Note 461 — RAPE OF THE LOCK. (continued 2)
Reading edition
In this description our poet seems to have had before him the Cave of Envy in Ovid, Met. ii. 760:
Protinus Invidiæ nigro squallentia tabo Tecta petit. Domus est imis in vallibus antri Abdita, sole carens, non ulli pervia vento.
Shut from the winds and from the wholesome skies, In a deep vale the gloomy dungeon lies; Dismal and cold, where not a beam of light Invades the winter, or disturbs the night. Addison's Trans.— Wakefield.