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what powerful Charms my streams do bring Back again unto their spring? With such force that I their God, Three times stricking with my rod, Could not keep them in their Ranks My fish shute into the banks. Ther's not one, that stays and feeds, All have hid that m in the weeds Heres a Mortal almost dead, Fallen into my River head, Hollowed so with many a spell, That till now none ever fell, Ti a Feamale young and clear, Cast in by some Ravisher, See upon her breast a wound, On which there is no plaster bound, Yet she's uva me, her pulses Beatrice, 'Tis a sign of life and heat, If thou be'st a virgin pure, I can give a present cure, Take a droop into thy wound From my watery lock more round, Then Orient Pearl, and far more pure, Then unchaste fl sh may endure, See she pants and rome her flesh, The warm blood gusheth out a fresh, She is and unpolluted maid: I must have this bleeding stayed, From my banks, I pluck this flower. With holy hand whose virtuous power, Is at once to heal and draw The blood Returns I never saw, A airer Mortal, now does break, Her deadly slumber, virgin, speak, I have healed thy wounds: Fear not him that succord thee: I am this Fountain God below, My waters to a River grow, And betwixt two banks with Osiers set, That only p oh per in the wet, Through the Meadows do they glide, Wheeling still n every side, Sometime winding round about. To ind the Evenest channel oh to, And if thou wilt go with me, Leaving Mortal company. In the Cool streams hall thou lie: Free from harm as well as I, I will give thee for thy food, No fish that use h in the mud, But Trout and Pike that love to swim, Where the Gravel from the bri , Though the pure streams may beseen, Orient Pearl fit for a Queen, Will I give thy love to win And a shell to keep them in, Not a fish in all my brook, That shall disobey thy l oak, But when thou wilt come sliding buy, And from thy white h and take a lie, And to make thee understand: How I can my waves command, They shall Bubble while I sing, Sweeter then the silver string. Thanks Virgin, I must down again. Thy wound will put thee to no pain. Wonder not, so soon 'tis gone; A holy hand was laid upon. Exit. May he prove to thee as rew: Fairest virgin now adue, I must make my waters fly, Least they leave there Channels dry. And beasts, that come unto the spring Miss there morning's watringe. Which I would not, for of late. All the Neighbour people sat. One my banks and from the fold, Tow white Lambs of three weeks Old, Offered to my Diety, For which this year they shall be free From raging floods that as they pass, Leave their gravel in the grass, Nor shall their Meads be over flown, When their grass is newly moan,
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…