Note 118 — WINDSOR FOREST.
Reading edition
All the lines that follow were not added to the poem till the year 1710 [1712]. What immediately followed this, and made the conclusion, were these;
My humble muse in unambitious strains Paints the green forests and the flow'ry plains; Where I obscurely pass my careless days, Pleased in the silent shade with empty praise, Enough for me that to the list'ning swains First in these fields I sung the sylvan strains.—Pope.