Frontispiece Vol.II.

Pride thee, Apollo, in this first of Swains, "The Soothest Shepherd that e'er pipd on Plains."

IN VERSE AND PROSE,

O F

WILLIAM SHENSTONE, Efq;
In THREE VOLUMES. With DECORATIONS.

Sæpe ego longos

Cantando puerum memini me condere foles.

IMITATION.

Right well I call to mind

When (yet a Boy) whole funs and lengthen'd days
I oft employ'd in chaunting fylvan lays.

VIRG.

LONDON: Printed for J. DoDSLEY in Pall-mall, 1777.