SCENE I.

_Enter_[510] ACHATES, CUPID _as_ ASCANIUS, IARBAS, _and_ ANNA.

_Ach._ Did ever men see such a sudden storm Or day so clear so suddenly o'ercast?

_Iar._ I think some fell enchantress dwelleth here, That can call them[511] forth whenas she please, And dive into black tempest's treasury, Whenas she means to mask the world with clouds.

_Anna._ In all my life I never knew the like; It hailed, it snowed, it lightened all at once.

_Ach._ I think, it was the devil's revelling night, There was such hurly-burly in the heavens: 10 Doubtless Apollo's axle-tree is crack'd, Or agèd Atlas' shoulder out of joint, The motion was so over-violent.

_Iar._ In all this coil, where have ye left the queen?

_Asc._ Nay, where's my warlike father, can you tell?

_Anna._ Behold, where both of them come forth the cave.

_Iar._ Come forth the cave! can heaven endure this sight? Iarbas, curse that unrevenging Jove, Whose flinty darts slept in Typhoeus'[512] den, Whiles these adulterers surfeited with sin. 20 Nature, why mad'st me not some poisonous beast, That with the sharpness of my edgèd sting I might have staked them both unto the earth, Whilst they were sporting in this darksome cave! [_Aside._

_Enter, from the cave_, ÆNEAS _and_ DIDO.

_Æn._ The air is clear, and southern winds are whist.[513] Come, Dido, let us hasten to the town, Since gloomy Æolus doth cease to frown.

_Dido._ Achates and Ascanius, well met.

_Æn._ Fair Anna, how escap'd you from the shower?

_Anna._ As others did, by running to the wood. 30

_Dido._ But where were you, Iarbas, all this while?

_Iar._ Not with Æneas in the ugly cave.

_Dido._ I see, Æneas sticketh in your mind; But I will soon put by that stumbling-block, And quell those hopes that thus employ your cares.[514] [_Exeunt._