Note 399 — RAPE OF THE LOCK.
Reading edition
Dryden, Æn. vii. 10:
the moon was bright And the sea trembled with her silver light.—Holt White.
Pope, says Wakefield, has put "tides" in the plural "merely to accommodate the rhyme." The tides are the ebb and the flow, and cannot be applied to only one of the two.