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

Note 26 — HYLAS AND ÆGON.

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This fancy he derived from Virgil, Ecl. x. 53:

tenerisque meos incidere amores Arboribus. The rind of ev'ry plant her name shall know. Dryden.—Wakefield.

Garth's Dispensary, Canto vi:

Their wounded bark records some broken vow, And willow garlands hang on ev'ry bough.

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