Sumed most of them were composed before the death of fir Thomas Wyatt in 1541. See Surrey's poems, 4to. fol. 19. 49.

Tho' written perhaps near half a century before the SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR * this will be found far Superior to any of thofe Eclogues in natural unaffected Sentiments, in fimplicity of style, in easy flow of verfification, and all the beauties of pastoral poetry. Spenfer ought to have profited more by fo excellent a model.

His beaftes he kept upon the hill,

And he fate in the dale;

And thus with fighes and forrows fhrill,

He gan to tell his tale.

Oh

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My beaftes a while your foode refraine,
And harke your herdmans founde:
Whom spitefull love, alas! hath slaine,

Through girt with many a wounde.

O happie be ye, beaftès wilde,"
That here your pasture takes:

I fee that ye be not beguilde

Of theese your faithful makes.

The hart he feedeth by the hinde:
The bucke harde by the doe:
The turtle dove is not unkinde
To him that loves her fo,

The

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The ewe fhe hath by her the ramme:
The yong cowe hath the bulle:

The calfe with many a lufty lambe
Do feede their hunger full.

But, wel-a-way! that nature wrought

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I fe therefore to fhape my deathe

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She cruelly is preft;

To th' end that I may want my breathe:

But fince that I fhal die her flave;
Her flave, and eke her thrall :
Write you, my friendes, upon my grave
This chaunce that is befall.

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"Here

"Here lieth unhappy Harpalus

"By cruell love now flaine:
"Whom Phillida unjustly thus,
"Hath murdred with difdaine.,,

XII.

RORIN AND MAKYNE.

AN ANCIENT SCOTTISH PASTORAL.

The palm of pastoral poefy, is here contested by a cotemporary writer with the author of the foregoing. The reader will decide their respective merits. The author of this poem has one advantage over his rival, in having his name handed down to us. Mr. ROBERT HENRYSON (to whom we are indebted for it) appears to so much advantage among the writers of eclogue, that we are forry we can give no better account of him, than what is contained in the following eloge writ by W. Dunbar, a Scottish poet, who lived about the middle of the 16th century:

"In Dumferling, he [ death] hath tane Broun,
"With gude Mr. Robert Henryson. „

In Ramfey's EVERGREEN, Vol. I. whence this distich, and the following beautiful poem are extracted, are preserved two other little Doric pieces, by Henryfon; the one intitled THE LYON AND THE MOUSE; the other, THE GARMENT OF GUDE LADYIS.