And charm’d to hear his simulating tongue;

Nor pass unprais’d the robe and veil divine,

Round which the yellow flowers and wandering foliage twine.

But chiefly Dido, to the coming ill

Devoted, strives in vain her vast desires to fill; 80

She views the gifts; upon the child then turns

Insatiable looks, and gazing burns.

To ease a father’s cheated love he hung

Upon Æneas, and around him clung;

Then seeks the queen; with her his arts he tries; 85