With wiles to take the queen, ere Juno steel her heart,
And hold her fast in passion’s net; that at the hest
Of Juno she her present purpose may not change,
But by a mighty love for this her Trojan guest
She may be bound to work my will.
Now hear thy part:
Obedient to the summons of his doting sire,
The youthful prince Ascanius goes to Dido’s town
With gifts which Ocean and the flames of Troy have spared;
Him, lapped in sleep, will I to far Cythera bear,