THE ARGUMENT.
Two Swains, who are exercised in Birding, while they are watching their Nets amuse themselves with repeating each a Song.—The first recites a Kind of Magical Incantation, supposed to have been used by a slighted Shepherdess to regain her absent Lover, who had forsaken her.—His Companion entertains him with a Sort of condoling Sonnet that had been made on the unhappy Passion and Despair of an unfortunate Friend. This Eclogue, it will be easily observed, consists of different Characters from the Rest, and was designedly introduced, consistent with the Plan, as a Trial how a Subject of this new and unattempted Nature might be intermixed with the Pastoral Kind.
