[Footnote 34: In place of this couplet the original manuscript read,
Ye fountain nymphs, propitious to the swain,
Now grant me Phoebus', or Alexis' strain.
Pope imitated Virgil, Ecl. vii. 21:
Mihi carmen,
Quale meo Codro, concedite: proxima Phoebi
Versibus ille facit.]
[Footnote 35: George Granville, afterwards Lord Lansdowne, known for his
poems, most of which he composed very young, and proposed Waller as his
model.--POPE.]
[Footnote 36: Virgil, Ecl. iii. 86:
Pascite taurum,
Qui cornu petat, et pedibus jam spargat arenam.--POPE.
Dryden, AEn. ix. 859:
A snow-white steer before thy altar led:
And dares the fight, and spurns the yellow sands.--WAKEFIELD.
The second line of the couplet in the text ran thus in the original
manuscript:
With butting horns, and heels that spurn the sand.
This also was from Dryden, Ecl. iii. 135: