Note 19 — SPRING:
Reading edition
Waller's Chloris and Hylas:
Hylas, oh Hylas! why sit we mute Now that each bird saluteth the spring.—Wakefield.
Concanen having commented in the Supplement to the Profound upon the impropriety "of making an English clown call a well-known bird by a classical name," Pope wrote in the margin, "Spenser and Ph." The remainder of the second name has been cut off by the binder. Pope's memory deceived him if A. Philips was meant, for the nightingale is not once called Philomela in his Pastorals.