ouched heaven.--POPE.]

[Footnote 96: This notion of the enlargement of the temple is also from
Chaucer, who says that it became in length, breadth, and height, a
thousand times bigger than it was at first.]

[Footnote 97: The corresponding passage in Chaucer is not quoted by
Pope, who translated from their common original, Virg. AEn. iv. 181:

Cui quot sunt corpore plumae,
Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu,
Tot lunguae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit auris.]

[Footnote 98:

I heard about her throne y-sung
That all the palays walles rung;
So sung the mighty Muse, she
That cleped is Calliope,
And her eighte sisters eke.--POPE.

Pope should have continued the extract; for his next four lines were
prompted by the succeeding four in Chaucer:

And evermore eternally
They sing of Fame as tho heard I;
"Heried be thou and thy name
Goddess of renown or fame."

"Heried" means praised.]

[Footnote 99:

I heard a noise approchen blive,
That fared as bees done in a hive,
Against their time of out flying;
Right such a manere murmering,
For all the world it seemed me.
Tho gan I look about and see
That there came entring into th' hall,
A right great company withal;
And that of sundry regions,
Of all kind of conditions, &c.--POPE.]

[Footnote 100: This description is varied with improvements from Dryden,
AEneis, vi. 958.

About the boughs an airy nation flew
Thick as the humming bees that hunt the golden dew:
The winged army roams the field around,
The rivers and the rocks remurmer to the sound.--WAKEFIELD.

He was assisted by another passage in Dryden's Flower and Leaf:

Thick as the college of the bees in May,
When swarming o'er the dusky fields they fly,
Now to the flow'rs, and intercept the sky.]

[Footnote 101: So in Chaucer all degrees, "poor and rich" fall down on
their knees before Fame and beg her to grant them their petition.]

[Footnote 102: "The tattling quality of age which, as Sir William
Davenant says, is always narrative." Dryden's Dedication of
Juvenal.--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 103:

And some of them she granted sone,
And some she warned well and fair,
And some she granted the contrair--
Right as her sister dame Fortune
Is wont to serven in commune.--POPE.

Chaucer and Pope describe Fame as bestowing reputation upon some, and
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