It would be easy to make a pleasant little volume of selections from the more striking or more beautiful passages in Browne’s Pastorals, but here we can hardly find room for half-a-dozen specimens. Of death he writes:—
Death is no stranger,
And generous Spirits never fear for danger.
Of cheerful content:—
Where there’s content, ’tis ever Holy-day.
Of the Good Shepherd he says that from
the stem
Of that sweet singer of Jerusalem,
Came the best Shepherd ever flocks did keepe,
Who yeelded up his life to save his sheepe.