[Footnote 35: In the place of this couplet, there were four lines in the MS.: If thou return thy Sappho too shall stay, Not all the gods shall force me then away; Nor Love, nor Phoebus, then invoked shall be, For thou alone art all the gods to me. Another version ran thus: Wouldst thou return, oh more than Phoebus, fair No god like thee could ease thy Sappho's care.] [Footnote 36: "Liked" seems a very unsuitable expression in the present day. It was a word, however, among our early writers of greater force and significance: What I that loved, and you that _liked_, Shall we begin to wrangle? No, no, no; my heart is fixed, And cannot disentangle. _Old Ballad._--BOWLES.] [Footnote 37: In the MS.: Phaon--_my_ Phaon I almost had said-- Is fled, with Phaon your delights are fled. Cromwell wrote against the last line "recte, non pulchre," and Pope tried three variations of it before he cast them aside for the version in the text: Is gone, and with him all your pleasures fled. Is gone, and all that's pleasing with him fled. Is gone, and with him your delights are fled.] [Footnote 38: Of ver. 242 and v. 244, Pope says in the MS., "So at first as printed, but objected [against] as tautological. _Sic recte_ as [in the] margin, but carried afterwards as at first." "Sighs" was thought to be too nearly synonymous with "prayers," and Pope altered the lines by erasing the expressions "no sighs" and "my sighs," and affixing the epithet "tender" in both verses to numbers.] [Footnote 39: In the MS.: Oh, when shall kinder, more auspicious gales, Waft to these eyes thy long-expected sails. "Pleonasm," says a note on the manuscript. "_Kinder_, and _more auspicious_, too much."] [Footnote 40: This image is very inferior to the original, as it is more vague and general: the picture in the original is strikingly beautiful. The circumstances which make it so, are omitted by Pope: Ipse gubernabit residens in puppe Cupido, Ipse dabit tenera vela legetque manu.--BOWLES. The objection of Bowles would not have applied to the manuscript, where this admirable couplet, which Pope unwisely omitted, follows the lines in the text: Shall take the rudder in his tender hand, And steer thee safe to this forsaken land. There is a second, but inferior rendering: Shall sit presiding on the painted prore, And steer thy ship to this forsaken shore. Cromwell applied the words of Horace, "quæ desperat nitescere posse, relinquit," which seems intended to intimate that it was impossible to give a poetical translation of the original. Pope deferred to the mistaken criticism.] THE FABLE OF DRYOPE.[1] FROM THE NINTH BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.