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Achates strikes a Flint, and from the Stroke
The lurking Seeds of Fire in Sparkles broke;
The catching Flame on Leaves and Stubble preys,
Then gathers Strength, and mounts into a Blaze.
Tir’d with their Labours, they prepare to dine,240
And grind their Corn, infected with the Brine.

Æneas mounts a Rock, and thence surveys
The wide and wat’ry Prospect of the Seas;
Now hopes the shatter’d Phrygian Ships to find,
Antheus, or Capys, driving with the Wind;245
And now Caicus' glitt’ring Arms to spy,
Wide o’er the vast Horizon darts his Eye.
The Chief could view no Vessel on the Main;
But three tall Stags, stalk’d proudly o’er the Plain;
Before the Herd their beamy Fronts they rais’d, 250
Stretch’d out in length the Train along the Valley graz’d.
The Prince, who spy’d ’em on the Shore below,
Stop’d Short–then snatch’d the feather’d Shafts and Bow: