Note 19 — WINTER:[1]
Reading edition
Variation:
For her the flocks the dewy herbs disdain, Nor hungry heifers graze the tender plain.—Pope.
Dryden's Virg. Ecl. v. 38:
The thirsty cattle of themselves abstained From water, and their grassy fare disdained.
Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar, November, ver. 123, where
The feeble flocks in field refuse their former food,
because Dido is dead.