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Exeunt Omnes.<br />
you. To tell you only what they think<br />
true. Having taught you a lesson I<br />
know you won’t forget, it is I, not<br />
they, who says, to whit: follow implore<br />
don’t dwell here too long. I see you<br />
weaken, your heart is not strong. What I suggest<br />
I only mean for you to have the best.<br />
The Lament of Aeneas 79<br />
Aeneas: Hapless Dido, the victim of a cursed<br />
stroke! Thought so much of me, so little of<br />
self that she did smote. But though she<br />
is dead, an untimely word I<br />
offer, tis time for me to make it better.<br />
love be the tie that binds we now<br />
and forever more. The men astutely<br />
adjudge what I must do. They who fought<br />
and died for me, now have the dubious<br />
dishonor of seeing their former leader<br />
imprisoned by his own wretched demons.<br />
Was it worth the torment? How fare’s my<br />
Rome? What, have I done? P’rhaps my actions,<br />
as heinous as they may seem, will<br />
augur the future of Rome as a great city.<br />
The best even the world has ever<br />
known. A bloody scourge to many lands,<br />
my life, as its founder, will serve as<br />
Harbinger. Stray not too far from what<br />
is right. For surely these shades were sent<br />
By the gods; who, think me unfit.<br />
Let me make the journey from the<br />
realm of the living to the dead, with<br />
my last thoughts as a comfort to me.<br />
Dido, stretch forth your hand. It is she whom<br />
I shall follow into the great beyond.<br />
Behold! Above! A light! I go. . .<br />
Chorus reenters the stage, and surrounds the bed as Aeneas feverishly<br />
collapses. In his current emotional and dying state, he fails to notice his former<br />
companions as they summarize the play.<br />
Chorus: Of arms and a man, yes Virgil<br />
did sing. And now the bell for his hero<br />
doth ring. Tolling his downfall, man of
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