Note 115 — THE HIND AND THE PANTHER.
Reading edition
Our author recollected his own Philidel in "King Arthur:"
An airy shape, the tenderest of my kind, The last seduced and least deformed of hell; Half-white, and shuffled in the crowd I fell, Desirous to repent and loath to sin, Awkward in mischief, piteous of mankind; My name is Philidel, my lot in air, Where, next beneath the moon, and nearest heaven, I soar, I have a glimpse to be received. Vol. VIII. p. 135.