"Unequal match'd Pyrrhus and Priam drives, in rage strikes wide; But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword The unnerved father falls."
Very slight heightening was required to give a burlesque turn to this speech of Æneas.
[ [474] Old ed. "Fawne."
[ [475] Old ed. "And after by that."
[ [476] Cease speaking.
[ [477] We must suppose that Venus had borne the sleeping Ascanius to Cyprus.—Cf. Virg. Æn. i. 680-1:—
"Hunc ego sopitum somno super alta Cythera Aut super Idalium sacrata sede recondam."
[ [478] Sentinels. The form "centronel" (or "sentronel") occurs in the Tryal of Chevalry (1605), i. 3:—"Lieutenant, discharge Nod, and let Cricket stand Sentronell till I come."
[ [479] Old ed. "Citheida's."
[ [480] Grandson (Lat. nepos).