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In Nine Piscatory Eclogues. A New Attempt To introduce a more pleasing Variety and Mixture of Subjects and Characters into Pastoral. On the Plan of its primitive Rules and Manners. Suited to the Entertainment of Retirement, and the Lovers of Nature in rural Scenes. With an Essay in Defence of this Undertaking. By Moses Browne. The Third Edition, Corrected, and very much improved

Browne, Moses (1704-1787)

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THE DEDICATION.

PISCATORY ECLOGUES.

ECLOGUE I. ANGLING SEASONS:

II.

ECLOGUE II. NIGHT-FISHING:

III.

ECLOGUE III. THE RIVER ENEMIES.

IV.

ECLOGUE IV. THE SEA SWAINS.

ECLOGUE V. RENOCK's DESPAIR.

VI.

ECLOGUE VI. THE ANGLERS SONGS.

VII.

ECLOGUE VII. THE STRIFE.

VIII.

ECLOGUE VIII. THE FOWLERS.

IX.

ECLOGUE IX. THE COMPLAINTS:

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THE ARGUMENT.

This Eclogue is of private Concern, and contains an amorous Soliloquy of a slighted Swain, the same who is introduced with a Complaint of his unsuccessful Passion in the Second Eclogue (as Spenser more than once introduces his unhappy Colin with a well-known personal Meaning).—The Poet here, in respect to the ancient Birth-Place of his Family, (whose Name in the Female Line he has made his Lover personate) has singled out upon this Occasion a particular Scene of Action.