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*' was agitated with well-grounded apprehenfions, 

 *' alarmed at the threats of the Laurentian Chief, 

 " and the dire preparations of approaching war, 

 " addreffes herfelf to Fnkany and, reclined on her 

 *' fpoufe's golden bed, thus begins, while love ce- 

 " leftial flowed from her lips : All the time that 

 " the Grecian Princes were ravaging the plains of 

 *' ill-fated Troy, and aflailing her lofty turrets, 

 " doomed to fall by hoftile fires ; I claimed no 

 *' affiftance for that wretched People ; I aiked no 

 ** arms, the produdion of thy matchlefs ikill ; 

 ** nor could I think, my dearly beloved hufband, 

 *^ of employing thee in a fruitlefs labour, though 

 " I both lay under manifold obligations to the 

 ** family of Priam, and had frequent occafion to 

 *' flied tears over the perilous exertions of Eneas» 

 *' Now, by Jov'c's fupreme command, he has landed 

 " on the Rutulian lliore. In the fame ilate of 

 *' anxiety, 1 have now recourfe to thee as a fup- 

 *' pliant, and implore a protection ever facred in 

 " my eyes. Armour I aflv of thee, a mother for a 

 ** fon. The daughter of Nereiis, and the fpoufe 

 *' of Thhofjus, had the art of prevailing on thee, by 

 *' their tears, to grant a fimilar favour. Behold, 

 *' what Nations are combined, what cities have 

 *' Quit their gates, and are whetting the fword, for 

 " the deftrudion of me and mine. 



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