Note 12 — SPRING:
Reading edition
Concanen, in a pamphlet called A Supplement to the Profound, objected to the use of an image borrowed from the theatre, and Pope, in vindication of his line, has written "Dryden" in the margin, alluding doubtless to a couplet in Dryden's verses to the Duchess of York:
Each poet of the air her glory sings And round him the pleased audience clap their wings.
Every one must feel the image to be burlesque, and even Dryden's authority cannot recommend it.