Note 215 — Chapter VIII
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Dryden has expanded these magnificent lines, without expressing entirely either their literal meaning or their spirit. But he has added, as usual, beautiful ideas of his own, equally applicable to the scene described in the text:—
"A mighty breach is made; the rooms conceal'd Appear, and all the palace is reveal'd; The halls of audience, and of public state— And where the lovely Queen in secret sate, Arm'd soldiers now by trembling maids are seen With not a door, and scarce a space between." Æneid, book ii.—S.