Note 137 — WINDSOR FOREST.
Reading edition
This couplet is directed at the Revolution, considered by Pope, in common with all jacobites, to be a like public calamity with the plague and the fire of London.—Croker.
Pope had in his mind, when he wrote the couplet, Creech's Hor., Ode xxxv. lib. 1.
I blush at the dishonest show, I die to see the wounds and scars, Those glories of our civil wars.