Note 11 — SUMMER:
Reading edition
Virg. Ecl. vii. 60:
Jupiter et læto descendet plurimus imbri.—Pope.
In the original manuscript the couplet was slightly different:
Relenting Naïads wept in ev'ry bow'r, And Jove consented in a silent show'r.
Pope. "Objection, that the Naïads weeping in bowers is not so proper, being water nymphs, and that the word consented is doubted by some to whom I have shown these verses. Alteration:
The Naïads wept in ev'ry wat'ry bow'r, And Jove relented in a silent show'r.
Quære. Which of these do you like best?" Walsh. "The first. Upon second thoughts I think the second is best." Pope ended by adopting the first line of the second version, and the second line of the first.