[85] In commenting on mediaeval out-door poetry Vernon Lee says (“Euphorion,” p. 120): “Spring, spring, endless spring--for three long centuries throughout the world a dreary green monotony of spring.... Moreover this mediaeval spring is the spring neither of the shepherd, nor of the farmer, nor of any man to whom spring brings work and anxiety and hope of gain; it is a mere vague spring of gentlefolk, or at all events of well-to-do burgesses, taking their pleasure on the lawns of castle parts.” [86] Garth, “Dispensary,” iv, 309. [87] Addison, “Rosamond,” Act I, sc. 1. Cf. a longer description in the same poem beginning, “O the soft, delicious view” (Act II, sc. 3). [88] Broome, “On the Seat of War in Flanders.” [89] Shenstone, “The Progress of Taste,” iii, 7. [90] Lyttleton, “Eclogue IV.” [91] Congreve, “The Birth of the Muse.” [92] Parnell, “Health: An Eclogue.” [93] Prior, “Solomon,” iii, 158. [94] Pope, “Winter.” [95] Marriott, “Rinaldo and Armida.” [96] Sheridan, “New Simile for the Ladies.” (Dr. Johnson, “Life of Swift.”) [97] For an interesting study of the rose in literature from Ausonius to Waller see Symonds, “Essays,” “The Pathos of the Rose in Poetry,” p. 368. [98] Gay, “Fables,” i, 45. [99] Dryden, “Works,” XI, 13; Waller, “To the Queen;” Savage, “To Bessy.” [100] Tickell, “To Mr. Addison.” [101] Cowley, “The Shortness of Life.” [102] Somerville, “Field Sports.” [103] Wycherley, “To Mr. Pope.” [104] Dyer, “The Fleece.” [105] Dryden, “Works,” IV, 202; IX, 162. [106] _Ibid._, I, 214; V, 365; Congreve, “On His Taking of Namur;” st. 2. [107] See as illustrative of the bee similitudes: Waller, “Battle of the Summer Islands,” canto iii, l. 24; Cowley, “The Inconstant,” st. 6; Milton, “Paradise Lost,” i, 768; Dryden, “Works,” IX, 145, 172; II, 463; Hughes, “The Triumph of Peace,” l. 118; Prior, “Alma,” iii, 171; Pope, “Dunciad,” iv, 79; Pope, “Temple of Fame;” Gay, “Trivia,” ii, 555; Congreve, “Ovid’s Art of Love Imitated,” l. 200; A. Philips, “To James Craggs,” l. 151; Stepney, “To the Earl of Carlisle,” l. 26; Buckingham, “Essay on Poetry,” l. 255; Young, “Night Thoughts,” ii, 462; vi, 516; Akenside, “Odes,” i, I, st. 2; Dyer, “Fleece,” ii, 496; iii, 413; iv, 317; Somerville, “To Allan Ramsay,” l. 24; Watts, “Divine Songs,” xx, etc. [108] See as illustrative: Cowley, “Davideis,” iv, 728; “Isaiah, ch. 34,” st. 2; “Plagues of Egypt,” st. 9; Milton, “Paradise Lost,” i, 302; Dryden, “Works,” III, 354, 422; Prior, “The Turtle and the Sparrow,” l. 206; King, “Art of Love,” l. 1700; Pope, “Essay on Criticism,” ii, 109; “Temple of Fame,” l. 430; Young, “Night Thoughts,” v, 336; “The Last Day,” ii, 183; Blair, “The Grave,” l. 469, etc.