Note 40 — SPRING:
Reading edition
Imitation of Virgil, Ecl. iii. 64:
Malo me Galatea petit, lasciva puella, Et fugit ad salices, et se cupit ante videri.—Pope.
He probably consulted Creech's translation of the passage in Virgil:
Sly Galatea drives me o'er the green, And apples throws, then hides, yet would be seen.—Wakefield.