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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 21 — HYLAS AND ÆGON.

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Virg. Ecl. viii. 108:

an, qui amant, ipsi sibi somnia fingunt?—Pope.

In the first edition, conformably to the original plan of the Pastoral, the passage stood thus:

Do lovers dream, or is my shepherd kind? He comes, my shepherd comes.—Wakefield.

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