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• Publisher's Notice
• To My Worthy Friend , Master Thomas Hammon, of Gray's Inn , &c.
• Persons Represented.
• The Jew of Malta.
• Act the First.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Act the Second.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Act the Third.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Act the Fourth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Act the Fifth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Edward the Second.
• Act the First.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act the Second.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Act the Third.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Act the Fourth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Act the Fifth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• The Massacre At Paris.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Scene VII.
• Scene VIII.
• Scene IX.
• Scene X.
• Scene XI.
• Scene XII.
• Scene XIII.
• Scene XIV.
• Scene XV.
• Scene XVI.
• Scene XVII.
• Scene XVIII.
• Scene XIX.
• Scene XX.
• Scene XXI.
• Scene XXII.
• Scene XXIII.
• Scene XXIV.
• The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage.
• Act I.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Act II.
• Scene I.
• Act III.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act IV.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene Iii
• Scene IV.
• Scene V
• Act V.
• Scene I.

SCENE I.

Enter1Achates, Cupid as Ascanius, Iarbas, and Anna.

Ach.

• Did ever men see such a sudden storm
• Or day so clear so suddenly o'ercast?

Iar.

• I think some fell enchantress dwelleth here,
• That can call them2 forth whenas she please,
• And dive into black tempest's treasury,

Anna.

• In all my life Ignever knew the like;
• It hailed, it snowed, it lightened all at once.

Ach.

• I think it was the devil revelling night,
• There was such hurly-burly in the heavens:

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• Doubtless Apollo's axle-tree is crack'd,
• Or aged Atlas' shoulder out of joint,
• The motion was so over-violent.

Iar.

• In all this coil, where have ye left the queen?

Asc.

• Nay, where's my warlike father, can you tell?

Anna.

• Behold, where both of them come forth the cave,

Iar.

• Come forth the cave! can heaven endure this sight?
• Iarbas curse that unrevenging Jove,
• Whose flinty dart slept in Typhœus'1 den,
• Whiles these adulterers surfeited with sin.

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• Nature, why mad'st me not some poisonous beast,
• That with the sharpness of my edged sting
• I might have staked them both unto the earth,
• Whilst they were sporting in this darksome cave!
• [Aside.
• Enter; from the cave, Æneas andDido.

Æn.

• The air is clear, and southern winds are whist.2
• Come, Dido, let us hasten to the town,
• Since gloomy Æolus doth cease to frown.

Dido.

• Achates and Ascanius, well met

Æn.

• Fair Anna, how escap'd you from the shower?

Anna.

• As others did, by running to the wood.

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Dido.

• But where were you, Iarbas, all this while?

Iar.

• Not with Æneas in the ugly cave.

Dido.

• I see, Æneas sticketh in your mind;
• But I will soon put by that stumbling-block,
• And quell those hopes that thus employ your cares.3
• [Exeunt.

[1]Scene: before the cave.

[2]The line is unrhythmical and corrupt. Qy, “That can call forth the winds”?

[1]Old ed. “Tiphous.”

[2]Still, hushed.

[3]Old ed. “eares.”