in the Temple of Fame, I lament as much to find it placed there as to
see shops and sheds and cottages erected among the ruins of Diocletian's
baths.--WARTON.]
[Footnote 117: Pope places the temple of Fame on a precipitous rock of
ice, and Dennis charges him with departing from his allegory when he
describes the self-indulgent multitude, who are "even fatigued with
ease," as having toiled up the "steep and slippery ascent" to present
themselves before the goddess. There is the same defect in Chaucer.]
[Footnote 118:
Tho come another companye
That Lad ydone the treachery, &c.--POPE.
Pope in this paragraph had not only Chaucer in view, but the passage of
Virgil where he describes the criminals in the infernal regions. The
second line of Pope's opening couplet was suggested by Dryden's
translation, AEneis, vi. 825: