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fpeak his affe5iions to he Jet upon things that are 

 above, and yet even fuch men have their intermitted 

 howres,and (as their company gives occafion) com- 

 mixtures of heavenly and earthly thoughts. 



You are therefore requefted to fancy him caft by 

 fortune into the company of fome yet unknown 

 Shepheards : and you have a liberty to beleeve 'twas 

 by this following accident. 



" He in a Sommers morning (about that howre 

 " when the great eye of Heaven first opens it felfe 

 " to give light to us mortals) walking a gentle pace 

 " towards a Brook (whofe Spring-head was not far 

 " diftant from his peacefull habitation) fitted with 

 " Angle^ Lines, and Flyes : Flyes proper for that 

 " feafon (being the fruitfull Month of May;) in- 

 " tending all diligence to beguile the timorous 

 " Trout, (with which that watry element 

 " abounded) obferv'd a more then common con- 

 " courfe of Shepheards, all bending their unwearied 

 " ileps towards a pleafant Meadow within his pre- 



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