_Dido._ What more than Delian music do I hear, That calls my soul from forth his living seat To move unto the measures of delight? Kind clouds, that sent forth such a courteous storm As made disdain to fly to fancy's lap! Stout love, in mine arms make thy Italy, Whose crown and kingdom rests at thy command: Sichæus, not Æneas, be thou call'd; The king of Carthage, not Anchises' son. 60 Hold, take these jewels at thy lover's hand, [_Giving jewels, &c._ These golden bracelets, and this wedding-ring, Wherewith my husband woo'd me yet a maid, And be thou king of Libya by my gift. [_Exeunt to the cave._ ACT IV. 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._ SCENE II. _Enter_[515] IARBAS _to sacrifice_.