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Helene M. Hooker, "Dryden's Georgics and English Predecessors," HLQ, 4 (1946), 273-310 and Leslie Proudfoot, Dryden's "Aeneid" and Its Seventeenth Century Predecessors (1960).

For a position contrary to my own, see J. McG. Bottkol's review of Mrs. Hooker's article, in PQ, 26 (1947), 118.

The Dryden-Lauderdale connection necessitates separate treatment.

W. L.'s rhyme scheme is a//a, hence the two slash lines.

I give line numbers only from Dryden's version; the abbreviations for the various translations are easily understandable by reference to the second paragraph.

Biddle has the Trees/Bees rhyme but Dryden had his eye on 1684.

02 has villages ascends/ . . . shade extends.

1684a is Tate's translation of the second Eclogue; 1684b, Creech's.

For this last 1684a has Nor is my face so mean.

1684 has "vie."

B has downy Quinces.

John Stafford and Knightly Chetwood translated this Eclogue, but the latter's version (1684b) was only a part alone, running to 83 lines.

Edited by G.B. Hill (1905), 3, 166 and n. 4.