gave leave, receive this my soul, and release me from these

my sorrows. I have lived my life—the course assigned

me by Fortune is run, and now the august phantom of

Dido shall pass underground. I have built a splendid

city. I have seen my walls completed. In vengeance for

a husband, I have punished a brother that hated me—blest,

ah! blest beyond human bliss, if only Dardan ships

had never touched coast of ours!” She spoke—and kissing 5

the couch: “Is it to be death without revenge? But

be it death,” she cries—“this, this is the road by which