"I will take what Herod offers," he thought.

"I will make war on the cats and the serpents." He had forgotten everything now save his bitterness.
"See! 'Tis gone!" said his friend, in a loud whisper.

"The star is gone! I saw it disappear as if a cloud were suddenly come over it." All drew rein, looking into the sky.

Many stars were now uncovered in the vault above them.
"'Twas a light on the hills," said Vergilius, with a vague fear in him.
"Yonder I can see a smaller one.

'Tis a lantern.