[1]

“Then tripping to the woods the wanton hies

And wishes to be seen before she flies.”

—Virgil, Pastorals: book i.; Dryden’s translation. [↑]

[2]

“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. [↑]

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