1747
Harvest; or the Bashful Shepherd. A Pastoral. In the
Cumberland
Dialect.
[in]
A Miscellany of Poems. By the late Reverend Josiah Relph of
Sebergham, Cumberland. Glasgow. Printed by Robert Foulis for Mr.
Thomlinson in Wigton. MDCCXLVII.
pp. 1-6. h.c.
Mock-eclogue.
A love-complaint by Robin, who has been too shy to tell Betty of his
love for her, but now resolves to sell his flute, buy a "book of
compliments"
and write to her.
Farewell my flute then yet or Carlile fair;
When to the stationers I'll stright repair,
And bauldly for thur compliments enquear;
Care I a fardin, let the prentice jeer.
That duine — a handsome letter I'll indite,
Handsome as ever country lad did write;
A letter 'at sall tell her aw' I feel,
And aw my wants without a blush reveal. [p.6]
