And hem the glades with circling nets, will I a storm
Of rain and mingled hail pour down and rack the sky
From pole to pole. In all directions will they flee
Before the storm, and shield themselves in sheltering caves.
The queen and Trojan leader will together seek
The selfsame grot. And, if thy favoring purpose hold,
I shall in lasting union join and make them one.
Venus assents, and, bending over the sleeping boy, shows by a satiric smile that she perceives the purpose of her rival. Curtain.
Act II. Scene 3
A forest scene. Huge trees and moss-grown rocks. Across the back, a cliff in the face of which at the last wing on the left is the opening to a mighty cavern. Through the trees growing along the summit of this cliff, comes the shimmer of the distant sea.