Note 30.Page 134.
"This, I think, is from the Secreta Secretorum. Aristotle, for two reasons, was a popular character in the dark ages. He was the father of their philosophy; and had been the preceptor of Alexander the Great, one of the principal heroes of romance. Nor was Aristotle himself without his romantic history; in which he falls in love with a queen of Greece, who quickly confutes his subtlest syllogisms." Warton.
Note 31.Page 142.
This fable of the partridge is popular; but it seems more applicable to the lapwing.
Note 32.Page 142.
Here is a remarkable coincidence or plagiarism. Pope has given a complete and literal version of the passage in this moral.
"Ecce quomodo mundus suis servitoribus reddit mercedem."
"See how the world its veterans rewards!"
