[39] 'Stuart:' Queen Anne.
[40] 'Savage laws:' the forest-laws.
[41] 'The fields are ravish'd:' alluding to the destruction made
in the New Forest, and the tyrannies exercised there by William I.
[42] 'Himself denied a grave:' the place of his interment at
Caen in Normandy was claimed by a gentleman as his inheritance, the
moment his servants were going to put him in his tomb: so that they were
obliged to compound with the owner before they could perform the king's
obsequies.
[43] 'Second hope:' Richard, second son of William the
Conqueror.
[44] 'Queen:' Anne.
[45] 'Still bears the name:' the river Loddon.
[46] 'Trumbull:' see Pastorals.
[47] 'Cooper's Hill:' celebrated by Denham.
[48] 'Flowed from Cowley's tongue:' Mr Cowley died at Chertsey,
on the borders of the forest, and was from thence conveyed to
Westminster.
[49] 'Noble Surrey:' Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, one of the
first refiners of English poetry; who flourished in the time of Henry
VIII.
[50] 'Edward's acts:' Edward III., born here.
[51] 'Henry mourn:' Henry VI.
[52] 'Once-fear'd Edward sleeps:' Edward IV.
[53] 'Augusta:' old name for London.
[54] 'And temples rise:' the fifty new churches.
[55] The author of 'Successio,' Elkanah Settle, appears to have
been as much hated by Pope as he had been by Dryden. He figures
prominently in 'The Dunciad.
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