The vain Rutulians lost in slumber dream. ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote vii: 'Hither she came------. ['Hours of Idleness.']] [Footnote viii: 'Her falling tears------. ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote ix: 'With this assurance Fate's attempts are vain; Fearless I dare the foes of yonder plain. ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote x: 'That all the gifts which once to thee were vowed. ['MS. Newstead'.] [Footnote xi: 'A tawny skin the furious lion's spoil. ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote xii: 'Mnestheus presented, and the Warrior's mask Alethes gave a doubly temper'd casque. ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote xiii: 'To glad their journey, follow them in vain. ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote xiv: 'Dispersed and scattered on the sighing gale. ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote xv: 'By Bacchus' potent draught weigh'd down at last Half the long night in childish games was past. ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote xvi: '--disportive play'd. ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote xvii: By hunger prest, the keeper lull'd to sleep In slaughter thus a Lyon's fangs may steep. ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote xviii: Through teeming herds unchecked, unawed, he roams. ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote xix: Heedless of danger on the herbage feed. ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote xx: ----'of thee bereft In what dire perils is my brother left.' ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote xxi: Then his lov'd boy the ruffian band surround Entangled in the tufted Forest ground. ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote xxii: 'At length a captive to the hostile crew'. ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote xxiii: 'The Goddess bright transcending every star'. ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote xxiv: 'No object meets them but the earth and skies. He burns for vengeance, rising in his wrath-- Then you, accursed, thy life shall pay for both; Then from the sheath his flaming brand he drew, And on the raging boy defenceless flew. Nisus no more the blackening shade conceals, Forth forth he rushed and all his love reveals; Pale and confused his fear to madness grows, And thus in accents mild he greets his Foes. "On me, on me, direct your impious steel, Let me and me alone your vengeance feel-- Let not a stripling's blood by Chiefs be spilt, Be mine the Death, as mine was all the guilt. By Heaven and Hell, the powers of Earth and Air. Yon guiltless stripling neither could nor dare: Spare him, oh! spare by all the Gods above, A hapless boy whose only crime was Love." He prayed in vain; the fierce assassin's sword Pierced the fair side, the snowy bosom gored; Drooping to earth inclines his lovely head, O'er his fair curls, the purpling stream is spread. As some sweet lily, by the ploughshare broke Languid in Death, sinks down beneath the stroke; Or, as some poppy, bending with the shower, Gently declining falls a waning flower'. ['MS. Newstead'.]] [Footnote xxv: 'Revenge his object'. ['MS. Newstead'.]]