"Hence, vain deluding Joys,
The brood of Folly, without father bred!"
20. Mitford quotes Oldham, _Ode_: "And know I have not yet the
leisure to be good."
22. _The summer friend_. Cf. Geo. Herbert, _Temple_: "like summer
friends, flies of estates and sunshine;" Quarles, _Sion's Elegies_,
xix.: "Ah, summer friendship with the summer ends;" Massinger, _Maid
of Honour_: "O summer friendship." See also Shakespeare, _T. of A._
iii. 6:
"_2d Lord_. The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your
lordship.
"_Timon_ [_aside_]. Nor more willingly leaves winter; such
summer-birds are men;"
and _T. and C._ iii. 3:
"For men, like butterflies,
Shew not their mealy wings but to the summer."
Mitford suggests that Gray had in mind Horace, _Od._ i. 35, 25:
"At vulgus infidum et meretrix retro
Perjura cedit; diffugiunt cadis
Cum faece siccatis amici
Ferre jugum pariter dolosi."
25. _In sable garb_. Cf. Milton, _Il Pens._ 16: "O'erlaid with black,
staid Wisdom's hue."
28. _With leaden eye_. Evidently suggested by Milton's description of
Melancholy, _Il Pens._ 43:
"Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes;
There, held in holy passion still,
Forget thyself to marble, till
With a sad leaden downward cast
Thou fix them on the earth as fast."
Mitford cites Sidney, _Astrophel and Stella_, song 7: "So leaden
eyes;" Dryden, _Cymon and Iphigenia_, 57: "And stupid eyes that ever
lov'd the ground;" Shakespeare, _Pericles_, i. 2: "The sad companion,
dull-eyed Melancholy;" and _L. L. L._ iv. 3: "In leaden
contemplation." Cf. also _The Bard_, 69, 70.