See also Catullus, In Nupt. Jun. et Manl. 216:
| "Torquatus volo parvulus Matris e gremio suae Porrigens teneras manus, Dulce rideat." |
[91.] These golden keys. Cf. Young, Resig.:
| "Nature, which favours to the few All art beyond imparts, To him presented at his birth The key of human hearts." |
Wakefield cites Comus, 12:
| "Yet some there be, that with due steps aspire To lay their hands upon that golden key That opes the palace of eternity." |
See also Lycidas, 110:
| "Two massy keys he bore of metals twain; The golden opes, the iron shuts amain." |
[93.] Of horror. A MS. variation is "Of terror."
[94.] Or ope the sacred source. In a letter to Dr. Wharton, Sept. 7, 1757, Gray mentions, among other criticisms upon this ode, that "Dr. Akenside criticises opening a source with a key." But, as Mitford remarks, Akenside himself in his Ode on Lyric Poetry has, "While I so late unlock thy purer springs," and in his Pleasures of Imagination, "I unlock the springs of ancient wisdom."