128 examples of shepheard in sentences

My maister is neither damnde nor dead, and yet is in the case of both your maisters, like a woodden shepheard and a sheepish woodman; for he is lost in seeking of a lost sheepe and spent in hunting a Doe that hee would faine strike.

Faire Forester and lovely shepheard Swaine, Your Carrolls call Eurymine in vaine, For she is gone: her Cottage and her sheepe With me, her brother, hath she left to keepe, And made me sweare by Pan, ere she did go, To see them safely kept for Gemulo.

The homely shepheard, nor the ruder clowne; But manie Muses, and the Nymphes withall, That sweetly in accord did tune their voyce To the soft sounding of the waters fall; That my glad hart thereat did much reioyce.

Me seemd I had his person seene elsewhere, Most like Alcyon seeming at a glaunce; Alcyon he, the iollie shepheard swaine, That wont full merrilie to pipe and daunce, 55 And fill with pleasance every wood and plaine.

Then stay, Alcyon, gentle shepheard!

Well may the shepheard lasses now lament;

"Ne let Elisa, royall shepheardesse, 225 The praises of my parted* love envy, For she hath praises in all plenteousnesse Powr'd upon her, like showers of Castaly, By her owne shepheard, Colin, her own shepheard, That her with heavenly hymnes doth deifie, 230 Of rusticke Muse full hardly to be betterd.

"Ne let Elisa, royall shepheardesse, 225 The praises of my parted* love envy, For she hath praises in all plenteousnesse Powr'd upon her, like showers of Castaly, By her owne shepheard, Colin, her own shepheard, That her with heavenly hymnes doth deifie, 230 Of rusticke Muse full hardly to be betterd.

Weepe, Shepheard! weepe, to make my undersong**.

So having said, away she softly past; Weepe, Shepheard! weepe, to make mine undersong.

315 [* Trace, step] "But now, ye shepheard lasses!

"Let bagpipe never more be heard to shrill, That may allure the senses to delight, Ne ever shepheard sound his oaten quill 325 Unto the many*, that provoke them might To idle pleasance; but let ghastlinesse

Weepe, Shepheard! weepe, to make my undersong.

385 "So when I have with sorrow satisfyde Th'importune Fates which vengeance on me seeks, And th'heavens with long languor pacifyde, She, for pure pitie of my sufferance meeke, Will send for me; for which I daily long, 390 And will till then my painfull penance eeke, Weepe, Shepheard!

440 Weepe, Shepheard! weepe, to make my undersong.

489 Weepe, Shepheard! weepe, to make my undersong.

Cease, Shepheard!

The promise of Rymer to discuss Milton was made in 1678, when, on the last page of his little book, The Tragedies of the Last Age consider'd and examined by the Practice of the Ancients and by the Common Sense of all Ages, in a letter to Fleetwold Shepheard, Esq.

He had been back in civilization and London only two weeks, unless Cairo and Shepheard's Hotel are civilization, and he had been asked everywhere, and for the first week had gone everywhere.

[Footnote 1: This letter, signed Parthenia, was by Miss Shepheard, sister of Mrs. Perry, who wrote the Letter in No, 92, signed 'Leonora.'] * *

[Footnote 2: This letter is by Miss Shepheard, the 'Parthenia' of No. 140.]

If the Shepheard will suffer the sheep to be scab'd, Sir Lop.

Here is a passage in another strain, which culminates in a touch of haunting melody that Spenser himself might have envied: I marvell that a rusticke shepheard dare With woodmen thus audaciously compare?

Spenser duly celebrates, in his "Shepheard's Calender," Thilke mery moneth of May When love-lads masken in fresh aray, when "all is yclad with pleasaunce, the ground with grasse, the woods with greene leaves, and the bushes with bloosming buds.

[Footnote O: See Spenser, 'The Shepheard's Calendar (May)'.

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