Note 16 — HYLAS AND ÆGON.
Reading edition
Virg. Ecl. viii. 52:
aurea duræ Mala ferant quercus, narcisso floreat alnus; Pinguia corticibus sudent electra myricæ.—Pope.
His obligations are also due to Dryden's version of Ecl. iv. 21:
Unlaboured harvests shall the fields adorn, And clustered grapes shall blush on ev'ry thorn: And knotted oaks shall show'rs of honey weep, And through the matted grass the liquid gold shall creep.
Bowles, in his translation of Theocritus, Idyll. v., assisted our bard:
On brambles now let violets be born, And op'ning roses blush on ev'ry thorn.
He seems to have had in view also the third Eclogue of Walsh:
Upon hard oaks let blushing peaches grow, And from the brambles liquid amber flow.—Wakefield.