Note 7 — WINTER:[1]
Reading edition
Garth's Dispensary, Canto iv.:
As tuneful Congreve tries his rural strains, Pan quits the woods, the list'ning fauns the plains.
Dryden's Virgil, Ecl. vi. 100:
And called the mountain ashes to the plain.
Among the poems of Congreve is one entitled "The Mourning Muse of Alexis, a Pastoral lamenting the death of Queen Mary." This was the "sweet Alexis strain" to which Pope referred, and which the Thames "bade his willows learn."