THE TRAGEDY

OF

DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE

Dido was published in 1594, with the following title :

The T'ragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage : Played by the Children of her Maiesties Chappill. Written by Christopher Marlour, and Thomas Nash, Gent.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

JUPITER.
GANYMEDE.
HERMES.
CUPID.

JUNO.
VENUS.

ÆNEAS.
ASCANIUS, his son.
ACHATES.
ILIONEUS.
CLOANTHUS.
SERGESTUS.
Other Trojans.
IARBAS.
Carthaginian Lords.

Dido.
ANNA, her sister.
Nurse

THE TRAGEDY OF

DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE.

ACT І.

SCENE I.

Here the curtains draw: there is discovered JUPITER

dandling GANYMEDE upon his knee, and HERMES

lying asleep.
Jup. Come, gentle Ganymede, and play with me;
I love thee well, say Juno what she will.

Gan. I am much better for your worthless love,
That will not shield me from her shrewish blows !
To-day, whenas I filled into your cups,
And held the cloth of pleasance whiles you drank,
She reached me such a rap for that I spilled,
As made the blood run down about mine ears.

Jup. What? dares she strike the darling of my thoughts?
By Saturn's soul, and this earth-threatening hair,
That, shaken thrice, makes nature's buildings quake,
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