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NYGWPB.766.052
17 Jul 1766:22 (1228)
From the London Chronicle, of April 26, 1766.
THE GENTLE SHEPHERD.
A Parody of the Second Pastoral of Mr. Pope.
A Gentle Shepherd (that's his proper name)
Retir'd to Stow, far distant from the Thames;
Where dancing fishes in the bason play'd,
And crowded columns form'd a marble shade:
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To you I mourn, nor to the deaf I sing,
Your woods shall answer, and your cities ring.
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And yet my speeches pleas'd the Tory throng,
Rough R-gby grinn'd, and N-b-n prais'd my song;
The Cits, while Bow Church bells forget to ring,
In milk white wigs, their kind addresses bring.
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