The pleasaunt floures for wo faded eche one, When they perceyued thisshepheard dead and gone, The okes, elmes, and euery sorte of dere Shronke vnder shadowes, abating all their chere.
Though for a season this shepheard bode a blast, The greatest winde yet slaketh at the last, And at conclusion he and his flocke certayne Eche true to other did quietly remayne.
And as in Croidon I heard the Collier preache" "Such maner riches the Collier tell thee can" "As the riche Shepheard that woned in Mortlake.
The twelfth eclogue opens thus: The gentle shepheard sat beside a springe All in the shadow of a bushye brere, That Colin height, which well could pype and singe, For hee of Tityrus his songs did lere.
To the learned Shepheard (Hobinoll) Fayre Thamis streame, that from Ludds stately towne (R.
The now confounded shepheard cries: Ye all-confounding destines!
Indeede a Sheepe doth very often stray, And if the Shepheard be awhile away Sp.
You conclude that my Master is a Shepheard then, and I Sheepe?
This battell fares like to the mornings Warre, When dying clouds contend, with growing light, What time the Shepheard blowing of his nailes, Can neither call it perfect day, nor night.
First let me tell you whom you haue condemn'd; Not me, begotten of a Shepheard Swaine, But issued from the Progeny of Kings.
The Sheepe for fodder follow the Shepheard, the Shepheard for foode followes not the Sheepe: thou for wages followest thy Master, thy Master for wages followes not thee: therefore thou art a Sheepe Sp.
Now he thanks the old Shepheard (which stands by, like a Weather-bitten Conduit, of many Kings Reignes.
Mistresse and Master, you haue oft enquired After the Shepheard that complain'd of loue, Who you saw sitting by me on the Turph, Praising the proud disdainfull Shepherdesse That was his Mistresse Cel.
With that she gan to vaile her head, Her cheeks were like the roses red, But not a word she sayd: With that the shepheard gan to frowne, He threw his pretie pypes adowne, 95 And on the ground him layd.
My maister is neither damnde nor dead, and yet is in the case of both your maisters, like a woodden shepheard and a sheepish woodman; for he is lost in seeking of a lost sheepe and spent in hunting a Doe that hee would faine strike.
Not I but thou; for though thou iet'st in greene, As fresh as meadow in a morne of May, And scorn'st theshepheard for he goes in gray.
But every plough-man and rude shepheardswain Doth still reply unto my greater paine?
I maruell that a rusticke shepheard dare With woodmen then audaciously compare.
Then the young Phrygian shepheard Paris with a willing mind delivered the golden Apple to Venus, which was the victory of beauty.
In the meane season, while the Parents of the boy did lament and weepe for the death of their sonne, the shepheard (according to his promise) came with his instruments and tooles to geld me.
God commaundes thee to forsake the world: yf thou art a shepheard thou dost soe, thou withdrawest thyselfe from the world.
Here I should note, a yoong whelpe that viewed their walke, infourmed the shepheard of what hapned.
It is a prettie thing As sweete unto a shepheard as a king.
But if you do refuse to marrie me, You'l giue your selfe to this most faithfull Shepheard Phe.
I do remember in this shepheard boy, Some liuely touches of my daughters fauour Orl.
Alas poore Shepheard searching of they would, I haue by hard aduenture found mine owne Clo.
The shepheard wept, and she was woe, and both doe silence keepe.
Well wot I, sooth they say, that say more quiet nights and daies The shepheard sleeps and wakes, than he whose cattel he doth graize.
And thereon shall be graven Her epitaph so faire, "Here lies the loveliest maiden, That e'er gave shepheard care.
Then home rode the abbot of comfort so cold, 45 And he mett his shepheard a going to fold: How now, my lord abbot, you are welcome home; What newes do you bring us from good king John?
Dorastus comes to her disguised as a shepherd, and as she does not recognize him "she began halfe to forget Dorastus and to favor this prety shepheard whom she thought shee might both love and obtaine.
Then looking about they might perceive where an old shepheard sat, and with him a yong swaine, under a covert most pleasantlie scituated.
Where Sireno a shepheard pulling out a little of his mistresse Diana's haire, wrapt about in greene silke, who now had utterly forsaken him, to the haire hee thus bewayled himselfe.
The Shepheard seekes the Sheepe, and not the Sheepe the Shepheard; but I seeke my Master, and my Master seekes not me: therefore I am no Sheepe Pro.
Who would not then a simpleshepheard bee, Rather than be a mightie monarch made?
A shepheard loves no ill, but onely thee; He hath no care, but onely by thy causing: Why doost thou shoot thy cruell shafts at mee?
Thus is the Shepheard beaten from thy side, And Wolues are gnarling, who shall gnaw thee first.
O muse not shepheardthat they stay, When they her heauenly voice do heare.
With that the shepheard whoop'd for ioy, Quoth he, ther's neuer shepheards boy, that euer was so blist.
With that the shepheard gan to frowne, He threw his pretie pypes adowne, and on the ground him layd.
Shepheard spent his wandring yeeres, And in these shades (deer Nimphe) he oft hath been, And heere to thee he sacrifiz'd his teares.
So maist thou thriue, among the learned prease, As thou young Shepheard art belou'd of mee!
Yea but (sayth he) their shepheard may, Jf pyping thus he pine away, in loue of Dowsabell.
My Coate sayth he, nor yet my foulde, 100 Shall neither sheepe nor shepheard hould, except thou fauour me.
This shepheard ware a sheepe gray cloke, Which was of the finest loke, that could be cut with sheere, His mittens were of Bauzens skinne, His cockers were of Cordiwin his hood of Meniueere.
I saw a shepheard that doth keepe In yonder field of Lillies, Was making (as he fed his sheepe) A wreathe of Daffadillies.
And all this may be true, for before there was a shepheard keeper of his owne, or of some other bodies flocke, there was none owner in the world, quick cattel being the first property of any forreine possession.
Well may the shepheard lasses now lament; For doubble losse by her hath on them light, To loose both her and bounties ornament.
Thus is this Ape become a shepheard swaine, And the false Foxe his dog: God give them paine!
By whom the flock is rightly fed and taught: He is the shcpheard, and the priest is hee; We but his shepheard swaines ordain'd to bee.
Here is a passage in another strain, which culminates in a touch of haunting melody that Spenser himself might have envied: I marvell that a rusticke shepheard dare With woodmen thus audaciously compare?
Entituled: To the right honorable, and renowmed Shepheardof Albions Arcadia: Robert Earle of Essex and Ewe, for his welcome into England from Portugall.
The while my flocke did feede thereby; The while the shepheard selfe did spill.
Nought tooke I with me, but mine oaten quill: Small needments else need shepheard to prepare.
Then hartlesse quite, and full of inward feare, That shepheard I besought to me to tell, Under what skie, or in what world we were, In which I saw no living people dwell.
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