Note 36 — SPRING:
Reading edition
Virgil, Ecl. iii. 86:
Pascite taurum, Qui cornu petat, et pedibus jam spargat arenam.—Pope.
Dryden, Æn. ix. 859:
A snow-white steer before thy altar led: And dares the fight, and spurns the yellow sands.—Wakefield.
The second line of the couplet in the text ran thus in the original manuscript:
With butting horns, and heels that spurn the sand.
This also was from Dryden, Ecl. iii. 135:
With spurning heels, and with a butting head.