[Footnote 42: I think these two lines would not have passed without
animadversion in any of our great schools.--WARTON.
Another couplet followed in the manuscript:
Here Tereus mourns, and Itys tells his pain,
Of Progne they, and I of you complain.
The horrible mythological story of Progne killing her son Itys, and
serving up his flesh to her husband Tereus out of revenge for his
violence to her sister Philomela, had no connection with the plaintive
sighs of a love-sick swain for an absent mistress. The inappropriateness
of the allusion was no doubt the reason why Pope omitted the couplet.]
[Footnote 43: Virg. Ecl. vii. 45: