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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]