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Pastorals

After the Simple Manner of Theocritus. By Mr. Purney
Purney, Thomas (1695-ca. 1727)

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PAPLET: OR, Love and Innocence
  
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LALLET OR The Tender Shepherdess
  
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But ill I say how sweet the Lasses sate,
Oh that you'd seen 'em, I'd give any what!
This sooth I say (for sooth the Shepherds say)
Soft simpering thus said the Youngling Mey.
The meaning of the Mey no whit I ween.
I'm sure, when near I came, just thus she sain.
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