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THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: TO THE READER (2) by WILLIAM BASSE

First Line: A SHEPHEARDS YOUTH DWELT ON THE PLAINES
Last Line: HE TOOKE HIS PIPE AND SATE HIM DOWNE AND VERS'D.
Subject(s): YOUTH;
A SHEPHEARDS youth dwelt on the plaines,
That passt the common sort of Swaines,
By how much had himselfe before
Beene nursed up in @3Colins@1 lore;
Who, while his flocke, ybent to stray,
Glad of the Sunne-shine of the day,
Wanderd the field, and were abroade dispers'd,
He tooke his Pipe and sate him downe and vers'd.



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