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*' as foon as to-morrow's dawn (hall re-vifit the 

 ** Earth, I will joyfully difmifs you to the field, 

 ** with the fuccours which you afk, and will fiip- 

 " port you to the utmofl extent of my ability." 



Thus Evander, though a Greek, and, confe- 

 quently, a natural enemy to the Trojans, gives his 

 aid to EneaSy purely from the recolledion of the 

 friendfhip which he entertained for his ancient 

 gueft Anchifes. The hofpitality which he had for- 

 merly exprefled to the father, determines him now 

 to fupport the fon. 



It is not foreign to my fubje£t to remark in this 

 place, to the honour of Firgil, and of his heroes. 

 That as often as Eneas, under the preflure of cala- 

 mity, is reduced to the neceffity of having recourfe 

 to the affiftance of ftranffers, he never fails to remind 

 them of either the glory of Troy, or of ancient fa- 

 mily alliances, or to urge fome other political rea- 

 fon, calculated to intereft them in his favour; but 

 thofe who tender him their fervices, are always 

 induced to adl thus from motives of virtue. When 

 thrown by the tempefl on the Lybian fliore, Dido 

 is determined to afford him an afylum, by a fenti- 

 ment fl^ill more fublime than the recolledion of any 

 particular hofpitality, highly refpeded as it was 

 among the ancients ; but by the general intereft 

 which we take in the miferable. In order to ren- 

 der 



