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[ 'Garth:' Dr Samuel Garth, author of the 'Dispensary.']
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[ 'The woods,' &c., from Spenser.]
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[ 'Wycherley:' the dramatist. See Life.]
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[ This pastoral, Pope's own favourite, was produced on occasion of the death of a Mrs Tempest, a favourite of Mr Walsh, the poet's friend, who died on the night of the great storm in 1703, to which there are allusions. The scene lies in a grove—time, midnight.]
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[ 'Stagyrite: Aristotle.]