The Country Innocence: / OR THE / Shepherds Enjoyment. / A New Pastoral at the Theatre.

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HAppy is the Country Life; blest with Content, and Health & Ease, Free from Faction, Noise, and strife, we only Plot our selves to please: Peace in mind, the days Delight, And Loves our welcome Dream at night. Hail green Fields and shady Woods, hail Springs & Streams that still run pure, Natures uncorrupted Goods, where Vertue only is secure: Free from Vice, and free from Care, No age nor pain, nor Youth nor snare. Hail to the peaceful Shepherds life, hail to each happy Rural Swain, That lives secure with his old Wife, below Contempt, above Disdain: No storms of Fortune ere can break Those Marriage Vows their Loves did make. In Cooler Shades, ith heat oth day, we set our harmless Flocks to Rove, Beneath we see our Lamkins play, and treat our selves with vertuous Love,

I Pipe, she Sings, our Flocks they Bleat, Whilst grateful Ecchoes all Repeat. When ore the flowery Meades we walk, to some refreshing purling Spring, So innocent is all our talk, the Birds who admire us leave to sing: From Bush to Bush, and Bough to Bough, They follow us where ere we go. Sometimes within the Silver Brook, we play the subtile Anglers there, And with a season-baited Hook, the Water Citizens insnare: Sometimes our Dogs in wanton play, Makes little Laverits their prey. At night we fold our Milky Herd, and ere the Sun has left the Sphear, A wholsome Supper is prepard, of cleanly honest Country fare: And then to Bed, and Arm in Arm, We sleep secure from envies harm.

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