[Footnote 13: Isaiah xxv. 4,--POPE. "_For thou hast been a strength to
the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the
storm, a shadow from the heat._"]
[Footnote 14: Warburton says that Pope referred to the fraud of the
serpent, but the allusion is more general, and the poet had probably in
his mind the "priscae vestigia fraudis," which Wakefield quotes from
Virg. Ecl. iv. 31, and which Dryden renders