How came she in your boat?

Sail.’Twas thus, my lady.

It being the feast, we smartened up the boat

And pulled her close along the shore, to find

A party of landsmen, such as love to visit

Misenum, or be rowed across the bay

To Pausilypum, lady, and Virgil’s villa.

When, as we lay, the Augusta’s galley passed,

Not half a cable’s length, and then we cheered,

And after took no note of her, till Gripus,