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Rh and Juno will take care that opportunity shall be given for the furtherance of Dido's passion. The royal hunt is again a striking picture, almost mediæval in its rich colouring:—

The morn meantime from ocean rose:

Forth from the gates with daybreak goes

The silvan regiment:

Thin nets are there, and spears of steel,

And there Massylian riders wheel,

And dogs of keenest scent.

Before the chamber of her state

Long time the Punic nobles wait

The appearing of the queen:

With gold and purple housings fit

Stands her proud steed, and champs the bit

His foaming jaws between.

At length with long attendant train

She comes: her scarf of Tyrian grain,

With broidered border decked:

Of gold her quiver: knots of gold

Confine her hair: her vesture's fold

By golden clasp is checked.

The Trojans and Iulus gay

In glad procession take their way.

Æneas, comeliest of the throng,

Joins their proud ranks, and steps along,

As when from Lycia's wintry airs

To Delos' isle Apollo fares;

The Agathyrsian, Dryop, Crete,

In dances round his altar meet:

He on the heights of Cynthus moves,

And binds his hair's loose flow