But the lady of Cythera is casting new wiles, new devices

in her breast, that Cupid,[112] form and feature changed, may

arrive in the room of the charmer Ascanius, and by the

presents he brings influence the queen to madness, and turn

the very marrow of her bones to fire. She fears the two-faced

generation, the double-tongued sons of Tyre; Juno’s 5

hatred scorches her like a flame, and as night draws on the

care comes back to her. So then with these words she

addresses her winged Love:—“My son, who art alone my

strength and my mighty power, my son, who laughest to