Carrying divine repose and sweetness to its core.

[Selected from Tasso]

They quietly withdraw. Dido is convulsed with weeping.

Dido (529-532; 534-552):

But not for me, unhappy one, this night’s sweet calm;

My cares redouble and o’erwhelm me with their flood.

She leaves the window and paces the room.

Ah me, what shall I do? My former suitors seek

And be again rejected? Shall I humbly court

Numidia’s lords whose suit I have so often scorned?