Note 4 — SUMMER:
Reading edition
Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar:
A shepherd boy (no better do him call) Led forth his flock.—Bowles.
Pope's second Pastoral is an ostensible imitation of Spenser's first eclogue, which is devoted to a lover's complaint, but though Pope has echoed some of the sentiments of Spenser, and appropriated an occasional line, his style has little resemblance to that of his model.