountains high? ""Tis me thou flyest! By these tears that flow, "By thine own troth, --no more is left me now--"Oh! by that primal hour that made us one, "By all our marriage rites but now begun, "By all thou ow'st me, all my love has been, "Pity the downfall of a ruined Queen, "And turn thee from thy purpose! 'Tis for thee "Tyrians estranged and Libyan hate I see, "And ah! sole passport to the realms above, "The name once mine is bartered for thy love! "Friend, in whose halls must I be left to pine? ("Friend is the name, though husband once was thine") "Am I to wait till fierce Pygmalion comes "To wreak a brother's vengeance on these homes, "Or the black Moor whom once I scorned to wed, "Iarbas, ...