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PASTORALS.

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Bid then our dogs to gather in the sheep.
Good shepherds, with their flock, betimes should sleep.
Who late lies down, thou know'st, as late will rise,
And, sluggard-like, to noon-day snoring lies, 172
While in the fold his injur'd ewes complain,
And after dewy pastures bleat in vain.

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