QUOTATIONS, NOTES,
and EXPLANATIONS.
Line 13.
Ah! then, how dear the Muse's favours cost,
If those paint sorrow best—who feel it most!
'The well-sung woes shall soothe my pensive ghost;
'He best can paint them who shall feel them most.'
Pope's Eloisa to Abelard, 366th line.
Line 3.
Anemonies, that spangled every grove.
Anemony Nemeroso. The wood Anemony.