FOOTNOTES:
[1] This fragment was first published in 1712, in Lintot's Miscellany.
[2] The reign of Procas, one of the fabulous kings of Alba Longa.
[3] Pope, in his youth, was not averse to affected phrases; but it is surprising that he could bring himself to call a garden "the vegetable care."
[4] "Sliding" is a very happy expression.—Bowles.
Pope borrowed it from the corresponding passage of Sandys—"Soft-sliding springs."
[5] Priapus.
[6] A broad band of cloth worn by women round the head.
[7] Sandys' Ovid, book ii.:
—his kisses too intemperate grow,
Not such as maids on maidens do bestow.
[8] Hippodameia. According to the fable, a Centaur carried her off at her marriage feast. This occasioned the battle between the Lapithæ, over whom her husband ruled, and the Centaurs.