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"peacerull habitation) fitted with Angle, Lines, and Flyes : Flyes proper for 

 "that season (being the fruitfull Month of May;} intending all diligence to 

 "beguile the timorous Trout, (with which that watry element abounded) 

 " observ'd a more than common concourse of Shepheards, all bending their 

 "unwearied steps towards a pleasant Meadow within his present prospect, 

 " and had his eyes made more happy to behold the two fair Shepheardesses 

 " Amaryllis and Aminta strewing the foot-paths with Lillies, and Ladysmocks, 

 " so newly gathered by their fair hands, that they yet smelt more sweet then 

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

 "other Wood-nymphs) the fair and vertuous Partbenia: who after a courteous 

 "salutation and inquiry of his intended Journey, told him the neighbour- 

 " Shepheards of that part of Arcadia had dedicated that day to be kept holy to 

 " the honour of their great God Pan ; and, that they had designed her Mistresse 

 " of a Love-feast, which was to be kept that present day, in an Arbour built 

 " that morning, for that purpose ; she told him also, that Orpheus would bee 

 " there and bring his Harp, Pan his Pipe, and Titerus his Oaten-reed, to 

 " make musick at this feast ; shee therefore perswaded him, not to lose, but 

 " change that dayes pleasure ; before he could return an answer they were 

 "unawares entred into a living moving Lane, made of Shepheards and 

 " Pilgrimes ; who had that morning measured many miles to be eye-witnesses 

 " of that days pleasure ; this Lane led them into a large Arbour, whose wals 

 " were made of the yeelding Willow, and smooth Beech boughs : and covered 

 "over with Sycamore leaves, and Honysuccles." 



1 might now tell in what manner (after her first entrance into this 

 Arbour) Philoclea (Philodea the fair Arcadian Shepheardesse) crown'd her 

 Temples with a Garland, with what flowers, and by whom 'twas made ; I 

 might tell what guests (beside Astrea and Adonis} were at this feast ; and who 

 (besides Mercury 1 ] waited at the Table, this I might tell : but may not, 

 cannot expresse what musick the Gods and Wood-nymphs made within ; and 

 the Linits, Larks, and Nightingales about this Arbour, during this holy day : 

 which began in harmlesse mirth, and (for Bacchus and his gang were absent) 

 ended in love and peace, which Pan (for he onely can do it) continue in 

 Arcadia, and restore to the disturbed Island of Britannia, and grant that each 

 honest Shepheard 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 thankfulL 



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

 certain single-hearted Shepheards : with whom (as he return'd from his River- 

 recreations) he often rested himselfe, and whilest in the calm evening their 

 flocks fed about them, heard that discourse, which (with the Shepheards 

 names) is presented in these Eglogues. 



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