Dido and Aeneas by Wenceslaus Hollar (Plate 303 - Scenes from Virgil) 1607-1677

"The Tyrian queen stood fix’d upon his face,
Pleas’d with his motions, ravish’d with his grace;
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?
Are you the great Aeneas, known to fame,
Who from celestial seed your lineage claim?

The same Aeneas whom fair Venus bore
To fam’d Anchises on th’ Idaean shore?”

-Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 1

Dido and Aeneas by Wenceslaus Hollar (Plate 303) 1607-1677.

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/228/228-h/228-h.htm