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Besides a hundred Boars, a hundred Lambs,
With bleating cries, attend their Milky Dams.
And Jars of gen'rous Wine, and spacious Bowls,
She gives to chear the Sailors drooping Souls.
Now Purple Hangings cloath the Palace Walls, 900
And sumptuous Feasts are made in splendid Halls:
On Tyrian Carpets, richly wrought, they Dine;
With loads of Massy Plate the Side-boards shine.
And Antique Vases all of Gold Emboss'd;
(The Gold it self inferiour to the Cost:) 905
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$Of curious Work, where on the sides were seen
The Fights and Figures of Illustrious Men;
From their first Founder to the present Queen.
The Good Æneas, whose Paternal Care
Iulus absence could no longer bear, 910
Dispatch'd Achates to the Ships in hast,
To give a glad Relation of the past;
And, fraught with precious Gifts, to bring the Boy
Snatch'd from the Ruins of unhappy Troy:
A Robe of Tissue, stiff with golden Wire; 915
An upper Vest, once Hellen's rich Attire;
From Argos by the fam'd Adultress brought;
With Golden flow'rs and winding foliage wrought,
Her Mother, Lada's Present, when the came
To ruin Troy, and set the World on flame. 920
The Scepter Priam's eldest Daughter bore,
Her orient Necklace, and the Crown she wore;