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(If pious Acts, if Justice they regard)
And your clear Conscience stands its own Reward.
How blest this Age that has such Virtue seen?815
How blest the Parents of so great a Queen?
While to the Sea the Rivers roll, and Shades
With awful Pomp surround the Mountain Heads,
While Æther shines, with golden Planets grac’d,
So long your Honour, Name, and Praise shall last.820
Whatever Realm my Fortune has assign’d,
Still will I bear your Image in my Mind.

Thus having said, the pious Chief extends
His Hands around, and hails his joyful Friends:
His Left, Sergestus grasp’d with vast Delight,825
To great Ilioneus he gave the Right.
Cloanthus, Gyas, and the Trojan Train,
All, in their Turns, embrac’d the Prince again.

Charm’d with his Presence, Dido gaz’d him o’er,
Admir’d his Fortune much, his Person more.830

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