“Then tripping to the woods the wanton hies
And wishes to be seen before she flies.”
—Virgil, Pastorals: book i.; Dryden’s translation. [↑]
“Safe under covert of the silent night
And guided by the imperial galley’s light.”
—Virgil, Æneid: book ii.; Dryden’s translation. [↑]
[3] The enclosed piece of waste land, adjoining his house at Sérignan, in which the author used to study his insects in their natural state. Cf. The Life of the Fly: chap. i.—Translator’s Note. [↑]