Those led the love-enkindling dance. A group
Of youths was elsewhere imaged to the flute
Disporting: some in dances and in song,
In laughter others. To the minstrel’s flute
So pass’d they on; and the whole city seem’d
As fill’d with pomps, with dances, and with feasts.
Others again, without the city walls,
[264]Vaulted on steeds and madden’d for the goal.
[265]Others as husbandmen appear’d, and broke
With coulter the rich glebe, and gather’d up