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I(Paph7iis and Chloe) am that old Philetas, who have often LONGUS 

 sung to these Nymphs ; and often pip't to yonder Pan ; and ^r^\f^ ^^^\ 

 have led many great herds, by the art of musick alone; and I 

 come to shew you what I have seen, and to tell you what I 

 have heard. I have a Garden which my own hands and labour 

 planted ; and ever since by my old age I gave over fields and 

 herds to dresse and trim it, has been my care and entertain- 

 ment; what flowers or fruits the season of the year teems, 

 there they are at every season. In the Spring there are Roses, 

 and Lihes, the Hyacinths, and both the forms of Violets. 

 In the Summer, Poppies, Pears, and all sorts of Apples. And 

 now in the Autumne, Vines and Fig trees, Pomegranats, Oranges, 

 Limons, and the green myrtles. Into this Garden, flocks of 

 birds come every morning; some to feed, some to sing. For 

 it is thick, spacious, and shady; and watered all by three 

 fountains; and if you took the wall away, you would think 

 you saw a Wood. As I went in there yesterday about noon, 

 a boy appear'd in the Pomgranate and Myrtle grove, with 

 myrtles and Pomgranats in his hand ; white as milk, and shining 

 with the glance of fire ; clean and bright, as if he had newly 

 washt himself in all the three transparent Fountains. Naked 

 he was, alone he was ; he play'd and wanton'd it about, and 

 cuU'd and pull'd, as if it had been his own garden. — Daphnis 

 and Chloe. A most Sweet and Pleasant Pastorall Romance fo?- 

 Yoimg Ladies, by Geo. Thornley, Gefit, 1657. 



AFTER we had dispatcht his funerall rites, I ranne straightway ACHILLES 

 to Leucippe, who was then in our garden. There was J^'^^^^ 



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a grove of a most pleasant aspect, environed with a row 01 



trees thinly set, and all of one height; whose foure sides, 

 for there were so many in all, were covered with a shelter, which 

 stood on foure pillars, the inner part was planted with all sorts of 

 trees, whose boughes flourisht, and mutually embrac'd each 

 other, growing so thicke, that their leaves and fruit were pro- 

 miscuously mingled ; upon the bigger trees grew ivie, some of 



