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Pastorals

After the Simple Manner of Theocritus. By Mr. Purney

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The Swain so soft (for soft be Swains)
Who pipes so pretty on the Plains;
I need'nt tell ye who he is,
The Lasses know him by his Kiss.
At Eve did come, with Youngling Mey.
A-to the Grove where Lallet lay.