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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 III

Enter Æneas.1

Æn.

• Carthage, my friendly host, adieu!
• Since Destiny doth call me from thy2 shore:
• Hermes this night, descending in a dream,
• Hath summoned me to fruitful Italy;
• Jove wills it so; my mother wills it so:
• Let my Phœnissa grant, and then I go.
• Grant she or no, Æneas must away;
• Whose golden fortunes, clogg'd with courtly ease,
• Cannot ascend to fame's immortal house,
• Or banquet in bright Honour's burnished hall,

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• Till he hath furrowed Neptune's glassy fields,
• And cut a passage through his topless3 hills.—
• Achates, come forth! Sergestus, Ilioneus,
• Cloanthus, haste away! Ænezs calls.
• Enter Achates, Cloanthus, Sergestus, and Ilioneus.

Ach.

• What wills our lord, or wherefore did he call?

Æn.

• The dreams, brave mates, that did beset my bed.
• When sleep but newly had embrac'd the night
• Commands me leave these unrenowmed realms,1
• Whereas nobility abhors to stay,
• And none but base Æneas will abide.

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• Aboard, aboard! since Fates do bid aboard
• And slice the sea with sable-colour'd ships,
• On whom the nimble winds may all day wait,
• And follow them, as footmen, through the deep
• Yet Dido casts her eyes, like anchors, out,
• To stay my fleet from loosing forth the bay: “Come back, come back,”
• I hear her cry a-far,
• “And let me link thy2 body to my lips.
• That, tied together by the striving tongues,
• We may, as one, sail into Italy.”

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Ach.

• Banish that ticing dame from forth your mouth
• And follow your fore-seeing stars in all:
• This is no life for men-at-arms to live.
• Where dalliance doth consume a soldier's strength,
• And wanton motions of alluring eyes
• Effeminate our minds, inur'd to war
• Ili Why, let us build a city of our own,
• And not stand lingering here for amorous looks.
• Will Dido raise old Priam forth his grave,
• And build the town again the Greeks did burn?

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• No, no; she cares not how we sink or swim,
• So she may have Æneas in her arms,

Clo.

• To Italy, sweet friends, to Italy!
• We will not stay a minute longer here.

Æn.

• Trojans, aboard, and I will follow you.
• [Exeunt all except Æneas.
• I fain would go, yet beauty calls me back:
• To leave her so, and not once say farewell,
• Were to transgress against all laws of love.
• But, if I use such ceremonious thanks
• As parting friends accustom on the shore,

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• Her silver arms will coll1 me round about,
• And tears of pearl cry, “Stay, Æneas, stay!”
• Each word she says will then contain a crown,
• And every speech be ended with a kiss:
• I may not dure this female drudgery:
• To sea, Æneas! find out Italy!
• [Exit.

[1]Scene: a room in Dido's palace,

[2]Old ed. “the.”

[3]Cf. Faustus, scene xiv.—” And burnt the topless towers of Itn.”

[1]Old ed. “beames,”-a mistake, as Dyce observed, for “reames” (a common form of “realms”

[2]Old ed. “my”

[1]“Coll” = cling round the neck.