They know their sovereign and they fear to roar.]

[Footnote 157: The Hermus is characterised by Virgil as "turbid with
gold." The property was more usually ascribed to its tributary, the
Pactolus, but there was no gold in either.]

[Footnote 158: An undoubted imitation, I think, of Dr. Bathurst's verses
on Selden:

As when old Nilus, who with bounteous flows
Waters a hundred nations as he goes,
Scattering rich harvests, keeps his sacred head
Amidst the clouds still undiscovered.

Homer denominates the Nile, whose sources were unknown, a river that
falls from Jupiter or heaven. And our countryman calls it sevenfold, as
Ovid before him _septemfluus_, and Catullus still earlier
_septemgeminus_, from the seven mouths by which its waters are
discharged into the Mediterranean.--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 159: Originally thus in the MS.

Let Venice boast her tow'rs amidst the main,
Where the rough Adrian swells and roars in vain;
Here not a town, but spacious realms shall have
A sure foundation on the rolling wave.--WARBURTON.

This he altered with his usual discernment, on account of the mean
conceit in the equivocal use of the word "foundation."--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 160: This alludes to General Stanhope's campaigns on the Ebro,
and the Duke of Marlborough's on the Danube.--CROKER.

In saying that British blood should no more dye foreign lands, Pope
meant to furnish an argument for the Peace by intimating that the war
was kept up, at the sacrifice of English life, for the benefit of other
nations.]

[Footnote 161: In the manuscript:

O'er all the Forests shall appear no trace.

[Footnote 162: And certainly sufficient ferocity is displayed even in
these amusements. Cowley says,

And all his malice, all his craft is shown
In innocent wars, on beasts and birds alone.

His commentator, Dr. Hurd, remarks in a spirit that endears him to the
reader, "Innocent, he means, in comparison with wars on his own
kind."--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 163: The fifty new churches.--POPE.]

[Footnote 164: This seems imitated from Hopkins' Court Prospect:

As far as fair Augusta's buildings reach,
Bent, like a bow, along a peaceful beach.--WAKEFIELD.

Cowley's Somerset House:

And here, behold, in a long bending row,
How two joint cities make one glorious bow.

Whitehall is just above that circular sweep of the Thames in the midst
of which the cities of London and