‘A suitor to the maid, Æneas malicing,
‘By force of arms attempts his rival to extrude:
‘But by the Teucrian power courageously subdu’d,
‘Bright Cytheræa’s son the Latin crown obtain’d;
‘And dying, in his stead his son Ascanius reign’d.
‘Next Sylvius him succeeds, begetting Brute again:
‘Who in his mother’s womb whilst yet he did remain,
‘The oracles gave out, that next-born Brute should be
‘His parents’ only death: which soon they liv’d to see.
‘For, in his painful birth his mother did depart;