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36 The GENTLE SHEPHERD.
A C T II. S C E N E IV.
Behind a tree, upon 'the plain,
Pati e and his Pe gg y meet;
In love without a vicious (lain.
The bonny lafs and chearfu’ Swain
Change vows and kifles fweet.
P A T IE and PEGGY,
Peggy.
OPatie, let me gang, I mauna (lay,
We’re baith cry’d hame, and Jenny fhe’s away,
Pati .e.
I’m laith to part fae foon; now we’re alane.
And Roger he’s away with Jenny gane:
They’re as content, for ought I hear or fee.
To be alane themfelves, I judge, as we.
Here where primrofes thickeft paint the green.
Hard by this little burnie let us lean.
Hark how the lav’rocks chant aboon our heads.
How faft the welllin winds fough throw the reeds.
Peggy.
The feented meadows,—birds—and healthy breeze.
For ought I ken may mair than Peggy pleafe.
P A T I E.
Ye w.rang me fair to doubt my being kind;
In fpeaking fae ye ca’ me dull and blind:
Gif I cou’d fancy ought fae fweet or fair
As my dear Meg, or worthy of my care.
Thy breath is fweeter than the fweetdt brier:
Thy cheek and breaft the fineft flowers appear;
Thy words excell the maifl: delightfu’ notes.
That warble through the merl or mavis’ throtes.
With thee I tent nae flowers that bulk the field,
Or ripeft berries that our mountains yield.
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