[6] Restored by Dr Carey. The first and second editions have other.
[7] First edit. Argos; restored by Dr Carey.
[8] Southern, according to the earlier editions; but, as Dr Carey observes, this must be a mistake of the pen or press.
[9] Dr Carey places a comma after skies, and thus makes come the preterite participle, instead of the verb in the present tense. But I have followed Dryden's punctuation, which gives a plain meaning.
[10] Dr Carey reads serenely, but there is no occasion to disturb the text. The word securely, though bold, is poetical, and implies the reliance which the husbandman places upon the steady and serene radiance of the sun.
GEORGICS,
BOOK II.
ARGUMENT.