you? has our troth, once, plighted, none, nor she whom

you doom to a cruel death, your Dido? Nay, are you

fitting out your fleet with winter’s sky overhead, and hastening

to cross the deep in the face of all the northern winds,

hard-hearted as you are? Why, suppose you were not 30

seeking a strange clime and a home you know not—suppose

old Troy were still standing—would even Troy draw

you to seek her across a billowy sea? Flying, and from

me! By the tears I shed, and by your plighted hand,

since my own act, alas! has left me nought else to plead—by 35