[Footnote 18: Oldham's translation of Moschus:
Each flower fades and hangs its withered head,
And scorns to thrive or live now thou art dead.--WAKEFIELD.]
[Footnote 19: Variation:
For her the flocks the dewy herbs disdain,
Nor hungry heifers graze the tender plain.--POPE.
Dryden's Virg. Ecl. v. 38:
The thirsty cattle of themselves abstained
From water, and their grassy fare disdained.