[14.] O'ercanopies the glade. Gray himself quotes Shakes. M. N. D. ii. 1: "A bank o'ercanopied with luscious woodbine."1 Cf. Fletcher, Purple Island, i. 5, 30: "The beech shall yield a cool, safe canopy;" and Milton, Comus, 543: "a bank, With ivy canopied."
1 The reading of the folio of 1623 is:
| "I know a banke where the wilde time blowes, Where Oxslips and the nodding Violet growes, Quite ouer-cannoped with luscious woodbine." |
Dyce and some other modern editors read,
"Quite overcanopied with lush woodbine."
[15.] Rushy brink. Cf. Comus, 890: "By the rushy-fringed bank."
[19, 20.] These lines, as first printed, read:
| "How low, how indigent the proud! How little are the great!" |
[22.] The panting herds. Cf. Pope, Past. ii. 87: "To closer shades the panting flocks remove."