Note 65 — WINDSOR FOREST.
Reading edition
"The wat'ry plain" from the campi liquentes of Virgil, is an expression of Dryden's in his translation of Ovid, Met. i., and elsewhere. Drayton in his Polyolbion has the tyrant pike.—Wakefield.
"The luce, or pike," says Walton, "is the tyrant of the fresh waters."