Note 369 — RAPE OF THE LOCK.
Reading edition
This is formed from Virgil, Geor. iv. 6. Sedley's version of the passage imitated:
The subject's humble, but not so the praise, If any muse assists the poet's lays.
Dryden's Translation:
Slight is the subject, but the praise not small If heav'n assist, and Phœbus hear my call.—Wakefield.