Note 44 — WINDSOR FOREST.
Reading edition
He doubtless had in his eye, Vir. Æn. i. 506:
Latonæ tacitum pertentant gaudia pectus.—Wakefield.
Dryden's translation:
And feeds with secret joy her silent breast.
In Virgil the silent exultation is felt by a mother, who, in an assembly of nymphs, marks the superior beauty of her goddess daughter. There was not the same reason why the swain should keep secret the transport he felt at the sight of wheat fields.