The musical shepherdess, or, Dorinda's lamentation for the loss of Amintas. Amintas all Arcadia's Glory was, a youth so sweet that all he did surpass, but times all mowing sith this flower did cut, fate to his days hath the last period put: for musick, and for singing, who but he, was fit to help the gods with harmony? His fair Dorinda, seeing he was gone, and she poor mournful damsel left alone. Invokes the nymphs to sing his praise, whilst she a garland weaves, then ends her days, resolving not to stay behind her love, she being deny'd him here, mounts up above. To a pleasant new tune, called, Amintas farewel: or, Digby's farewell
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London]: Printed for, J. W[right]. J. C[lark]. W. T[hackeray]. and T. P[assenger]., [between 1681 and 1684
- Publication year
- 1681-1684
- ESTC No.
- R234470
- Grub Street ID
- 105817
- Description
- 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 1°.
- Note
- Signed at end: W.P. With allowance, i.e. Walter Pope--Wing
Place and date of publication and publishers' names from Wing CD-ROM, 1996
Verse - "Adieu to the pleasures and follies of love,"
Another edition has "shepeherdess" in title
Catalogued from Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads, facsimile volume 3, p. 342.
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