The ploughman by Wenceslaus Hollar (Plate 293 - Scenes from Virgil) 1607-1677

"A wand’ring woman builds, within our state,
A little town, bought at an easy rate;
She pays me homage, and my grants allow
A narrow space of Libyan lands to plow;
Yet, scorning me, by passion blindly led,
Admits a banish’d Trojan to her bed!
And now this other Paris, with his train
Of conquer’d cowards, must in Afric reign!
(Whom, what they are, their looks and garb confess,
Their locks with oil perfum’d, their Lydian dress.)
He takes the spoil, enjoys the princely dame;
And I, rejected I, adore an empty name.”

-Virgil, The Aeneid, Book IV

The ploughman by Wenceslaus Hollar (Plate 293 - Scenes from Virgil) 1607-1677.

Source:

https://hollar.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/hollar%3AHollar_k_0290

 

Quote:

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