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  • _Of the Shepheards or pastorall Poesie called Eglogue, and to what purpose it was first inuented and vsed.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Some be of opinion, and the chiefe of those who haue written in this Art among the Latines, that the pastorall Poesie which we commonly call by the name of _Eglogue_ and _Bucolick_, a tearme brought in by the Sicilian

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Of the shepheards or pastorall poesie called Egologue, and to what purpose it was first inuented and deuised.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • When I had well considered of this so fruitfull and so commodious a place for cattel and beasts to be fedde in and kept, (for it looked as though it would desire a shepheardes company and a pastorall song) I mused what should be the occasion, that so commodious a place should lye vninhabited.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • I make you present of this simple pastorall, unworthie of your higher conceipt for the meanesse of the stile, but agreeing with the truth in circumstance and matter.

    A Biography of Edmund Spenser John W. Hales 1875

  • Poet. 161, which bears the following title: "Poems, songs, and a pastorall, by the Rt honble the Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley."

    Three Hundred Years Hence 1836

  • Poet. 161, which bears the following title: "Poems, songs, and a pastorall, by the Rt honble the Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley."

    The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley Jane Cheyne 1644

  • THAT you may see that I am not alwaies ydle as yee thinke, though not greatly well occupied, nor altogither undutifull, present of this simple pastorall, unworthie of your higher conceipt for the meanesse of the stile, but agreeing with the truth in circumstance and matter.

    Colin Clouts Come Home Againe 1591

  • Of the Shepheards or pastorall Poesie called Eglogue, and to what purpose it was first inuented and used.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • For Eglogue and pastorall Poesie, Sir Philip Sydney and Maister Challenner, and that other Gentleman who wrate the late shepheardes Callender.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

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