[Footnote 1: This fragment was first published in 1712, in Lintot's
Miscellany.]
[Footnote 2: The reign of Procas, one of the fabulous kings of Alba
Longa.]
[Footnote 3: Pope, in his youth, was not averse to affected phrases; but
it is surprising that he could bring himself to call a garden "the
vegetable care."]
[Footnote 4: "Sliding" is a very happy expression.--BOWLES.
Pope borrowed it from the corresponding passage of Sandys--"Soft-sliding
springs."]
[Footnote 5: Priapus.]
[Footnote 6: A broad band of cloth worn by women round the head.]
[Footnote 7: Sandys' Ovid, book ii.:
--his kisses too intemperate grow,
Not such as maids on maidens do bestow.]
[Footnote 8: Hippodameia. According to the fable, a Centaur carried her
off at her marriage feast. This occasioned the battle between the
Lapithae, over whom her husband ruled, and the Centaurs.]