And, wethers, of this tender grass take, nothing coy, your fill:

So, when it comes, the after-math shall find you feeding still.

So! so! graze on, that ye be full, that not an udder fail:

Part of the milk shall rear the lambs, and part shall fill my pail."

Then Daphnis flung a carol out, as of a nightingale:—

DAPHNIS.

"Me from her grot but yesterday a girl of haughty brow

Spied as I passed her with my kine, and said, "How fair art thou!"

I vow that not one bitter word in answer did I say,

But, looking ever on the ground, went silently my way.