Nurse. O Dido, your little son Ascanius Is gone! he lay with me last night, And in the morning he was stoln from me: I think, some fairies have beguilèd me.
Dido. O cursèd hag and false dissembling wretch, That slay'st me with thy harsh and hellish tale! Thou for some petty gift hast let him go, And I am thus deluded of my boy.— Away with her to prison presently,220
Enter Attendants.
Trait'ress too kenned [555] and cursèd sorceress!
Nurse. I know not what you mean by treason, I; I am as true as any one of yours.
Dido. Away with her! suffer her not to speak. [Exit Nurse with Attendants. My sister comes: I like not her sad looks.
Re-enter Anna.
Anna. Before I came, Æneas was aboard, And, spying me, hoist up the sails amain; But I cried out, "Æneas, false Æneas, stay!" Then gan he wag his hand, which, yet held up, Made me suppose he would have heard me speak;230 Then gan they drive into the ocean: Which when I view'd, I cried, "Æneas, stay! Dido, fair Dido wills Æneas stay!" Yet he, whose heart['s] of adamant or flint, My tears nor plaints could mollify a whit. Then carelessly I rent my hair for grief: Which seen to all, though he beheld me not, They gan to move him to redress my ruth, And stay a while to hear what I could say; But he, clapp'd under hatches, sail'd away.240
Dido. O Anna, Anna, I will follow him!
Anna. How can you go, when he hath all your fleet?