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Astoral 1. Line 6. There first the Youth of Heavenly Birth I view'd.Virgil means Octavius Cæsar: Heir to Julius: who per­haps had not arriv'd to his Twentieth Year, when Virgil saw him first. Vide his Life. Of Heavenly Birth or Heavenly Blood; because the Julian Family was derived from Julus, Son to Æneas, and Grand-Son to Venus.

Pastoral 2d. Line 65.The Short Narcissus, That is, of short con­tinuance.

Pastoral 3d. Line 95.For him, the God of Shepherds and their Sheep, Phœbus, not Pan, is here call'd the God of Shepherds: The Poet alludes to the same Story, which he touches in the beginning of the Second Georgic, where he calls Phœbus the Amphrysian Shepherd, because he fed