Note 33 — HYLAS AND ÆGON.
Reading edition
Virg. Ecl. viii. 43:
Nunc scio quid sit amor. Duris in cotibus illum, etc.—Pope.
Stafford's version of the original in Dryden's Miscellanies:
I know thee, Love! on mountains thou wast bred.
Pope was not unmindful of Dryden's translation:
I know thee, Love! in deserts thou wert bred, And at the dugs of savage tigers fed.
He had in view also a passage in the Æneid, iv. 366, and Dryden's version of it:
But hewn from hardened entrails of a rock, And rough Hyrcanian tigers gave thee suck.
Nor did our author overlook the parallel passage in Ovid's Epistle of Dido to Æneas, and Dryden's translation thereof:
From hardened oak, or from a rock's cold womb, At least thou art from some fierce tigress come; Or on rough seas, from their foundation torn, Got by the winds, and in a tempest born.—Wakefield.