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MELIBOEUS. / Tityrus, thou in the shade of a spreading beech-tree reclining, / Meditatest, with slender pipe, the Muse of the woodlands. / We our country's bounds and pleasant pastures relinquish, / We our country fly; thou, Tityrus, stretched in the shadow, / Teachest the woods to resound with the name of the fair Amaryllis.
TITYRUS. / O Meliboeus, a god for us this leisure created, / For he will be unto me a god forever; his altar / Oftentimes shall imbue a tender lamb from our sheepfolds. / He, my heifers to wander at large, and myself, as thou seest, / On my rustic reed to play what I will, hath permitted.