"Alas! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherds trade, And strictly meditate the thankles Muse, Were it not better don as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera’s hair?"
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John Milton, ' (wr. 1637; pub. 1638, 1645); allusion to Virgil's first eclogue.
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