Through all the plain.
[52] Leave the broad earth.] Virgil alludes to this passage, Georg. ii. 473.
From hence Astræa took her flight, and here
The prints of her departing steps appear.
Dryden.
As also Juvenal: Sat. vi. line 19.
I well believe in Saturn’s ancient reign
This Chastity might long on earth remain:—
By slow degrees her steps Astræa sped
To heaven above, and both the sisters fled.