[Footnote 7: This is borrowed from the lines, quoted by Bowles, in which
Denham alludes to the founder of Windsor Castle being as doubtful as was
the birth-place of Homer:

Like him in birth, thou should'st be like in fame,
As thine his fate, if mine had been his flame.]

[Footnote 8: From Waller:

As in old chaos heav'n with earth confused,
And stars with rocks together crushed and bruised.--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 9: Evidently from Cooper's Hill:

Here Nature, whether more intent to please
Us, or herself, with strange varieties,
Wisely she knew the harmony of things,
As well as that of sounds, from discord springs.
Such was the discord which did first disperse
Form, order, beauty through the universe.--WARTON.

[Footnote 10: There is a levity in this comparison which appears to me
unseasonable, and but ill according with the serene dignity of the
subject.--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 11: Originally thus:

Why should I sing our better suns or air,
Whose vital draughts prevent the leech's care,
While through fresh fields th' enlivening odours breathe,
Or spread with vernal blooms the purple heath?--POPE.

The first couplet of the lines in Pope's note, was from Dryden's epistle
to his kinsman:

He scapes the best, who, nature to repair,
Draws physic from the fields, in draughts of vital air.]

[Footnote 12: Milton's Allegro, ver. 78:

Bosomed high in tufted trees.--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 13: Milton, Par. Lost, iv. 248:

Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balms.

This fancy was borrowed from the ancients. According to Ovid (Met. x.
500), Myrrha, changed into a tree, weeps myrrh, and the sisters of
Phaeton (Met. ii. 364), transformed into poplars, shed tears which harden
in the sun, and turn into amber.]

[Footnote 14: This fabulous mixture of stale images, Olympus and the
Gods, is, in my opinion, extremely puerile, especially in a description
of real scenery. Pan, Pomona, and the rest, mere representative
substitutions, give no offence.--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 15: The making the hills nobler than Olympus with all its
gods, because the gods appeared "in their blessings" on the humbler
mountains of Windsor, is a thought only to be excused in a very young
writer.--BOWLES.]

[Footnote 16: The word "crowned" is exceptionable; it makes Pan crowned
with flocks.--WARTON.

Pope, in his manuscript, has underscored "Pan with floc