Bedell and T. Collins, at the Middle | Temple-Gate in
Fleet-street, 1665.
The verso of the title-page bears the date March 3, 166-4/5.
Licensed,
Roger L'Estrange.
As neither the Second Folio nor the Quartos print any list of the
Characters it may be as well to give one here.
Perigot. Old Shepherd.
Thenot Priest of Pan.
Daphnis. God of the River.
Alexis. Satyr.
Sullen Shepherd. Shepherds.
Clorin. Cloe.
Amoret. Shepherdesses.
Amarillis.
Scene: Thessaly.
The following Dedicatory Verses were omitted from the Second Folio.
_To my lov'd friend M. John Fletcher, on his Pastorall_.
Can my approovement (Sir) be worth your thankes?
Whose unkn[o]wne name and muse (in swathing clowtes)
Is not yet growne to strength, among these rankes
To have a roome and beare off the sharpe flowtes
Of this our pregnant age, that does despise
All innocent verse, that lets alone her vice.
But I must Justifie what privately,
I censurd to you: my ambition is
(Even by my hopes and love to Poesie)
To live to perfect such a worke, as this,
Clad in such elegant proprietie
Of words, including a mortallitie.
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