Note 139 — WINDSOR FOREST.
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Dryden's Annus Mirabilis:
Old Father Thames raised up his rev'rend head.
And again, at the conclusion of his Threnodia Augustalis:
While, starting from his oozy bed, Th' asserted ocean rears his rev'rend head.—Wakefield.
The gods of rivers are invariably represented as old men.