Note 34 — SPRING:
Reading edition
In place of this couplet the original manuscript read,
Ye fountain nymphs, propitious to the swain, Now grant me Phœbus', or Alexis' strain.
Pope imitated Virgil, Ecl. vii. 21:
Mihi carmen, Quale meo Codro, concedite: proxima Phœbi Versibus ille facit.