Dryden's verse is:
Love conquers all, and we must yield to love.—Wakefield.
[46] There is a passage resembling this in Walsh's third eclogue:
Adieu, ye flocks, no more shall I pursue;
Adieu, ye groves; a long, a long adieu.—Wakefield.
[47] These four last lines allude to the several subjects of the four Pastorals, and to the several scenes of them particularized before in each—Pope.
They should have been added by the poet in his own person, instead of being put into the mouth of a shepherd who is not presumed to have any knowledge of the previous pieces. The specific character which Pope ascribes to each of his Pastorals is not borne out by the poems themselves. There is as much about "flocks" in the first Pastoral as in the second; and there is as much about "rural lays and loves" in the second Pastoral as in the first. The third Pastoral contains no mention of a "sylvan crew," but a couple of shepherds are absorbed by the same "rural lays and loves" which occupied their predecessors.