Note 21 — WINDSOR FOREST.
Reading edition
Originally thus in the MS.:
From towns laid waste, to dens and caves they ran (For who first stooped to be a slave was man).—Warburton.
The conceit is childish, because dens and caves are the residence of these brutes at all times, and therefore their retreat to these places constitutes no argument of their aversion to slavery. And the following couplet is by no means worthy of the poet.—Wakefield.