[Footnote 16: Virg. Ecl. viii. 52:
aurea durae
Mala ferant quercus, narcisso floreat alnus;
Pinguia corticibus sudent electra myricae.--POPE.
His obligations are also due to Dryden's version of Ecl. iv. 21:
Unlaboured harvests shall the fields adorn,
And clustered grapes shall blush on ev'ry thorn:
And knotted oaks shall show'rs of honey weep,
And through the matted grass the liquid gold shall creep.
Bowles, in his translation of Theocritus, Idyll. v., assisted our bard:
On brambles now let violets be born,
And op'ning roses blush on ev'ry thorn.
He seems to have had in view also the third Eclogue of Walsh:
Upon hard oaks let blushing peaches grow,
And from the brambles liquid amber flow.--WAKEFIELD.]
[Footnote 17: These four lines followed in the MS.:
With him through Libyia's burning plains I'll go,
On Alpine mountains tread th' eternal snow;
Yet feel no heat but what our loves impart,
And dread no coldness but in Thyrsis' heart.--WARBURTON.
Wakefield remarks that the second line in this passage is taken from
Dryden's Virg. Ecl. x. 71: