The gods to live in woods have left the skies.
The second line he expanded into a couplet:
Along the streams, his flock Adonis led,
And yet the queen of beauty blest his bed.
This last verse has nothing answering to it in Virgil, but it suggested
ver. 63 of the pastoral to Pope, who copied Dryden, and not the
original.]
[Footnote 40: This is formed from Virg. Ecl. ii. 10:
rapido fessis messoribus aestu.
The reapers tired with sultry heats.--Ogilby.--WAKEFIELD.]
[Footnote 41: He had in his mind Virg. Ecl. iii. 93: