That is the highest head (in all mens sights) Of my old father Mole, whom Shepheards quill Renowmed hath with hymnes fit for a rurall skill.
I taught the Shepheards on the Downes, Of thee to frame their Layes: T'was I that fill'd the neighbouring Townes, With Ditties of thy praise.
The Cosswold Shepheards as their flockes they keepe, To put off lazie drowsinesse and sleepe, 30 Shall sit to tell, and heare thy Story tould, That night shall come ere they their flocks can fould.
Thy sheepe quoth she cannot be leane, That haue a iolly shepheards swayne, 80 the which can pipe so well.
I gentle shepheard, now with ioy Thou all my flockes dost fill, That's she alone kind shepheards boy, Let vs to Daffadill.
And all the shepheards that were nie, From toppe of euery hill, Vnto the vallies lowe did crie, There goes sweet Daffadill.
With that the shepheard whoop'd for ioy, Quoth he, ther's neuer shepheards boy, that euer was so blist.
You told me, you salute not at the Court, but you kisse your hands; that courtesie would be vncleanlie if Courtiers were shepheards Clo.
Truely Shepheard, in respect of it selfe, it is a good life; but in respect that it is a shepheards life, it is naught.
Dolphin, I am by birth a Shepheards Daughter, My wit vntrayn'd in any kind of Art: Heauen and our Lady gracious hath it pleas'd To shine on my contemptible estate.
So 'tis said (Sir:) about his Sonne, that should haue marryed a Shepheards Daughter Aut.
Almost Sir: Heauen restore me: would I were A Neat-heards Daughter, and my Leonatus Our Neighbour-Shepheards Sonne.
Oh, that's the case of the Shepheards Sonne: hang him, hee'le be made an example Clow.
Well ywis was it with shepheards thoe: Nought having, nought feared they to forgoe; For Pan himselfe was their inheritaunce, And little them served for their mayntenaunce.
To Bethlem did they go, The shepheards three; To Bethlem did they goe, To see where it were so or no.
Mad with spight He markt how the poore shepheards ran to pay Their simple tribute to the Babe, Whose birth Was the great businesse both of Heav'n and Earth.
By these and like lies, he provoked the shepheards earnestly against me, which grieved mee (God wot) full sore that said nothing.
By and by a Weasel was scene that drew into the house a dead Serpent, and out of the mouth of a Shepheards dog leaped a live frog, and immediately after one brought word that a Ram had strangled the same dog at one bit.
This answere made our shepheards greatly to feare, that they thought of nothing else, but to enquire what Country they were in: Howbeit they saw no manner of person of whom they might demand.
Then one of the shepheards said: Why doe we not make sacrifice of this common adulterous Asse?
This poem had received the fewest corrections, and therefore is chiefly given from the ancient copy, where it is thus introduced by one of his Shepherds: "Listen to mee, my lovely shepheards joye.
Or where is he that sung the lovely layes Of simple shepheards in their countrey-farmes?
How happie were a harmles shepheards life, If he had never knowen what love did meane; But now fond Love in every place is rife, Staining the purest soule with spots uncleane, Making thicke purses thin, fat bodies leane.
Among the less known writings of Francis Quarles, author of the once famous Emblems, is a volume, now become very scarce, entitled The Shepheards Oracles, delivered in certain Eglogues.
Browne himself is alluded to punningly in The Shepheards Oracles, where Philorthus, at sight of Anarchus approaching, asks whether he is "in a Browne study.
And when she list advance her heavenly voyce, Both Nymphes and Muses nigh she made astownd, And flocks and shepheards caused to rejoyce.
How happie was I when I saw her leade The Shepheards daughters dauncing in a rownd!
The very unusual word "underfong" which Spenser uses in these verses, and the gloss which he appends to the verses of The Shepheards Calendar for June, were not lost upon Shakespeare.
Make knowne your state, and looke what slender grace A Shepheards poore abilitee may yeeld You shall be sure of ere I leaue the feeld.
And I of shepheards such a lustie crew As neuer Forrester the like yet knew, Who for their persons and their neate aray Shal be as fresh as is the moneth of May.
I thought that shepheards had bene mannerlesse, But wood-men are the ruder groomes I guesse.
So did Apollo walke with shepheards crooke, And many Kings their sceptres haue forsooke To lead the quiet life weshepheards tooke (?
Instruct thy singing in thy forrest waies, Shepheards know how to chant their roundelaies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shepheards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
