Note 25 — MESSIAH,
Reading edition
He seems to have had in his eye Cromwell's translation of Ovid, Amor, ii. 16:
Then, as you pass, let mountains homage pay And bow their tow'ring heads to smooth your way.—Wakefield.
Reading edition
He seems to have had in his eye Cromwell's translation of Ovid, Amor, ii. 16:
Then, as you pass, let mountains homage pay And bow their tow'ring heads to smooth your way.—Wakefield.