Enter [510] Achates, 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 them [511] forth whenas she please, And dive into black tempest's treasury, Whenas she means to mask the world with clouds.
Anna. In all my life I never knew the like; It hailed, it snowed, it lightened all at once.
Ach. I think, it was the devil's revelling night, There was such hurly-burly in the heavens:10 Doubtless Apollo's axle-tree is crack'd, Or agèd 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 darts slept in Typhœus' [512] den, Whiles these adulterers surfeited with sin.20 Nature, why mad'st me not some poisonous beast, That with the sharpness of my edgèd sting I might have staked them both unto the earth, Whilst they were sporting in this darksome cave! [Aside.
Enter, from the cave, Æneas and Dido.