s
since been appropriated to the dressed green-sward in gardens.]

[Footnote 38: Richard, second son of William the Conqueror.--POPE.

Richard is said by some to have been killed by a stag in the New Forest,
by others to have been crushed against a tree by his horse.]

[Footnote 39: This verse is taken from one of Denham's in his
translation of the Second AEneis:

At once the taker, and at once the prey.--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 40: The oak under which Rufus was shot, was standing till
within these few years.--BOWLES.

A stone pillar now marks the spot.--CROKER.]

[Footnote 41: In the New Forest, where the cottages had been swept away
by William. "Succeeding monarchs" did not, as Pope implies, suffer
encroachments on the forest out of pity for their subjects. The
concession was extorted. Some of the provisions of Magna Charta were
directed against the increase of the royal forests and against the "evil
customs" maintained with respect to them.]

[Footnote 42: Mountains hitherto unknown to the flocks, who were now for
the first time permitted to feed there.]

[Footnote 43:

Miraturque novas frondes et non sua poma. Virg.--WARBURTON.

Virgil is treating of grafts, and says that the parent stock, when the
slips grow, wonders at leaves and fruit not its own. Here the
imagination keeps pace with the description, but stops short before the
notion that the trees in the forest wondered to behold the crops of
corn.]

[Footnote 44: He doubtless had in his eye, Vir. AEn. i. 506:

Latonae tacitum pertentant gaudia pectus.--WAKEFIELD.

Dryden's translation:

And feeds with secret joy her silent breast.

In Virgil the silent exultation is felt by a mother, who, in an assembly
of nymphs, marks the superior beauty of her goddess daughter. There was
not the same reason why the swain should keep secret the transport he
felt at the sight of wheat fields.]

[Footnote 45: Originally:

O may no more a foreign master's rage,
With wrongs yet legal, curse a future age!
Still spread, fair liberty! thy heav'nly wings,
Breathe plenty on the fields, and fragrance on the springs.--POPE.

The last couplet was suggested by Addison's Letter to Lord Halifax:

O Liberty, thou goddess heav'nly bright,
Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign,
And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.]

[Footnote 46: Addison's Campaign:

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