A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes

Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

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He ceas'd his homely rhyme.
When Colin Clout, Eliza's shepherd swain,
The blithest lad that ever pip'd on plain,
Came with his reed soft-warbling on the way,
And thrice he bow'd his head with motion mild,
And thus his gliding numbers 'gan essay.

i. e. Spenser, which name he gives himself throughout his works.

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