So as thou can many things relate;
But tell me first of thy flock's estate.
DIG. My sheep be wasted; (woe is me therefore!)
The jolly shepheard that was of yore,
Is now nor jolly, nor shepheard more.
In foreign coasts men said was plenty;
And so there is, but all of misery:
I deem'd there much to have eked my store,
But such eking hath made my heart sore.
In those countries, whereas I have been,