Note 26 — WINTER:[1]
Reading edition
Oldham's translation of Moschus:
Fair Galatea too laments thy death, Laments the ceasing of thy tuneful breath.
Sedley's Elegy:
Here sportive zephyrs cease their selfish play Despairing now to fetch perfumes away.—Wakefield.
The couplet in the text is the third passage in Pope's Pastorals for which Ruffhead claims the merit of originality. The quotations of Wakefield show that the thought and the language are alike borrowed, and the only novelty is the bull, pointed out by Johnson, of making the zephyrs lament in silence.