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The Eighth Pastoral.

OR,

PHARMACEUTRIA.

The ARGUMENT.

This Pastoral contains the Songs of Damon and Alphesibœus. The first of 'em bewails the loss of his Mistress, and repines at the Success of his Rival Mopsus. The other repeats the Charms of some Enchantress, who endeavour'd by her Spells and Magic to make Daphnis in Love with her.

HE mournful Muse of two despairing Swains,
The Love rejected, and the Lovers' pains;
To which the salvage Linxes listning stood,
The Rivers stood on heaps, and stopp'd the running Flood,
The hungry Herd their needful Food refuse;5
Of two despairing Swains, I sing the mournful Muse.

Great Pollio, thou for whom thy Rome prepares
The ready Triumph of thy finish'd Wars,