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Enter Achates, Ascanius, Iarbus, and Anna.]
ACHATES.
Did ever men see such a sudden storm?
Or day so clear so suddenly orecast?
IARBUS
I think some fell Inchantresse dwelleth here,
That can call them forth when as she please,
And dive into black tempests treasury,
When as she mcanes to mask the world with clouds.
ANNA.
In all my life I never knew the like,
It haild, it snowde, it lightned all at once.
ACHATES.
I think it was the divels revelling night,
There was such hurly burly in the heavens:
Doubtles Apollos Axeltree is cracked,
Or aged Atlas shoulder out of joint,
The motion was so over violent.
IARBUS
In all this coyle, where have ye left the Queen?
ASCANIUS.
Nay, where is my warlike father, can you tell?
ANNA.
Behold where both of them come forth the Cave.
IARBUS
Come forth the Cave: can heaven endure this sight?
Iarbus, curse that unrevenging Jove,
Whose flinty darts slept in Tiphous den,
Whiles these adulterers surfetted with sinne:
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,
Whil'st they were sporting in this darksome Cave?
AENEAS.
The air is clear, and Southern winds are whist,
Come Dido, let us hasten to the town,
Since gloomy AEolus doth cease to frown.
DIDO.
Achates and Ascanius, well met.
AENEAS.
Fair Anna, how escaped you from the shower?
ANNA.
As others did, by running to the wood.
DIDO.
But where were you Iarbus all this while?
IARBUS
Not with Aeneas in the ugly Cave.
DIDO.
I see Aeneas sticketh in your mind,
But I will soon put by that stumbling block,
And quell those hopes that thus employ your cares.
[Exeunt.] _
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