[15] Dryden's Palamon and Arcite:
Fresh as the month, and as the morning fair.—Wakefield.
[16] From Virgil, Ecl. vii. 20:
Hos Corydon, illos referebat in ordine Thyrsis.—Wakefield.
[17] Milton's first sonnet:
O! nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray
Warblest at eve!—Wakefield.
[18] Congreve's Tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas:
When grateful birds prepare their thanks to pay,
And warble hymns to hail the dawning day.—Wakefield.
[19] Waller's Chloris and Hylas:
Hylas, oh Hylas! why sit we mute
Now that each bird saluteth the spring.—Wakefield.