Then with a sigh began:—"Camilla goes

To meet her death amidst her fatal foes—

The nymph I loved of all my mortal train,

Invested with Diana's arms, in vain.

Nor is my kindness for the virgin new:

'Twas born with her; and with her years it grew.

Her father Metabus, when forced away

From old Privernum for tyrannic sway,

Snatched up, and saved from his prevailing foes,

This tender babe, companion of his woes.