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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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A gentle Swain yfed in Kentish Mead,
The gentlest Swain that ever Flock did feed.
Soft he beside the Stream of Eden lay,
And graz'd abie the Banks of fair Medway.
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Up with the Morn, as lith as Lark, he'd rise;
And Cubbin he, so said him Shepherd Boys.
 

a, and y (pronounc'd as e) before Words, and en, et and ie, after, are for softness of sound.

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