[265] Others as husbandmen appear’d.] Homer Il. xviii. Shield of Achilles:
He also graved on it a fallow field
Rich, spacious, and well-till’d. Plowers not few
There driving to and fro their sturdy teams
Labour’d the ground.
There too he form’d the likeness of a field
Crowded with corn: in which the reapers toil’d
Each with a sharp-tooth’d sickle in his hand.
Along the furrow here the harvest fell
In frequent handfuls: there they bound the sheaves.