brings along
The bravest virtues. And so many great
Illustrious spirits have convers'd with woe,
Have in her school been taught, as are enough
To consecrate distress, and make ambition
E'en wish the frown beyond the smile of fortune."

16. Cf. Virgil, _Aen._ i. 630: "Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere
disco."

18. _Folly's idle brood_. Cf. the opening lines of _Il Penseroso_:

"Hence, vain deluding Joys,
The brood of Folly, without father bred!"

20. Mitford quotes Oldham, _Ode_: "And know I have not yet the
leisure to be good."

22. _The summer friend_. Cf. Geo. Herbert, _Temple_: "like summer
friends, flies of estates and sunshine;" Quarles, _Sion's Elegies_,
xix.: "Ah, summer friendship with the summer ends;" Massinger, _Maid
of Honour_: "O summer friendship." See also Shakespeare, _T. of A._
iii. 6:

"_2d Lord_. The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your
lordship.

"_Timon_ [_aside_]. Nor more willingly leaves winter; such
summer-birds are men;"

and _T. and C._ iii. 3:

"For men, like butterflies,
Shew not their mealy wings but to the summer."

Mitford suggests that Gray had in mind Horace, _Od._ i. 35, 25:

"At vulgus infidum et meretrix retro
Perjura cedit; diffugiunt cadis
Cum faece siccatis amici
Ferre jugum pariter dolosi."

25. _In sable garb_. Cf. Milton, _Il Pens._ 16: "O'erlaid with black,
staid Wisdom's hue."

28. _With leaden eye_. Evidently suggested by Milton's description of
Melancholy, _Il Pens._ 43:

"Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes;
There, held in holy passion still,
Forget thyself to marble, till
With a sad leaden downward cast
Thou fix them on the earth as fast."

Mitford cites Sidney, _Astrophel and Stella_, song 7: "So leaden
eyes;" Dryden, _Cymon and Iphigenia_, 57: "And stupid eyes that ever
lov'd the ground;" Shakespeare, _Pericles_, i. 2: "The sad companion,
dull-eyed Melancholy;" and _L. L. L._ iv. 3: "In leaden
contemplation." Cf. also _The Bard_, 69, 70.

31. _To herself severe_. Cf. Carew:

"To servants kind, to friendship dear,
To nothing but herself severe;"

and Dryden: "Forgiving others, to himself severe;" and Waller: "The
Muses' friend, unto himself severe." Mitford quotes several other
similar passages.

32. _The sadly pleasing tear_. Rogers cites Dryden's "sadly pleasing
thought" (Virgil's _Aen._ x.); and Mitford compares Thomson's
"lenient, not unp