Ah! couldst thou break through Fate's severe decree, A new Marcellus shall arise in thee![113] Full canisters of fragrant lilies bring, Mixed with the purple roses of the spring; Let me with funeral flowers his body strow; } This gift which parents to their children owe, } This unavailing gift, at least, I may bestow!" } Thus having said, he led the hero round The confines of the blest Elysian ground; Which when Anchises to his son had shown, And fired his mind to mount the promised throne, He tells the future wars, ordained by Fate; The strength and customs of the Latian state; The prince, and people; and fore-arms his care With rules, to push his fortune, or to bear. Two gates the silent house of Sleep adorn; Of polished ivory this, that of transparent horn;[114] True visions through transparent horn arise; Through polished ivory pass deluding lies. Of various things discoursing as he passed, Anchises hither bends his steps at last. Then, through the gate of ivory, he dismissed His valiant offspring, and divining guest. Straight to the ships Æneas took his way, } Embarked his men, and skimmed along the sea, } Still coasting, till he gained Caieta's bay. } At length on oozy ground his galleys moor; Their heads are turned to sea, their sterns to shore. FOOTNOTES: [106] This blunder I do not venture to transfer from the poet to the printer, with Dr Carey, who reads _prayers_. But Dryden's rhymes are in general exceedingly accurate; and many of the examples to the contrary, quoted by Dr Carey, only seem less so to us, by the fluctuation of the mode of pronouncing. I strongly believe, for example, that the word _sea_ was formerly pronounced somewhat like _say_; for all the poets, down to Pope inclusive, make it rhyme to _way_, _array_, &c. [107] Early editions, _he_. [108] Note I. [109] Note II. [110] Note III. [111] Note V. [112] Note IV. [113] Note VI. [114] Note VII. NOTES ON ÆNEÏS, BOOK VI. Note I. The next, in place and punishment, are they, Who prodigally throw their souls away, &c.--P. 405. _Proxima sorte tenent mœsti loca, qui sibi letum Insontes peperere manu, lucemque perosi, Projecere animas_, &c. This was taken, amongst many other things, from the tenth book of _Plato de Republicâ:_ no commentator, besides Fabrini, has taken notice of it. Self-murder was accounted a great crime by that divine philosopher; but the instances which he brings are too many to be inserted in these short notes. Sir Robert Howard, in his translation of this Æneïd, which was printed with his poems in the year 1660, has given us the most learned and the most judicious observations on this book, which are extant in our language. Note II. _Lo! to the secret shadows I retire, To pay my penance till my years expire._--P. 409.