Z 626 Dido and Aeneas III, 2: See the flags and streamers curling. [Italian translation]

SORCERESS

See the flags and streamers curling

Anchors weighing, sails unfurling.

FIRST WITCH

Phoebe's pale deluding beams

Guilding more deceitful streams.

SECOND WITCH

Our plot has took,

The Queen's forsook

TWO WITCHES

Elissa's ruin'd, ho, ho!

Our plot has took,

The Queen's forsook, ho, ho!

SORCERESS

Our next Motion

Must be to storme her Lover on the Ocean!

From the ruin of others our pleasures we borrow,

Elissa bleeds tonight, and Carthage flames tomorrow.

CHORUS

Destruction's our delight

Delight our greatest sorrow!

Elissa dies tonight and Carthage flames tomorrow.

A DANCE

• Artist:Henry Purcell
• Album:Purcell: Dido and Aeneas