o enable the spectators to recognise the likeness of
the countenance to Vandyke's portraits of the king, and to ascertain
that the head had been severed from the body.]

[Footnote 135: Originally thus in the MS.

Oh fact accurst! oh sacrilegious brood,
Sworn to rebellion, principled in blood!
Since that dire morn what tears has Albion shed,
Gods! what new wounds, &c.--WARBURTON.]

[Footnote 136: To say that the plague in London, and its consumption by
fire, were judgments inflicted by heaven for the murder of Charles I.,
is a very extraordinary stretch of tory principles indeed.--WARTON.]

[Footnote 137: This couplet is directed at the Revolution, considered by
Pope, in common with all jacobites, to be a like public calamity with
the plague and the fire of London.--CROKER.

Pope had in his mind, when he wrote the couplet, Creech's Hor., Ode
xxxv. lib. 1.

I blush at the dishonest show,
I die to see the wounds and scars,
Those glories of our civil wars.]

[Footnote 138: Thus in the MS.

Till Anna rose, and bade the Furies cease;
_Let there be peace_--she said, and all was _peace_.--WARBURTON.

It may be presumed that Pope varied the couplet from perceiving the
impropriety of a parody on the fiat of the Creator.]

[Footnote 139: Dryden's Annus Mirabilis:

Old Father Thames raised up his rev'rend head.

And again, at the conclusion of his Threnodia Augustalis:

While, starting from his oozy bed,
Th' asserted ocean rears his rev'rend head.--WAKEFIELD.

The gods of rivers are invariably represented as old men.]

[Footnote 140: Spenser of Father Thames:

his beard all gray
Dewed with silver drops that trickled down alway.--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 141: Between verse 330 and 331, originally stood these lines;

From shore to shore exulting shouts he heard,
O'er all his banks a lambent light appeared,
With sparkling flames heav'n's glowing concave shone,
Fictitious stars, and glories not her own.
He saw, and gently rose above the stream
His shining horns diffused a golden gleam:
With pearl and gold his tow'ry front was drest,
The tributes of the distant East and West.--POPE.]

[Footnote 142: Horns were a classical attribute of rivers,--not I think,
according to the common view, as a mark of dignity, but as a symbolical
expression of the fact that the principal streams, like the ocean
itself, are f