Note 111 — WINDSOR FOREST.
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On the margin of his manuscript Pope wrote the passage of Virgil which he imitated:
quæ, Tiberine, videbis Funera, cum tumulum præterlabere recentem.
The "pomp" was not a poetical exaggeration. Evelyn, who attended the funeral, says that Cowley's body was "conveyed to Westminster Abbey in a hearse with six horses, near a hundred coaches of noblemen, and persons of quality following."