build a towne,
With whom we did deuide both lawes and land,
And all the fruites that plentie els sends forth,
Scorning our loues and royall marriage rites,
Yeelds vp her beautie to a strangers bed,
Who hauing wrought her shame, is straight way fled:
Now if thou beest a pitying God of power,
On whom ruth and compassion euer waites,
Redresse these wrongs, and warne him to his ships,
That now afflicts me with his flattering eyes.
_Enter Anna._
_Anna._ How now _Iarbus_, at your prayers so hard?
_Iar._ I _Anna_, is there ought you would with me?
_Anna._ Nay, no such waightie busines of import,
But may be slackt vntill another time:
Yet if you would partake with me the cause
Of this deuotion that detaineth you,
I would be thankfull for such curtesie.
_Iar._ _Anna_, against this Troian doe I pray,
Who seekes to rob me of thy Sisters loue,
And dive into her heart by coloured lookes.
_Anna._ Alas poore King that labours so in vaine.
For her that so delighteth in thy paine:
Be rul'd by me, and seeke some other loue,
Whose yeelding heart may yeeld thee more reliefe.
_Iar._ Mine eye is fixt where fancie cannot start,
O leaue me, leaue me to my silent thoughts,
That register the numbers of my ruth,
And I will either moue the thoughtles flint,
Or drop out both mine eyes in drisling teares,
Before my sorrowes tide haue any stint.
_Anna._ I will not leaue _Iarbus_ whom I loue,
In this delight of dying pensiuenes:
Away with _Dido_, _Anna_ be thy song,
_Anna_ that doth admire thee more then heauen.
_Iar._ I may nor will list to such loathsome chaunge,
That intercepts the course of my desire:
Seruants, come fetch these emptie vessels here,
For I will flye from these alluring eyes,
That doe pursue my peace where ere it goes. _Exit._
_Anna._ _Iarbus_ stay, louing _Iarbus_ stay,
For I haue honey to present thee with:
Hard hearted, wilt not deigne to heare me speake,
Ile follow thee with outcryes nere the lesse,
And strewe thy walkes with my discheueld haire. _Exit._
_Enter AEneas alone._
_AEn._ _Carthage_, my friendly host adue,
Since destinie doth call me from the shoare:
_Hermes_ this night descending in a dreame,
Hath summond me to fruitfull _Italy_:
_Ioue_ wils it so, my mother wils it so:
Let my Phenissa graunt, and then I goe:
Graunt she or no, _AEneas_ must away,
Whose golden fortunes clogd with courtly ease,
Cannot ascend to Fames immortall house,
Or banquet in bright honors burnisht hall,
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