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I can love, but I am loath to say so, least I prove Too soon unhappy. I am content to say so, And would be glad to meet, might I but pray so Much from your fairness, that you would be true. 'Tis her voice And I must answer, Cloe! o the choice Of deer embraces, chaste and holy strains Our hands shall give! I charge you all my veins Through which the blood and spirit take their way, Lo ke up your disobedient heats, and stay Those mutinous desires, that else would grow To strong rebellion: do not wilder show Then blushing modesty may entertain. Alexis within. Cloe! There sounds that blessed name again, And I will meet it: let me not mistake, Enter Alexis. This is some Shepherd, sure I am awake, What may this riddle mean? I will retire, To give my self more knowledge Can my imagination work me so much ill, That I may credit this for truth, and still Believe mine eyes, or shall I firmly hold her Her yet untainted, and these sights but bold Illusion? sure such fancies oft have be Sent to abuse true love, and yet are seen, Daring to blind the virtuous though with error, But be they far from me with their found terror: I am resolved my Cloe yet is true. Cloe within. Cloe hark Cloe sure this voice is new, Whose shrillness Like the sounding of a bell, Tells me it is a woman: Cloe, tell Thy blessed name again Cloe within. Here. O what a grief is this to be so near And not encounter? Enter Cloe. Shepherd we are met, Draw close into the continued ert, least the wet which falls Like lazy mists upon the ground, Soak through yous startups. Fairest, are you found How have we wandered that the better partly Of this good night is perished? o my heart! How have I longed to meet you? how to kiss Those lily hands? how to receive the bliss That charming tongue gives to the happy ear Of him that drinks your language? but I fear I am too much vnmannerd, far to rude, And almost grown lasciuous to intrude These hight behaviours, where regard of fame, Honour, and modesty, a virtuous name, And such discourse, as one fair sister may Without offence unto the brother say, Should rather have be tendered, but believe Here dwells a better temper, do not grieve, Then ever kindest that my first salute, Seasons so much of fancy, I am mute Hence orth to all discourses, but shall be Suiting to your sweet thoughts and modesty: Indeed I will not ask a kiss of you, No not to wring your fingers, nor to sue To those blessed pair of fixed stars for smiles, All a young lovers cunning, all his wiles: And pretty wanton dyings shall to m Be strangers, only to your Chastity I am devoted ever. Be it so Ex it Daphnis. Thou holy man. Give me a little breathing till I can, Be able to unfold what I have seen, Such horror that the Like hath never be, Known to the ear of Shepherd: o my heart, L bours a double motion to impart, So heavy tidings you all know the Bower, Where the chased Clorin, lives by whose great power, Sick men and cattle have be often cured, There lovely Amoret, that was assured, To lusty Perrigot : bleeds out her life: Forced by some iron hand and fatal knife, And by her young Allex S. If there be Ever a Neighbour-brooke or hollow tree, Receive my body, close me up from lust, That follows at my heals, be ever joust, Thou God of shepherds: Pan for her deer sake, That loves the Rivers brinks, and still doth shake, In cold remenbrance of thy quick pursuit: Let me be made a read, and ever mute, Nod to the waters fallen, whilst every blast, Sings through my slender leaves that I was chaste: Fresh maid aduie, Yet one word more, since you have drawn me on To come this night, fear not to meet alone, That man that will not offer to be ill, Though your bright self would ask it for his fill Of this world's goodness: do not fear him then, But keep your pointed time, let other men Set up their bloods to sail, mine shall be ever, Fair as the soul it carries, and unchaste never. exit. My thoughts are pure, The better trial to endure. He,
Plot summary
Plot — The Faithful Shepherdess
Having buried her love, @I6Tifi swears to live a life of chastity ever after, abstaining from her fellow shepherdesses’ amorous sports; instead she will live by his grave and devote herself to herbal medicine. She attracts the attentions of a passing Saji, but he only wants to give her fruit; as her mother always told her, preserving her virginity has protected her from harm. Périgot makes a date with Almoret] and refuses the advances of Almiaryllis} who then plots with a sullen, malcontented shepherd to cross their love. Using herbs and a magic well, she transforms herself into Amoret’s shape, and makes unchaste advances to PeHgOu thinking the worst, Perigot then attacks the real Amoret. After he has gone, the sullen shepherd tries to finish the job by throwing her into the well, but the God of the River rescues her and heals her wounds. GhIGE) eager for sex, propositions a number of boys. [HEHE is only interested in Ql6rin, but(GHIGe manages Daphnis turns out to want a chaste lover, so Chloe sends him off on a fool’s errand looking for a hollow tree, and hopes for better luck with Alexis. She also takes the fancy of the sullen shepherd, who attacks and wounds Alexis; but the confrontation is interrupted by the chance arrival of the Satjr. The sullen shepherd is scared off, and the Satyr brings \ANGRIS to Clorin for medical treatment. Chloe decides that joining Daphiig inside his hollow tree will be better than nothing. Ammaryllis confesses her shape-shifting ruse to a suicidally remorseful Perigot, and offers to prove it by returning in the same disguise. However, the Amoret he next encounters is the real one. Mistaking her for another substitute, he wounds her a second time. The Satyi takes her to Clorin to be healed. Amaryllis thinks better of her lustful thoughts when the sullen shepherd attempts to rape her. Since THEHOElis attracted to Clorin for her chaste fidelity to her dead love, she breaks his infatuation by ===== PAGE 478 ===== pretending to offer herself to him. The Satyr finds Chloe in the hollow tree with Daphnis, so Clorin tests their chastity with a miraculous taper which will burn only the lustful; DapHfiis is proven chaste, but Chloe gets her fingers burnt. P&H6t goes to Clorin for help in getting Amoret’s blood off his hands; there he meets the recovered Amoret, and she forgives him. The Priest of Pan notices that the young people have been out all night, and he too ends up at @l@Hiti’s bower. The lovers are paired off, and the sullen…