Ach. What means Æneas?
Æn. Achates, though mine eyes say this is stone, Yet thinks my mind that this is Priamus; And when my grievèd heart sighs and says no, Then would it leap out to give Priam life.— O, were I not at all, so thou mightst be;— Achates, see, King Priam wags his hand!30 He is alive; Troy is not overcome!
Ach. Thy mind, Æneas, that would have it so, Deludes thy eye-sight; Priamus is dead.
Æn. Ah, Troy is sack'd, and Priamus is dead! And why should poor Æneas be alive?
Asc. Sweet father, leave to weep; this is not he, For, were it Priam, he would smile on me.
Ach. Æneas, see, here come the citizens: Leave to lament, lest they laugh at our fears. [463]
Enter Cloanthus, Sergestus, Ilioneus, and others.
Æn. Lords of this town, or whatsoever style40 Belongs unto your name, vouchsafe of ruth To tell us who inhabits this fair town, What kind of people, and who governs them; For we are strangers driven on this shore, And scarcely know within what clime we are.
Ili. I hear Æneas' voice, but see him not, [464] For none of these can be our general.
Ach. Like Ilioneus speaks this nobleman, But Ilioneus goes not in such robes.