Approach already quake The Caspian Kingdoms and Maeotian Lake Their Seers behold the Tempest from afar And threatning Oracles denounce the War Nile hears him knocking at his sev'nfold Gates And seeks his hidden Spring and fears his Nephew's Fates Nor Hercules more Lands or Labours knew Not tho' the brazen-footed Hind he slew To Robert Harley of Bramton Castle in y e County of Hereford Esq AE 6. l. 1085. Freed Erymanthus from the foaming Boar And dip'd his Arrows in Lernaean Gore Nor Bacchus turning from his Indian War By Tygers drawn triumphant in his Car From Nisus top descending on the Plains With curling Vines around his purple Reins And doubt we yet thro' Dangers to pursue The Paths of Honour and a Crown in view But what 's the Man who from afar appears His Head with Olive crown'd his Hand a Censer bears His hoary Beard and holy Vestments bring His lost Idea back I know the Roman King He shall to peaceful Rome new Laws ordain Call'd from his mean abode a Scepter to sustain Him Tullus next in Dignity succeeds An active Prince and prone to Martial Deeds For fighting Fields his Troops he shall prepare Disus'd to Toils and Triumphs of the War By dint of Sword his Crown he shall increase And scour his Armour from the Rust of Peace Whom Ancus follows with a fawning Air But vain within and proudly popular Next view the Tarquin Kings Th' avenging Sword Of Brutus justly drawn and Rome restor'd He first renews the Rods and Axe severe And gives the Consuls Royal Robes to wear His Sons who seek the Tyrant to sustain And long for Arbitrary Lords again With Ignominy scourg'd in open sight He dooms to Death deserv'd asserting Publick Right Unhappy Man to break the Pious Laws Of Nature pleading in his Children's Cause Howe're the doubtful Fact is understood 'T is Love of Honour and his Country's good The Consul not the Father sheds the Blood Behold Torquatus the same Track pursue And next the three devoted Decij view The Drusian Line Camillus loaded home With Standards well redeem'd and foreign Foes o'recome The Pair you see in equal Armour shine Now Friends below in close Embraces join But when they leave the shady Realms of Night And cloath'd in Bodies breath your upper Light With mortal Hate each other shall pursue What Wars what Wounds what Slaughter shall ensue From Alpine Heights the Father first descends His Daughter's Husband in the Plain attends His Daughter's Husband arms his Eastern Friends Embrace again my Sons be Foes no more Nor stain your Country with her Childrens Gore And thou the first lay down thy lawless claim Thou of my Blood who bear'st the Julian Name Another comes who shall in Triumph ride And to the Capitol his Chariot guide From conquer'd Corinth rich with Grecian Spoils And yet another fam'd for Warlike Toils On Argos shall impose the Roman Laws And on the Greeks revenge the Trojan Cause Shall drag in Chains their Achillaean Race Shall vindicate his Ancestors Disgrace And Pallas for her violated Place Great Cato there for Gravity renown'd And conqu'ring Cossus goes with Lawrels crown'd Who can omit the Gracchi who declare The Scipio's Worth those Thunderbolts of War The double Bane of Carthage Who can see Without esteem for virtuous Poverty Severe Fabritius or can cease t' admire The Ploughman Consul in his Course Attire Tir'd as I am my Praise the Fabij claim And thou great Heroe greatest of thy Name Ordain'd in War to save the sinking State And by Delays to put a stop to Fate Let others better mold the running Mass Of Mettals and inform the breathing Brass And soften into Flesh a Marble Face Plead better at the Bar describe the Skies And when the Stars descend and when they rise But Rome 't is thine alone with awful sway To rule Mankind and make the World obey Disposing Peace and War thy own Majestick Way To tame the Proud the fetter'd Slave to free These are Imperial Arts and worthy thee He paus'd And while with wond'ring Eyes they view'd The passing Spirits thus his Speech renew'd See great Marcellus how untir'd in Toils He moves with Manly grace how rich with Regal Spoils He when his Country threaten'd with Alarms Requires his Courage and his Conqu'ring Arms Shall more than once the Punic Bands affright Shall kill the Gaulish King in single Fight Then to the Capitol in Triumph move And the third Spoils shall grace Feretrian Jove Aeneas here beheld of Form Divine A Godlike Youth in glitt'ring Armour shine With great Marcellus keeping equal pace But gloomy were his Eyes dejected was his Face He saw and wond'ring ask'd his airy Guide What and of whence was he who press'd the Hero's side His Son or one of his Illustrious Name How like the former and almost the same Observe the Crowds that compass him around All gaze and all admire and raise a shouting sound But hov'ring Mists around his Brows are spread And Night with sable Shades involves his Head Seek not to know the Ghost reply'd with Tears The Sorrows of thy Sons in future Years This Youth the blissful Vision of a day Shall just be shown on Earth and snatch'd away The Gods too high had rais'd the Roman State Were but their Gifts as permanent as great What groans of Men shall fill the Martian Field How fierce a Blaze his flaming Pile shall yield What Fun'ral Pomp shall floating Tiber see When rising from his Bed he views the sad Solemnity No Youth shall equal hopes of Glory give No Youth afford so great a Cause to grieve The Trojan Honour and the Roman Boast Admir'd when living and Ador'd when lost Mirror of ancient Faith in early Youth Undaunted Worth Inviolable Truth No Foe unpunish'd in the fighting Field Shall dare thee Foot to Foot with Sword and Shield Much less in Arms oppose thy matchless Force When thy sharp Spurs shall urge thy foaming Horse Ah cou'dst thou break through Fates severe Decree A new Marcellus shall arise in thee Full Canisters of fragrant Lillies bring Mix'd with the Purple Roses of the Spring Let me with Fun'ral Flow'rs his Body strow This Gift which Parents to their Children owe This unavailing Gift at least I may bestow Thus having said He led the Heroe round The confines of the blest Elysian Ground Which when Anchises to his Son had shown And fir'd his Mind to mount the promis'd Throne He tells the future Wars ordain'd by Fate The Strength and Customs of the Latian State The Prince and People And fore-arms his Care With Rules to push his Fortune or to bear Two Gates the silent House of Sleep adorn Of polish'd Iv'ry this that of transparent Horn Of various things discoursing as he pass'd Anchises hither bends his Steps at last Then through the Gate of Iv'ry he dismiss'd His valiant Offspring and Divining Guest Streight to the Ships Aeneas took his way Embarqu'd his Men and skim'd along the Sea Still Coasting till he gain'd Cajeta's Bay
Dryden's VIRGIL Printed for Iacob Tonson THE WORKS OF VIRGIL Containing His PASTORALS GEORGICS AND AENEIS Translated into English Verse By Mr. DRYDEN Adorn'd with a Hundred Sculptures Sequiturque Patrem non passibus Aequis Virg. Aen. 2. LONDON Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judges-Head in Fleetstreet near the Inner-Temple-Gate MDCXCVII TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Hugh Lord Clifford BARON of Chudleigh My Lord I HAVE found it not more difficult to Translate Virgil than to find such Patrons as I desire for my Translation For though England is not wanting in a Learned Nobility yet such are my unhappy Circumstances that they have confin'd me to a narrow choice To the greater part I have not the Honour to be known and to some of them I cannot shew at present by any publick Act that grateful Respect which I shall ever bear them in my heart Yet I have no reason to complain of Fortune since in the midst of that abundance I could not possibly have chosen better than the Worthy Son of so Illustrious a Father He was the Patron of my Manhood when I Flourish'd in the opinion of the World though with small advantage to my Fortune 'till he awaken'd the remembrance of my Royal Master He was that Pollio or that Varus who introduc'd me to Augustus And tho' he soon dismiss'd himself from State-Affairs yet in the short time of his Administration he shone so powerfully upon me that like the heat of a Russian Summer he ripen'd the Fruits of Poetry in a cold Clymate and gave me wherewithal to subsist at least in the long Winter which succeeded What I now offer to your Lordship is the wretched remainder of a sickly Age worn out with Study and oppress'd by Fortune without other support than the Constancy and Patience of a Christian You my Lord are yet in the flower of your Youth and may live to enjoy the benefits of the Peace which is promis'd Europe I can only hear of that Blessing for Years and above all things want of health have shut me out from sharing in the happiness The Poets who condemn their Tantalus to Hell had added to his Torments if they had plac'd him in Elysium which is the proper Emblem of my Condition The Fruit and the Water may reach my Lips but cannot enter And if they cou'd yet I want a Palate as well as a Digestion But it is some kind of pleasure to me to please those whom I respect And I am not altogether out of hope that these Pastorals of Virgil may give your Lordship some delight though made English by one who scarce remembers that Passion which inspir'd my Author when he wrote them These were his first Essay in Poetry if the Ceiris was not his And it was more excusable in him to describe Love when he was young than for me to Translate him when I am Old He died at the Age of fifty two and I began this Work in my great Clymacterique But having perhaps a better constitution than my Author I have wrong'd him less considering my Circumstances than those who have attempted him before either in our own or any Modern Language And though this Version is not void of Errours yet it comforts me that the faults of others are not worth finding Mine are neither gross nor frequent in those Eclogues wherein my Master has rais'd himself above that humble Stile in which Pastoral delights and which I must confefs is proper to the Education and Converse of Shepherds for he found the strength of his Genius bâ—times and was even in his youth preluding to his Georgics and his Aeneis He cou'd not forbear to try his Wings though his Pinions were not harden'd to maintain a long laborious flight Yet sometimes they bore him to a pitch as lofty as ever he was able to reach afterwards But when he was admonish'd by his subject to descend he came down gently circling in the air and singing to the ground Like a Lark melodious in her mounting and continuing her Song 'till she alights still preparing for a higher flight at her next sally and tuning her voice to better musick The Fourth the Sixth and the Eighth Pastorals are clear Evidences of this truth In the three first he contains himself within his bounds but Addressing to Pollio his great Patron and himself no vulgar Poet he no longer cou'd restrain the freedom of his Spirit but began to assert his Native Character which is sublimity Putting himself under the conduct of the same Cumaean Sybil whom afterwards he gave for a Guide to his Aeneas 'T is true he was sensible of his own boldness and we know it by the Paulo Majora which begins his Fourth Eclogue He remember'd like young Manlius that he was forbidden to Engage but what avails an express Command to a youthful Courage which presages Victory in the attempt Encourag'd with Success he proceeds farther in the Sixth and invades the Province of Philosophy And notwithstanding that Phoebus had forewarn'd him of Singing Wars as he there confesses yet he presum'd that the search of Nature was as free to him as to Lucretius who at his Age explain'd it according to the Principles of Epicurus In his Eighth Eclogue he has innovated nothing the former part of it being the Complaint and Despair of a forsaken Lover the latter a Charm of an Enchantress to renew a lost Affection But the Complaint perhaps contains some Topicks which are above the Condition of his Persons and our Author seems to have made his Herdsmen somewhat too Learn'd for their Profession The Charms are also of the same nature but both were Copied from Theocritus and had receiv'd the applause of former Ages in their Original There is a kind of Rusticity in all those pompous Verses somewhat of a Holiday Shepherd strutting in his Country Buskins The like may be observ'd both in the Pollio and the Silenus where the Similitudes are drawn from the Woods and Meadows They seem to me to represent our Poet betwixt a Farmer and a Courtier when he left Mantua for Rome and drest himself in his best Habit to appear before his Patron Somewhat too fine for the place from whence he came and yet retaining part of its simplicity In the Ninth Pastoral he Collects some Beautiful passages which were scatter'd in Theocritus which he cou'd not insert into any of his former Eclogues and yet was unwilling they shou'd be lost In all the rest he is equal to his Sicilian Master and observes like him a just decorum both of the Subject and the Persons As particularly in the Third Pastoral where one of his Shepherds describes a Bowl or Mazer curiously Carv'd In Medio duo signa Conon quis fuit alter Descripsit radio totum qui Gentibus orbem He remembers only the name of Conon and forgets the other on set purpose whether he means Anaximander or Eudoxus I dispute not but he was certainly forgotten to shew his Country Swain was no great
usurp'd by others Both Envy'd and traduc'd during their Lives We know not so much as the true Names of either of them with any exactness For the Criticks are not yet agreed how the word Virgil should be Written and of Homer's Name there is no certainty at all Whosoever shall consider this Parallel in so many particulars and more might be added would be inclin'd to think that either the same Stars Rul'd strongly at the Nativities of them both or what is a great deal more probable that the Latin Grammarians wanting Materials for the former part of Virgil's Life after the Legendary Fashion supply'd it out of Herodotus and like ill Face-Painters not being able to hit the true Features endeavour'd to make amends by a great deal of impertinent Landscape and Drapery Without troubling the Reader with needless Quotations now or afterwards the most probable Opinion is that Virgil was the Son of a Servant or Assistant to a wandring Astrologer who practis'd Physic For Medicus Magus as Juvenal observes usually went together and this course of Life was follow'd by a great many Greeks and Syrians of one of which Nations it seems not improbable that Virgil's Father was Nor could a Man of that Profession have chosen a fitter place to settle in than that most Superstitious Tract of Italy which by her ridiculous Rites and Ceremonies as much enslav'd the Romans as the Romans did the Hetrurians by their Arms. This Man therefore having got together some Money which Stock he improv'd by his Skill in Planting and Husbandry had the good Fortune at last to Marry his Masters Daughter by whom he had Virgil and this Woman seems by her Mothers side to have been of good Extraction for she was nearly related to Quintilius Varus whom Paterculus assures us to have been an Illustrious tho' not Patrician Family and there is honourable mention made of it in the History of the second Carthaginian War It is certain that they gave him very good Education to which they were inclin'd not so much by the Dreams of his Mother and those presages which Donatus relates as by the early indications which he gave of a sweet Disposition and Excellent Wit He passed the first Seven Years of his Life at Mantua not Seventeen as Scaliger miscorrects his Author for the initia aetatis can hardly be supposed to extend so far From thence he removed to Cremona a Noble Roman Colony and afterwards to Milan In all which places he prosecuted his Studies with great application he read over all the best Latin and Greek Authors for which he had convenience by the no remote distance of Marseils that famous Greek Colony which maintain'd its Politeness and Purity of Language in the midst of all those Barbarous Nations amongst which it was seated And some Tincture of the latter seems to have descended from them down to the Modern French He frequented the most Eminent Professors of the Epicurean Philosophy which was then much in vogue and will be always in declining and sickly States But finding no satisfactory Account from his Master Syron he pass'd over to the Academick School to which he adher'd the rest of his Life and deserv'd from a great Emperour the Title of the Plato of Poets He compos'd at leisure hours a great number of Verses on various Subjects and desirous rather of a great than early Fame he permitted his Kinsman and Fellow-student Varus to derive the Honour of one of his Tragedies to himself Glory neglected in proper time and place returns often with large Increase and so he found it For Varus afterwards prov'd a great Instrument of his Rise In short it was here that he form'd the Plan and collected the Materials of all those excellent Pieces which he afterwards finish'd or was forc'd to leave less perfect by his Death But whether it were the Unwholsomness of his Native Air of which he somewhere complains or his too great abstinence and Night-watchings at his Study to which he was always addicted as Augustus observes or possibly the hopes of improving himself by Travel he resolv'd to Remove to the more Southern Tract of Italy and it was hardly possible for him not to take Rome in his Way as is evident to any one who shall cast an Eye on the Map of Italy And therefore the late French Editor of his Works is mistaken when he asserts that he never saw Rome 'till he came to Petition for his Estate He gain'd the Acquaintance of the Master of the Horse to Octavius and Cur'd a great many Diseases of Horses by methods they had never heard of It fell out at the same time that a very fine Colt which promised great Strength and Speed was presented to Octavius Virgil assur'd them that he came of a faulty Mare and would prove a Jade upon trial it was found as he had said his Judgment prov'd right in several other instances which was the more surprizing be-because the Romans knew least of Natural Causes of any civiliz'd Nation in the World And those Meteors and Prodigies which cost them incredible Sums to expiate might easily have been accounted for by no very profound Naturalist It is no wonder therefore that Virgil was in so great Reputation as to be at last Introduced to Octavius himself That Prince was then at variance with Marc. Antony who vex'd him with a great many Libelling Letters in which he reproaches him with the baseness of his Parentage that he came of a Scrivener a Ropemaker and a Baker as Suetonius tells us Octavius finding that Virgil had passed so exact a judgment upon the Breed of Dogs and Horses thought that he possibly might be able to give him some Light concerning his own He took him into his Closet where they continu'd in private a considerable time Virgil was a great Mathematician which in the Sense of those times took in Astrology And if there be any thing in that Art which I can hardly believe if that be true which the Ingenious De le Chambre asserts confidently that from the Marks on the Body the Configuration of the Planets at a Nativity may be gathered and the Marks might be told by knowing the Nativity never had one of those Artists a fairer Opportunity to shew his skill than Virgil now had for Octavius had Moles upon his Body exactly resembling the Constellation call'd Vrsa Major But Virgil had other helps The Predictions of Cicero and Catulus and that Vote of the Senate had gone abroad that no Child Born at Rome in the Year of his Nativity should be bred up because the Seers assur'd them that an Emperour was Born that Year Besides this Virgil had heard of the Assyrian and Egyptian Prophecies which in truth were no other but the Jewish that about that time a great King was to come into the World Himself takes notice of them Aen. 6. where he uses a very significant Word now in all Liturgies hujus in adventu so in another place
by apprehensions of want he had a good Estate settled upon him and a House in the Pleasantest part of Rome the Principal Furniture of which was a well-chosen Library which stood open to all comers of Learning and Merit and what recommended the situation of it most was the Neighbourhood of his Mecaenas and thus he cou'd either visit Rome or return to his Privacy at Naples thro' a Pleasant Rode adorn'd on each side with pieces of Antiquity of which he was so great a Lover and in the intervals of them seem'd almost one continu'd Street of three days Journey Caesar having now Vanquish'd Sextus Pompeius a Spring-tide of Prosperities breaking in upon him before he was ready to receive them as he ought fell sick of the Imperial Evil the desire of being thought something more than Man Ambition is an infinite Folly When it has attain'd to the utmost pitch of Humane Greatness it soon falls to making pretensions upon Heaven The crafty Livia would needs be drawn in the Habit of a Priestesse by the Shrine of the new God And this became a Fashion not to be dispens'd with amongst the Ladies The Devotion was wondrous great amongst the Romans for it was their Interest and which sometimes avails more it was the Mode Virgil tho' he despis'd the Heathen Superstitions and is so bold as to call Saturn and Janus by no better a Name than that of Old Men and might deserve the Title of Subverter of Superstitions as well as Varro thought fit to follow the Maxim of Plato his Master that every one should serve the Gods after the Usage of his own Country and therefore was not the last to present his Incense which was of too Rich a Composition for such an Altar And by his Address to Caesar on this occasion made an unhappy Precedent to Lucan and other Poets which came after him Geor. 1. and 3. And this Poem being now in great forwardness Caesar who in imitation of his Predecessor Julius never intermitted his Studies in the Camp and much less in other places refreshing himself by a short stay in a pleasant Village of Campania would needs be entertained with the rehearsal of some part of it Virgil recited with a marvellous Grace and sweet Accent of Voice but his Lungs failing him Mecaenas himself supplied his place for what remained Such a piece of condecension wou'd now be very surprizing but it was no more than customary amongst Friends when Learning pass'd for Quality Lelius the second Man of Rome in his time had done as much for that Poet out of whose Dross he would sometimes pick Gold as himself said when one found him reading Ennius the like he did by some Verses of Varro and Pacuvius Lucretius and Cicero which he inserted into his Works But Learned Men then liv'd easy and familiarly with the great Augustus himself would sometimes sit down betwixt Virgil and Horace and say jeastingly that he sate betwixt Sighing and Tears alluding to the Asthma of one and Rheumatick Eyes of the other he would frequently Correspond with them and never leave a Letter of theirs unanswered Nor were they under the constraint of formal Superscriptions in the beginning nor of violent Superlatives at the close of their Letter The invention of these is a Modern Refinement In which this may be remarked in passing that humble Servant is respect but Friend an affront which notwithstanding implies the former and a great deal more Nor does true Greatness lose by such Familiarity and those who have it not as Mecaenas and Pollio had are not to be accounted Proud but rather very Discreet in their Reserves Some Play-house Beauties do wisely to be seen at a distance and to have the Lamps twinckle betwixt them and the Spectators But now Caesar who tho' he were none of the greatest Souldiers was certainly the greatest Traveller of a Prince that had ever been for which Virgil so dexterously Complements him Aeneid 6. takes a Voyage to Aegypt and having happily finish'd that War reduces that mighty Kingdom into the Form of a Province over which he appointed Gallus his Lieutenant This is the same Person to whom Virgil addresses his Tenth Pastoral changing in compliance to his Request his purpose of limiting them to the number of the Muses The Praises of this Gallus took up a considerable part of the Fourth Book of the Georgics according to the general consent of Antiquity But Caesar would have it put out and yet the Seam in the Poem is still to be discern'd and the matter of Aristaeus's recovering his Bees might have been dispatched in less compass without fetching the Causes so far or interessing so many Gods and Goddesses in that Affair Perhaps some Readers may be inclin'd to think this tho' very much labour'd not the most entertaining part of that Work so hard it is for the greatest Masters to Paint against their Inclination But Caesar was content he shou'd be mention'd in the last Pastoral because it might be taken for a Satyrical sort of Commendation and the Character he there stands under might help to excuse his Cruelty in putting an Old Servant to death for no very great Crime And now having ended as he begins his Georgics with solemn mention of Caesar an Argument of his Devotion to him He begins his Aeneis according to the common account being now turn'd of Forty But that Work had been in truth the Subject of much earlier Meditation Whil'st he was working upon the first Book of it this pâ—ssage so very remarkable in History fell out in which Virgil had a great share Caesar about this time either cloy'd with Glory or terrifi'd by the Example of his Predecessor or to gain the Credit of Moderation with the People or possibly to feel the Pulse of his Friends deliberated whether he should retain the Soveraign Power or restore the Commonwealth Agrippa who was a very honest Man but whose View was of no great extent advis'd him to the latter but Mecaenas who had throughly studied his Master's Temper in an Eloquent Oration gave contrary Advice That Emperour was too Politick to commit the over-sight of Cromwell in a deliberation something resembling this Cromwell had never been more desirous of the Power than he was afterwards of the Title of King And there was nothing in which the Heads of the Parties who were all his Creatures would not comply with him But by too vehement Allegation of Arguments against it he who had out-witted every body besides at last out-witted himself by too deep dissimulation For his Council thinking to make their Court by assenting to his judgment voted unanimously for him against his Inclination which surpriz'd and troubled him to such a degree that as soon as he had got into his Coach he fell into a Swoon But Caesar knew his People better and his Council being thus divided he ask'd Virgil's Advice Thus a Poet had the Honour of determining the greatest Point that ever was in Debate betwixt
Rowl'd from a Silver Urn his Crystal Flood A Cloud of Foot succeeds and fills the Fields With Swords and pointed Spears and clatt'ring Shields Of Argives and of old Sicanian Bands And those who Plow the rich Sutulian Lands Auruncan Youth and those Sacrana yieids And the proud Labicans with painted Shields And those who near Numician Streams reside And those whom Tyber's holy Forests hide Or Circes Hills from the main Land divide Where Ufens glides along the lowly Lands Or the black Water of Pomptina stands Last from the Volscians fair Camilla came And led her warlike Troops a Warriour Dame To Charles Fox of y e Parish of S t Martins in y e Fields Esqr. AE 7. l. 1075. Unbred to Spinning in the Loom unskill'd She chose the nobler Pallas of the Field Mix'd with the first the fierce Virago fought Sustain'd the Toils of Arms the Danger sought Outstrip'd the Winds in speed upon the Plain Flew o're the Fields nor hurt the bearded Grain She swept the Seas and as she skim'd along Her flying Feet unbath'd on Billows hung Men Boys and Women stupid with Surprise Where e're she passes fix their wond'ring Eyes Longing they look and gaping at the Sight Devour her o're and o're with vast Delight Her Purple Habit sits with such a Grace On her smooth Shoulders and so suits her Face Her Head with Ringlets of her Hair is crown'd And in a Golden Caul the Curls are bound She shakes her Myrtle Jav'lin And behind Her Lycian Quiver dances in the Wind. The Eighth Book of the Aeneis The Argument The War being now begun both the Generals make all possible Preparations Tumus sends to Diomedes Aeneas goes in Person to beg Succours from Evander and the Tuscans Evander receives him kindly furnishes him with Men and sends his Son Pallas with him Vulcan at the Request of Venus makes Arms for her Son Aeneas and draws on his Shield the most memorable Actions of his Posterity WHen Turnus had assembled all his Pow'rs His Standard planted on Laurentum's Tow'rs When now the sprightly Trumpet from afar Had giv'n the Signal of approaching War Had rouz'd the neighing Steeds to scour the Fields While the fierce Riders clatter'd on their Shields Trembling with Rage the Latian Youth prepare To join th' Allies and headlong rush to War Fierce Ufens and Messapus led the Crowd With bold Mezentius who blasphem'd aloud These thro the Country took their wastful Course The Fields to forage and to gather Force Then Venulus to Diomede they send To beg his Aid Ausonia to defend Declare the common Danger and inform The Grecian Leader of the growing Storm Aeneas landed on the Latian Coast With banish'd Gods and with a baffled Hoast Yet now aspir'd to Conquest of the State And claim'd a Title from the Gods and Fate What num'rous Nations in his Quarrel came And how they spread his formidable Name To y e Right Hon ble Tho Earle of Ailesbury Elgin Viscount Bruce of Ampthill Baron Bruce of Whorleton Shelton and Kinloss ct AE 8. l. 2. What he design'd what Mischiefs might arise If Fortune favour'd his first Enterprise Was left for him to weigh whose equal Fears And common Interest was involv'd in theirs While Turnus and th' Allies thus urge the War The Trojan floating in a Flood of Care Beholds the Tempest which his Foes prepare This way and that he turns his anxious Mind Thinks and rejects the Counsels he design'd Explores himself in vain in ev'ry part And gives no rest to his distracted Heart So when the Sun by Day or Moon by Night Strike on the polish'd Brass their trembling Light The glitt'ring Species here and there divide And cast their dubious Beams from side to side Now on the Walls now on the Pavement play And to the Cieling flash the glaring Day 'T was Night And weary Nature lul'd asleep The Birds of Air and Fishes of the Deep And Beasts and Mortal Men The Trojan Chief Was laid on Tyber's Banks oppress'd with Grief And found in silent Slumber late Relief Then thro' the Shadows of the Poplar Wood Arose the Father of the Roman Flood An Azure Robe was o're his Body spread A Wreath of shady Reeds adorn'd his Head Thus manifest to Sight the God appear'd And with these pleasing Words his Sorrow chear'd Undoubted Off-spring of Etherial Race O long expected in this promis'd Place Who thro the Foes hast born thy banish'd Gods Restor'd them to their Hearths and old Abodes This is thy happy Home The Clime where Fate Ordains thee to restore the Trojan State Fear not the War shall end in lasting Peace And all the Rage of haughty Juno cease And that this nightly Vision may not seem Th' Effect of Fancy or an idle Dream A Sow beneath an Oak shall lye along All white her self and white her thirty Young When thirty rowling Years have run their Race Thy Son Ascanius on this empty Space Shall build a Royal Town of lasting Fame Which from this Omen shall receive the Name Time shall approve the Truth For what remains And how with sure Success to crown thy Pains With Patience next attend A banish'd Band Driv'n with Evander from th' Arcadian Land Have planted here and plac'd on high their Walls Their Town the Founder Palanteum calls Deriv'd from Pallas his great Grandsire's Name But the fierce Latians old Possession claim With War infesting the new Colony These make thy Friends and on their Aid rely To thy free Passage I submit my Streams Wake Son of Venus from thy pleasing Dreams And when the setting Stars are lost in Day To Juno's Pow'r thy just Devotion pay With Sacrifice the wrathful Queen appease Her Pride at length shall fall her Fury cease When thou return'st victorious from the War Perform thy Vows to me with grateful Care The God am I whose yellow Water flows Around these Fields and fattens as it goes Tyber my Name among the rowling Floods Renown'd on Earth esteem'd among the Gods This is my certain Seat In Times to come My Waves shall wash the Walls of mighty Rome He said and plung'd below while yet he spoke His Dream Aeneas and his Sleep forsook He rose and looking up beheld the Skies With Purple blushing and the Day arise Then Water in his hollow Palm he took From Tyber's Flood and thus the Pow'rs bespoke Laurentian Nymphs by whom the Streams are fed And Father Tyber in thy sacred Bed Receive Aeneas and from Danger keep Whatever Fount whatever holy deep Conceals thy wat'ry Stores where e're they rise And bubling from below salute the Skies Thou King of horned Floods whose plenteous Urn Suffices Fatness to the fruitful Corn For this thy kind Compassion of our Woes Shalt share my Morning Song and Ev'ning Vows But oh be present to thy Peoples Aid And firm the gracious Promise thou hast made Thus having said two Gallies from his Stores With Care he chuses Mans and fits with Oars Now on the Shore the fatal Swine is