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Admir'd his Fortunes, more admir'd the Man;
Then recollected stood; and thus began.
What Fate, O Goddess born, what angry Pow'rs
Have cast you shipwreck'd on our barren Shores? 871
Are you the great Æneas, known to Fame,
Who from Cœlestial Seed your Lineage claim!
The same Æneas whom fair Venus bore
To fam'd Anchises on th' Idæan Shore? 875
It calls into my mind, tho' then a Child,
When Teucer came from Salamis exil'd;
And sought my Father's aid, to be restor'd:
My Father Belus then with Fire and Sword
Invaded Cyprus, made the Region bare, 880
And, Conqu'ring, finish'd the successful War.
From him the Trojan Siege I understood,
The Grecian Chiefs, and your Illustrious Blood.
Your Foe himself the Dardan Valour prais'd,
And his own Ancestry from Trojans rais'd, 885
Enter, my Noble Guest; and you shall find,
If not a costly welcome, yet a kind.
For I my self, like you, have been distress'd;
Till Heav'n afforded me this place of rest.
Like you an Alien in a Land unknown; 890
I learn to pity Woes, so like my own.
She said, and to the Palace led her Guest,
Then offer'd Incense, and proclaim'd a Feast.
Nor yet less careful for her absent Friends,
Twice ten fat Oxen to the Ships she sends: 895
Then recollected stood; and thus began.
What Fate, O Goddess born, what angry Pow'rs
Have cast you shipwreck'd on our barren Shores? 871
Are you the great Æneas, known to Fame,
Who from Cœlestial Seed your Lineage claim!
The same Æneas whom fair Venus bore
To fam'd Anchises on th' Idæan Shore? 875
It calls into my mind, tho' then a Child,
When Teucer came from Salamis exil'd;
And sought my Father's aid, to be restor'd:
My Father Belus then with Fire and Sword
Invaded Cyprus, made the Region bare, 880
And, Conqu'ring, finish'd the successful War.
From him the Trojan Siege I understood,
The Grecian Chiefs, and your Illustrious Blood.
Your Foe himself the Dardan Valour prais'd,
And his own Ancestry from Trojans rais'd, 885
Enter, my Noble Guest; and you shall find,
If not a costly welcome, yet a kind.
For I my self, like you, have been distress'd;
Till Heav'n afforded me this place of rest.
Like you an Alien in a Land unknown; 890
I learn to pity Woes, so like my own.
She said, and to the Palace led her Guest,
Then offer'd Incense, and proclaim'd a Feast.
Nor yet less careful for her absent Friends,
Twice ten fat Oxen to the Ships she sends: 895
