Note 107 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
“O roving muse! recall that wondrous year, When hoary Thames, with frosted osiers crown’d, Was three long moons in icy fetters bound.”
The allusion is doubtless to the year 1684, famous for its exceeding cold.
Reading edition
“O roving muse! recall that wondrous year, When hoary Thames, with frosted osiers crown’d, Was three long moons in icy fetters bound.”
The allusion is doubtless to the year 1684, famous for its exceeding cold.