for so sudden a change. Meantime he, while Dido, kindest
of friends, is in ignorance, deeming love’s chain too strong
to be snapped, will feel his way, and find what are the
happiest moments for speech, what the right hold to take
of circumstance. At once all gladly obey his command, 10
and are busy on the tasks enjoined.
But the queen (who can cheat a lover’s senses?) scented
the plot, and caught the first sound of the coming stir, alive
to fear in the midst of safety. Fame, as before, the same
baleful fiend, whispered in her frenzied ear that the fleet 15