The Works of Christopher Marlowe

Dido


Act: 5 Scene: 1
What meanes my sister thus to rave and crye?
Wicked Aeneas.
I goe faire sister, heavens graunt good successe.
Before I came, Aeneas was abourd,
And spying me, hoyst up the sailes amaine:
But I cride out, Aeneas, false Aeneas stay.
Then gan he wagge his hand, which yet held up,
Made me suppose he would have heard me speake:
Then gan they drive into the Ocean,
Which when I viewd, I cride, Aeneas stay,
Dido, faire Dido wils Aeneas stay:
Yet he whose hearts of adamant or flint,
My teares nor plaints could mollifie a whit:
Then carelesly I rent my haire for griefe,
Which seene to all, though he beheld me not,
They gan to move him to redresse my ruth,
And stay a while to heare what I could say,
But he clapt under hatches saild away.
How can ye goe when he hath all your fleete?
Ah sister, leave these idle fantasies,
Sweet sister cease, remember who you are.
O helpe Iarbus, Dido in these flames
Hath burnt her selfe, aye me, unhappie me!
What can my teares or cryes prevaile me now?
Dido is dead,
Iarbus slaine, Iarbus my deare love,
O sweet Iarbus, Annas sole delight,
What fatall destinie envies me thus,
To see my sweet Iarbus slay himselfe?
But Anna now shall honor thee in death,
And mixe her bloud with thine, this shall I doe,
That Gods and men may pitie this my death,
And rue our ends senceles of life or breath:
Now sweet Iarbus stay, I come to thee.