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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 99 — WINDSOR FOREST.

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This is taken from Horace's epistle to Tibullus:

An tacitum silvas inter reptare salubres, Curantem quidquid dignum sapiente bonoque est?—Wakefield.

Pope remembered Creech's translation of the passage:

Or dost thou gravely walk the healthy wood, Considering what befits the wise and good.

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