Note 83 — WINDSOR FOREST.
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Sol erat a tergo: vidi præcedere longam Ante pedes umbram; nisi timor illa videbat. Sed certe sonituque pedum terrebar; et ingens Crinales vittas afflabat anhelitus oris. Ovid, Met. lib. v.— Warburton.
Sandys, whom our bard manifestly consulted, renders thus:
The sun was at our backs; before my feet I saw his shadow, or my fear did see't. Howere his sounding steps, and thick-drawn breath That fanned my hair, affrighted me to death.—Wakefield.
Not only is the story of Lodona copied from the transformation of Arethusa into a stream, but nearly all the particulars are taken from different passages in Ovid, of which Warburton has furnished a sufficient specimen.