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In Nine Piscatory Eclogues. A New Attempt To introduce a more pleasing Variety and Mixture of Subjects and Characters into Pastoral. On the Plan of its primitive Rules and Manners. Suited to the Entertainment of Retirement, and the Lovers of Nature in rural Scenes. With an Essay in Defence of this Undertaking. By Moses Browne. The Third Edition, Corrected, and very much improved

Browne, Moses (1704-1787)

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THE DEDICATION.

PISCATORY ECLOGUES.

ECLOGUE I. ANGLING SEASONS:

II.

ECLOGUE II. NIGHT-FISHING:

III.

ECLOGUE III. THE RIVER ENEMIES.

IV.

ECLOGUE IV. THE SEA SWAINS.

ECLOGUE V. RENOCK's DESPAIR.

VI.

ECLOGUE VI. THE ANGLERS SONGS.

VII.

ECLOGUE VII. THE STRIFE.

VIII.

ECLOGUE VIII. THE FOWLERS.

IX.

ECLOGUE IX. THE COMPLAINTS:

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THE ARGUMENT.

A Company of Fishers, forced by bad Weather, take Harbour up a shady Creek, where they divert and refresh themselves. An aged Swain (at their Request) entertains them with a Song in Praise of their humble, happy Profession, in which, by a designed Variety, he passes to the different wonderful Properties of some Rivers, and of several curious, remarkable Sea-Fish; and, by Occasion suitable to his Subject, introduces the Episodes of Arion and Glaucus—but is interrupted by the return of a Calm, which invites them back to their Employments.