And in the chamber stir, and first of all lift up the head!

Hymen! O Hymen! now be gladsome at this marriage bed!"

Emblem.

Usque adeo latet utilitas.


THE TWENTY-FIRST IDILLION.

Argument.

A Neatherd is brought chafing that Eunica, a Maid of the city, disdained to kiss him. Whereby it is thought that Theocritus seemeth to check them that think this kind of writing in Poetry to be too base and rustical. And therefore this Poem is termed Neatherd.

NEATHERD.