PAPLET: OR, Love and Innocence
PASTORAL the I.
ARGUMENT.
Cubbin, the Writer so call'd, was
acquainted with Paplet and Soflin.
All Young was Paplet and ignorant of
Love; Soflin more experienc'd, but
equally tender and innocent. The first
eager to be let into the Nature and
Manner of Lovers and the other Sex; The other of
a Temper particularly free and inclining. These, as
Cubbin was inform'd, were at Evening gone out to
a Bush of a sweet and pleasant Scituation, to tattle
of Love, and of Collikin Soflin's Lover. In
pain is Cubbin, least the gentle Paplet should fall
in Love with him too, and goes forth to skulk near
the Bush to hear if it indeed was so. There does the
latter part of their Discourse, which alone he hears,
confirm the hear-say. When the gloom of Night
draws on, they go to bath and cool'em in Eden Brook.
There is Paplet solitary and musing; and thence, ignorant
of her Ail, returns alone, by Moonshine to the
Bush: For there Collikin, that Morn, had loll'd
with his Love. Cubbin soon discovers her uneasiness;
forsakes his Covert to attempt her relief; But
endeavouring to divert her thoughts from Collikin,
is chid from her sight. So being averse to her Cure,
she falls intirely in Love.
The time, in this
Piece, is from
Noon to
Night;
The Season
Summer; and the Scene on the
Banks of the Brook
Eden; which runs out of
the
Medway, some Miles West of
Tunbridge in
Kent.
ΦΕΙΔΕΟ τας θηρας, τοδε μηδ'ες τωρνεον ερχευ.
Bion. 2.
