ntroduced in the manner of the Provencal
poets, whose works were for the most part visions, or pieces of
imagination, and constantly descriptive. From these, Petrarch and
Chaucer frequently borrow the idea of their poems. See the Trionfi of
the former, and the Dream, Flower and the Leaf, &c. of the latter. The
author of this therefore chose the same sort of exordium.--POPE.]

[Footnote 2: Dryden, Virg. Geor. ii. 456:

And boldly trust their buds in open air.
In this soft season.--WAKEFIELD.

Dryden's Flower and Leaf:

Where Venus from her orb descends in show'rs
To glad the ground, and paint the fields with flow'rs.]

[Footnote 3: Dryden, Geor. iii. 500:

But when the western winds with vital pow'r
Call forth the tender grass, and budding flow'r.--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 4: Dryden's Flower and Leaf:

Salute the welcome sun and entertain the day.]

[Footnote 5: That admirable term "relenting" might probably be furnished
by Ogilby at the beginning of the first Georgic:

And harder glebe relents with vernal winds.--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 6: Dryden's Flower and Leaf:

Cares I had none to keep me from my rest,
For love had never entered in my breast.]

[Footnote 7: Morning dreams were thought the most significant. Thus
Dryden, in his version of the Tale of the Nun's Priest:

Believe me, madam, morning dreams foreshow
Th' events of things, and future weal or woe.]

[Footnote 8: Cowley, in his Complaint:

In a deep vision's intellectual scene;

and Mrs. Singer's Vision:

No wild uncouth chimeras intervene
To break the perfect intellectual scene.--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 9: Dryden, Ovid, Met. xii.:

Full in the midst of this created space,
Betwixt heav'n, earth, and skies, there stands a place
Confining on all three.--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 10: This verse was formed from a very fine one in Paradise
Lost, vii. 242:

And earth self-balanced on her center hung.--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 11: Addison's translation of a passage from Ausonius:

And intermingled temples rise between.]

[Footnote 12: These verses are hinted from the following of Chaucer,
book ii.:

Tho beheld I fields and plains,
And now hills, and now mountains,
Now valeys, and now forestes,
And now unnethes great bestes,
Now riveres, now citees,
Now townes, and now great trees,
Now shippes sayling in the sea.--POPE.

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