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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408211" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Certain Books Of Virgil's AEneis: Book II</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">BOOK II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They whisted all, with fixed face attent, <br>When Prince AEneas from the royal seat <br>Thus gan to speak: O Queen, it is thy will <br>I should renew a woe cannot be told, <br>How that the Greeks did spoil and overthrow <br>The Phrygian wealth and wailful realm of Troy; <br>Those ruthful things that I myself beheld, <br>And whereof no small part fell to my share; <br>Which to express, who could refrain from tears? <br>What Myrmidon? or yet what Dolopes? <br>What stern Ulysses' waged soldier? <br>And lo! moist night now from the welkin falls, <br>And stars declining counsel us to rest. <br>But since so great is thy delight to hear <br>Of our mishaps and Troy last decay, <br>Though to record the same my mind abhors <br>And plaint eschews, yet thus will I begin. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The Greek chieftains, all irk'd with the war, <br>Wherein they wasted had so many years, <br>And oft repuls'd by fatal destiny, <br>A huge horse made, high raised like a hill, <br>By the divine science of Minerva,- <br>Of cloven fir compacted were his ribs,- <br>For their return a feigned sacrifice,- <br>The fame whereof so wander'd it at point. <br>In the dark bulk they clos'd bodies of men, <br>Chosen by lot, and did enstuff by stealth <br>The hollow womb with armed soldiers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>There stands in sight an isle hight Tenedon, <br>Rich and of fame while Priam's kingdom stood, <br>Now but a bay and road unsure for ship. <br>Hither them secretly the Greeks withdrew, <br>Shrouding themselves under the desert shore; <br>And weening we they had been fled and gone, <br>And with that wind had fet the land of Greece, <br>Troy{:e} discharg'd her long continued dole. <br>The gates cast up, we issued out to play, <br>The Greekish camp desirous to behold, <br>The places void and the forsaken coasts. <br>Here Pyrrhus' band, there fierce Achilles', pight; <br>Here rode their ships, there did their battles join. <br>Astonied some the scathful gift beheld, <br>Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve, <br>All wond'ring at the hugeness of the horse. <br>And first of all Tim?tes gan advise <br>Within the walls to lead and draw the same, <br>And place it eke amid the palace court,- <br>Whether of guile, or Troyes fate it would. <br>Capys, with some of judgment more discreet, <br>Will'd it to drown, or underset with flame, <br>The suspect present of the Greek's deceit, <br>Or bore and gauge the hollow caves uncouth; <br>So diverse ran the giddy people's mind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Lo! foremost of a rout that follow'd him, <br>Kindled La?n hasted from the tower, <br>Crying far off: 'O wretched citizens, <br>What so great kind of frenzy fretteth you? <br>Deem ye the Greeks, our enemies, to be gone? <br>Or any Greekish gifts can you suppose <br>Devoid of guile? Is so Ulysses known? <br>Either the Greeks are in this timber hid, <br>Or this an engine is to annoy our walls, <br>To view our towers, and overwhelm our town. <br>Here lurks some craft. Good Troyans, give no trust <br>Unto this horse, for, whatsoever it be, <br>I dread the Greeks, yea, when they offer gifts.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Howard">Henry Howard</a><div class=q>
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They whisted all, with fixed face attent, 
When Prince AEneas from the royal seat 
Thus gan to speak: O Queen, it is thy will 
I should renew a woe cannot be told, 
How that the Greeks did spoil and overthrow 
The Phrygian wealth and wail..."></div>
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