My Banks they are

- farmish. with bees Not a pine in my coppice is seen Whose murmer invites one to sleep. But with circles of Woodbine his bound are shaded to the trees NotaLinden's more beautiful green white over with But a Jessamin &

My Waters are shaded

And

my

hills

are

Sheep

I seldom, have met with a Loss

th

10.

Jessamine thing it around

Dear Regions of Silence & shade

Such health do my Pastures bestow Soft scenes of contentent. of ease
And where they are coverd woh moss Where I 2. have pleasingly stray'd
Ev'n there do the Bilberries grow Ifought in her absence 2. please
Wathinks she mt. like to retire But where does my Phyllida stray
To the Grove I have labour, to rear And where are her by her bow'rs
For what wer I heard her admire Are the Groves. If the Valleys
I hasred & planted it there.

2

as gay

And the Shepherds as gentle as ours

O how sudden the sweetbriar ftroue The groves may perhaps be as

And the Myrtle to rinder it gay

fair

And the look of the valleys as fine

The Willow - So fatal to love - The Shepherds in candour compars

The Willow alone was away.

Nere I sure

y. Arabia 2. Foast A flow'r or a shrub to her mind "I could fail to the frusrish coaft The favourite blossom to find

With speed &: thy Lover de part

e.

But their Love is not equal to

mine.

The Nightingales flock to my groves But her Words such a plenfure on the Roses that 'blow"

gaze on

*

So Sweetly they warble their loves

But an if my dear Phyllis she drign
-Phyllis she drign

εν

Let her speak what ever she way
Methinks I could love her y

Oy Sound it is yet in my ear

My pipe & my hautboy adian
Solong

With their tender complam". to vie
their accents in vain So

mr. var

vary

La And Pocks affirm they w? Die

a

as her accents I hear

I can find little music in you.

his

dear No longer can Streption be
Why pleasures y - once were,
Ev's, y Streams by hitte y. I lov'd

I have found out a Gift for my I have found wherey Wood-pigions breed - Jbut then, if I rob them I fiar

W

The m't say 'twas a barbarous deed Look but ill in & road to

For she s?he Cinever be tone.

Sho ĉi rob a poor bird of its

If then I must bear y dull plain young Come, Shepherds, & tell & her way of 52. Lay down

And I lov?. her the more when I knew

my

life fory jwa

Phyllida

Such tendernejs flow from her tongue. That will speak in.

praisa

1 lov? Ser the more, when she told. When he sings, may the Nymphoo

How that pity was due to a Dove
That it ever attended the bold

come flecking & liften the white Nay on him let not Phyllida troi.

And the call'd it the filter of Love. But I cannot allow her to smil

* Alluding Fable that the Nightingale

to the Exftera.

is enamored of the Rose.

With her charms she engages y brave will, her Wit she enamours the free. with her modesty pleases the grave Fre is every way pleasing to me.

Away to the garden he flies And pillages every sweet And cropping the several dyes #2 Tays them at Phyllis's facet 42

Phyllis, he whispers,

The Laplander pining with cart fair As he glides cer hu kingdom of Snow more sweet than the Orange in flow

he catch but a glimpse of my fair Can the sink in the Morning compa.. perceive his cold. boform to glow or the tuberose after a fhow'r

3. fee when
En my

charmer goes by Isteal from the flowers that blow Some Hermit peep out of his cell to paint forth the Charms I approve How he thinks of his youth wh a high For what cats a "low fondly he wishes her well so dear so delightful

w.a

To him let her friendly appear

e

Vit her praise y retreat he has thafe

Hossom brotow

as

love

mystical way

I sing in a
retreat he has chase a shepherd & one of the throng
Bout Phyllis is pleased wo way lay
Song.

The fount so delight fully dear'
And the Moss that affords him repose Go, Posts, & envy. my

But when Paridel ties in y dance.
Some favour w. Phyller to find

I then with a trivial glance.

-his might ruin the

peace

of.

mind

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For Paridel artfully tells
2 smooth & fantastical tale
how her where in the excell
the vale

The Lilly that

graces

all juvenile Porms in The Gentleman's Magazine

On the Motion

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On Riddles, signed 55. by Mr Therstone. (for Bet. 1740.)

Three Copies in Uridication of

Riddles.

by Mr Somerville. 2? by the Sherstons. 3. by M: 1: Jago. (Feb. 8741.)

NB. The 1st of these is pro= =bably that jign. At Lover of Perspicuity. The second unsign. The 3. is probably

that with is 3. in order.

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One Copy by Mr Binnal in

vindication of Shenstone
in March 1741 (probably
Signed G.)

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