[Footnote 46: There is a passage resembling this in Walsh's third
eclogue:
Adieu, ye flocks, no more shall I pursue;
Adieu, ye groves; a long, a long adieu.--WAKEFIELD.]
[Footnote 47: These four last lines allude to the several subjects of
the four Pastorals, and to the several scenes of them particularized
before in each--POPE.
They should have been added by the poet in his own person, instead of
being put into the mouth of a shepherd who is not presumed to have any
knowledge of the previous pieces. The specific character which Pope
ascribes to each of his Pastorals is not borne out by the poems
themselves. There is as much about "flocks" in the first Pastoral as in
the second; and there is as much about "rural lays and loves" in the
second Pastoral as in the first. The third Pastoral contains no mention
of a "sylvan crew," but a couple of shepherds are absorbed by the same
"rural lays and loves" which occupied their predecessors.]