And, how that treason should be smothered so, No sign thereof should outwardly appear;
For where that evil people dealt the blow, They should entomb the youthful cavalier.
For this should vengeance follow, albeit slow, Dealt by his consort and his sister dear;
And how he by his wife should long be sought, With weary womb, with heavy burden fraught, LXIII
'Twixt Brenta and Athesis, beneath those hills (Which erst the good Antenor so contented, With their sulphureous veins and liquid rills, And mead, and field, with furrows glad indented, That he for these left pools which Xanthus fills;
And Ida, and Ascanius long lamented,)
Till she a child should in the forests bear, Which little distant from Ateste are;