Note 143 — WINDSOR FOREST.
Reading edition
Augusta was the name which the Romans at one period gave to London. The representation of the god attended by
All little rivers, which owe vassalage To him, as to their lord, and tribute pay,
and the accompanying enumeration of the subsidiary streams, is closely imitated from the Faery Queen. Pope professes to describe the river-gods who stood round the throne of Father Thames, but he has confounded the river-gods with the rivers, and some of his epithets,—"winding Isis," "blue transparent Vandalis," "gulphy Lee,"—are not applicable to persons.