In the mean space, living without hope to be ever
sufficient inough to yeeld your worthinesse the smallest
halfe of your due, I doe only desire to leave your ladyship
in assurance--
"That when increase of age and learning sets
My mind in wealthi'r state than now it is,
I'll pay a greater portion of my debts,
Or mortgage you a better Muse than this;
Till then, no kinde forbearance is amisse,
While, though I owe more than I can make good,
This is inough, to shew how faine I woo'd,
Your Ladyship's in all humblenes
"WILLUM BAS."
The first Pastoral consists of thirty-seven stanzas; the second
of seventy-two; the third of forty-eight; each stanza of eight
ten-syllable verses, of which the first six rhyme alternately; the
last two are a couplet. There is a short argument, in verse, prefixed
to each poem. That of the first runs thus:--
"Anander lets Anetor wot
His love, his lady, and his lot."
of the second,--
"Anetor seeing, seemes to tell
The beauty of faire Muridell,
And in the end, he lets hir know
Anander's plaint, his love, his woe.
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