[L. 13.] Seul Elliptical: 'when I am alone.'
[L. 19.] distraits, diverted from their uneasy, anxious thoughts.
[Ll. 21-28.] Imitated from Horace, Od. III. iv.
[Ll. 23.] Catile. Catilus and Tibur are one and the same place, now Tivoli (l. 26): Moenia Catile in Horace.
[L. 24.] Blandusie. Horace, Od. iii. 13, celebrates its fountain.
[L. 26.] Tivoli, i.e. Tibur, where Horace's villa stood.
[L. 27.] Horace, Od. II. xix.
[L. 35.] Theocritus, Id. iii. 12. Bruyante abeille is of course a nominative in apposition to Je. So with rose, &c.
[L. 36.] les délices, the sweets.
[Ll. 37.] Anthol. v. 84.