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THE
GENTLE SHEPHERD.
ACT I.'
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SCENE I.
Beneath the fouth-fnle of a craigy Held,
Where chriflal fprings their halefome waters yield ;
Twa youthfu’jhipherds on the gowans lay,
“Tenting their flocks ae lonny morn of May.
Poor Roger grancs, till hollow echoes ring ;
But blyther Patie likes to laugh and fmg.
PAT IE and ROGEVi.
Patie.
SANG I. The wakbg of the the fauld.
MY Peggy is a young thing,
JuJl enter’d in her teens.
Fair as the day, and fweet as May,
Fair as the day and always gay ;
My Peggy is a young thing.
And Pm not very auld.
Yet well I like to meet her at
The waking of the fauld.
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