[Footnote 37: Originally thus in the manuscript:
Pan, let my numbers equal Strephon's lays,
Of Parian stone thy statue will I raise;
But if I conquer and augment my fold,
Thy Parian statue shall be changed to gold.--WARBURTON.
This he formed on Dryden's Vir. Ecl. vii. 45:
Thy statue then of Parian stone shall stand;
But if the falling lambs increase my fold,
Thy marble statue shall be turned to gold.--WAKEFIELD.]
[Footnote 38: Pope had at first written,
The lovely Chloris beckons from the plain,
Then hides in shades from her deluded swain.
"Objection," he says, in the paper he submitted to Walsh, "that _hides_
without the accusative _herself_ is not good English, and that _from her
deluded swain_ is needless. Alteration:
The wanton Chloris beckons from the plain,
Then, hid in shades, eludes her eager swain.
Quaere. If _wanton_ be more significant than _lovely_; if _eludes_ be
properer in this case than _deluded_; if _eager_ be an expressive
epithet to the swain who searches for his mistress?"
Walsh. "_Wanton_ applied to a woman is equivocal, and therefore not
proper. _Eludes_ is properer than _deluded_. _Eager_ is very well."]
[Footnote 39: He owes this thought to Horace, Ode i. 9, 21.--WAKEFIELD.
Or rather to the version of Dryden, since the lines of Pope have a
closer resemblance to the translation than to the original:
The laugh that guides thee to the mark,
When the kind nymph would coyness feign,
And hides but to be found again.]
[Footnote 40: Imitation of Virgil, Ecl. iii. 64:
Malo me Galatea petit, lasciva puella,
Et fugit ad salices, et se cupit ante videri.--POPE.
He probably consulted Creech's translation of the passage in Virgil:
Sly Galatea drives me o'er the green,
And apples throws, then hides, yet would be seen.--WAKEFIELD.]
[Footnote 41: Dryden's Don Sebastian;
A brisk Arabian girl came tripping by;
Passing, she cast at him a sidelong glance,
And looked behind, in hopes to be pursued.--STEEVENS.]
[Footnote 42: A very trifling and false conceit.--WARTON.]
[Footnote 43: In place of the next speech of Strephon, and the reply of
Daphnis, the dialogue continued thus in the original manuscript: