Note 3 — SUMMER:
Reading edition
This was one of the passages submitted to Walsh. "Objection," remarks Pope, "against the parenthesis, he seeks no better name. Quære. Would it be anything better to say,
A shepherd's boy, who sung for love, not fame, etc.
Or,
A shepherd's boy, who fed an amorous flame.
Quære, which of all these is the best, or are none of them good." Walsh preferred the parenthesis in the text. "It is Spenser's way," he said, "and I think better than the others."