But Venus felt that Juno's guile within the word did live, Who lordship due to Italy to Libya fain would give, So thus she answered her again: "Who were so overbold To gainsay this? or who would wish war against thee to hold, If only this may come to pass, and fate the deed may seal? But doubtful drifts my mind of fate, if one same town and weal 110 Jove giveth to the Tyrian folk and those from Troy outcast, If he will have those folks to blend and bind the treaty fast Thou art his wife: by prayer mayst thou prove all his purpose weighed. Set forth, I follow." Juno then took up the word and said: "Yea, that shall be my very work: how that which presseth now May be encompassed, hearken ye, in few words will I show: Æneas and the hapless queen are minded forth to fare For hunting to the thicket-side, when Titan first shall bear Tomorrow's light aloft, and all the glittering world unveil: On them a darkening cloud of rain, blended with drift of hail, 120 Will I pour down, while for the hunt the feathered snare-lines shake, And toils about the thicket go: all heaven will I awake With thunder, and their scattered folk the mid-mirk shall enwrap: Then Dido and the Trojan lord on one same cave shall hap; I will be there, and if to me thy heart be stable grown, In wedlock will I join the two and deem her all his own: And there shall be their bridal God." Then Venus nought gainsaid, But, nodding yea, she smiled upon the snare before her laid. Meanwhile Aurora risen up had left the ocean stream, And gateward throng the chosen youth in first of morning's beam, 130 And wide-meshed nets, and cordage-toils and broad-steeled spears abound, Massylian riders go their ways with many a scenting hound. The lords of Carthage by the door bide till the tarrying queen Shall leave her chamber: there, with gold and purple well beseen, The mettled courser stands, and champs the bit that bids him bide. At last she cometh forth to them with many a man beside: A cloak of Sidon wrapped her round with pictured border wrought, Her quiver was of fashioned gold, and gold her tresses caught; The gathering of her purple gown a golden buckle had.