can be contrived, lend me your attention, and I will explain

in brief. Æneas and Dido, poor sufferer! are 35

proposing to go hunting in the forest, when first to-morrow’s

sun displays his rising, and with his beams uncurtains

the globe. On them I will pour from above a black

storm of mingled rain and hail, just when the horsemen

are all astir, and spreading their toils before the wood-walks,

and the whole heaven shall be convulsed with

thunder. The train shall fly here and there, and be lost

in the thick darkness. Dido and the Trojan chief shall 5