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more than common concourse of Shepherds, all bending their unwearied 

 steps towards a pleasant meadow within his present prospect, and had hi3 

 eyes made more happy to behold the two lair Shejiherdesses, Amaryllis 

 and Aminta, strewing the footpaths with lilies and ladysmocks, so newly 

 gathered by their fair hands, that they yet smelt more sweet than the 

 morning, and immediately met (attended with Clora, Clorinda, and many 

 other wood-nymphs) the fair and virtuous Parthenia; who, after a courte- 

 ous salutation and inquiry of his intended journey, told him the neighbor- 

 ing Shepherds of that part of Arcadia had dedicated that day to be kept 

 holy to the honour of their god Pan ; and that they had designed her mis- 

 tress of a love-feast, which was to be kept that present day in an arbor 

 built that morning for that purpose. She told him also that Orpheus would 

 be there and bring his harp, Pan his pipe, and Tityrus his oaten reed, to 

 make music at this feast ; she therefore persuaded him, not to lose, but 

 change that day's pleasure ; before he could return an answer, they were 

 unawares entered into a living moving lane,, made of Shepherds and Pil- 

 grims, who had that morning measured many miles to be the eye-witnesses 

 of that day's pleasure. This lane led them into a large arbor, whose walls 

 were made of the yielding willow and smooth beech boughs, and covered 

 over with sycamore leaves and honeysuckles. I might now tell in what 

 manner (after her first entrance into this arbor) Philoclea (Philoclea, a fair 

 Arcadian Shepherdess) crowned her temples with a garland, with what 

 flowers, and by whom it was made ; I might tell what guests (besides As- 

 trea and Adonis) were at this feast ; and who (besides Mercury) waited at 

 tlie table, this I might tell ; but may not, cannot express what music the 

 Gods and Wood-Nymphs made within ; and the linnets, larks, and night- 

 ingales about this arbor during this holy day ; which began in harmless 

 mirth, and (for Bacchus and his gang were absent) ended in love and peace, 

 which Pan (for he only can do it) continue in Arcadia and restore to the 

 disturbed Island of Britannia, and grant that each honest Shepherd may 

 again sit under his own vine and fig-tree, and feed his own flock, and with 

 love enjoy the fruits of peace^and be more thankful. 



" Reader, at this time and place, the author contracted a friendship with 

 certain single-hearted Shepherds, with whom (as he returned from his 

 river recreations) he often rested himself; and whilst, in the calm even- 

 ing, their flocks fed about them, heard their discourse, which (with the 

 Shepherds' names) is presented in these Eclogues." 



" A friend of the Authors wished me to tell thee so ; this 23d of Novem- 

 ber, 1645. "Jo. Marriot." 



Reliqui^ Wottonian.e, with the Life of Sir Henry Wotton, 

 12mo., 1651, 1654, 1672, 1685. 



Edward Sparkes. Scintillula Altaris ; or, a Pious Reflection 

 on Primitive Devotion, as to the Feasts and Fasts of the Christian 

 Church, 1652. 

 Commendatory Verses, which are very inferior to his other compositions 



of the same kind ; the following lines only deserving to be quoted : 



" Ejich Saints day 

 Stands as a land-mark in an erring age, 

 To guide frail niDrtals in their pilgrimage 

 To the Celestial Canaan ; and each fast 

 Is both the soul's direction and repast." 



The Complete Angler, 1663. 

 (See List of Angling Books.) 



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