Eclogue 3: Menalcas Daemoetas Palaemon Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Eclogue 3: Menalcas Daemoetas Palaemon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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MENALCAS	A
Who owns the flock Damoetas Meliboeus	A
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DAMOETAS	A
Nay they are Aegon's sheep of late by him	B
Committed to my care	C
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MENALCAS	A
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O every way	D
Unhappy sheep unhappy flock while he	E
Still courts Neaera fearing lest her choice	A
Should fall on me this hireling shepherd here	F
Wrings hourly twice their udders from the flock	G
Filching the life juice from the lambs their milk	H
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DAMOETAS	A
Hold not so ready with your jeers at men	I
We know who once and in what shrine with you	J
The he goats looked aside the light nymphs laughed	K
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MENALCAS	A
Ay then I warrant when they saw me slash	L
Micon's young vines and trees with spiteful hook	M
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DAMOETAS	A
Or here by these old beeches when you broke	N
The bow and arrows of Damon for you chafed	O
When first you saw them given to the boy	P
Cross grained Menalcas ay and had you not	Q
Done him some mischief would have chafed to death	R
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MENALCAS	A
With thieves so daring what can masters do	J
Did I not see you rogue in ambush lie	S
For Damon's goat while loud Lycisca barked	T
And when I cried 'Where is he off to now	U
Gather your flock together Tityrus '	-
You hid behind the sedges	A
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DAMOETAS	A
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Well was he	E
Whom I had conquered still to keep the goat	V
Which in the piping match my pipe had won	W
You may not know it but the goat was mine	X
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MENALCAS	A
You out pipe him when had you ever pipe	Y
Wax welded in the cross ways used you not	Q
On grating straw some miserable tune	Z
To mangle	A2
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DAMOETAS	A
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Well then shall we try our skill	B2
Each against each in turn Lest you be loth	C2
I pledge this heifer every day she comes	A
Twice to the milking pail and feeds withal	B2
Two young ones at her udder say you now	U
What you will stake upon the match with me	E
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MENALCAS	A
Naught from the flock I'll venture for at home	D2
I have a father and a step dame harsh	E2
And twice a day both reckon up the flock	G
And one withal the kids But I will stake	F2
Seeing you are so mad what you yourself	G2
Will own more priceless far two beechen cups	A
By the divine art of Alcimedon	U
Wrought and embossed whereon a limber vine	U
Wreathed round them by the graver's facile tool	B2
Twines over clustering ivy berries pale	B2
Two figures one Conon in the midst he set	H2
And one how call you him who with his wand	I2
Marked out for all men the whole round of heaven	U
That they who reap or stoop behind the plough	U
Might know their several seasons Nor as yet	H2
Have I set lip to them but lay them by	S
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DAMOETAS	A
For me too wrought the same Alcimedon	U
A pair of cups and round the handles wreathed	H2
Pliant acanthus Orpheus in the midst	H2
The forests following in his wake nor yet	H2
Have I set lip to them but lay them by	S
Matched with a heifer who would prate of cups	A
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MENALCAS	A
You shall not balk me now where'er you bid	H2
I shall be with you only let us have	J2
For auditor or see to serve our turn	U
Yonder Palaemon comes In singing bouts	A
I'll see you play the challenger no more	K2
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DAMOETAS	A
Out then with what you have I shall not shrink	L2
Nor budge for any man only do you	J
Neighbour Palaemon with your whole heart's skill	B2
For it is no slight matter play your part	H2
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PALAEMON	U
Say on then since on the greensward we sit	H2
And now is burgeoning both field and tree	E
Now is the forest green and now the year	M2
At fairest Do you first Damoetas sing	N2
Then you Menalcas in alternate strain	U
Alternate strains are to the Muses dear	M2
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DAMOETAS	A
'From Jove the Muse began Jove filleth all	B2
Makes the earth fruitful for my songs hath care '	-
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MENALCAS	A
'Me Phoebus loves for Phoebus his own gifts	A
Bays and sweet blushing hyacinths I keep '	-
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DAMOETAS	A
'Gay Galatea throws an apple at me	E
Then hies to the willows hoping to be seen '	-
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MENALCAS	A
'My dear Amyntas comes unasked to me	E
Not Delia to my dogs is better known '	-
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DAMOETAS	A
'Gifts for my love I've found mine eyes have marked	H2
Where the wood pigeons build their airy nests '	-
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MENALCAS	A
'Ten golden apples have I sent my boy	P
All that I could to morrow as many more '	-
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DAMOETAS	A
'What words to me and uttered O how oft	H2
Hath Galatea spoke waft some of them	O2
Ye winds I pray you for the gods to hear '	-
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MENALCAS	A
'It profiteth me naught Amyntas mine	U
That in your very heart you spurn me not	H2
If while you hunt the boar I guard the nets '	-
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DAMOETAS	A
'Prithee Iollas for my birthday guest	H2
Send me your Phyllis when for the young crops	A
I slay my heifer you yourself shall come '	-
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MENALCAS	A
'I am all hers she wept to see me go	P2
And lingering on the word 'farewell' she said	H2
'My beautiful Iollas fare you well ''	-
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DAMOETAS	A
'Fell as the wolf is to the folded flock	G
Rain to ripe corn Sirocco to the trees	A
The wrath of Amaryllis is to me '	-
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MENALCAS	A
'As moisture to the corn to ewes with young	Q2
Lithe willow as arbute to the yeanling kids	A
So sweet Amyntas and none else to me '	-
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DAMOETAS	A
'My Muse although she be but country bred	H2
Is loved by Pollio O Pierian Maids	A
Pray you a heifer for your reader feed '	-
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MENALCAS	A
'Pollio himself too doth new verses make	F2
Feed ye a bull now ripe to butt with horn	U
And scatter with his hooves the flying sand '	-
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DAMOETAS	A
'Who loves thee Pollio may he thither come	R2
Where thee he joys beholding ay for him	B
Let honey flow the thorn bush spices bear '	-
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MENALCAS	A
'Who hates not Bavius let him also love	S2
Thy songs O Maevius ay and therewithal	B2
Yoke foxes to his car and he goats milk '	-
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DAMOETAS	A
'You picking flowers and strawberries that grow	P2
So near the ground fly hence boys get you gone	U
There's a cold adder lurking in the grass '	-
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MENALCAS	A
'Forbear my sheep to tread too near the brink	L2
Yon bank is ill to trust to even now	U
The ram himself see dries his dripping fleece '	-
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DAMOETAS	A
'Back with the she goats Tityrus grazing there	C
So near the river I when time shall serve	T2
Will take them all and wash them in the pool '	-
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MENALCAS	A
'Boys get your sheep together if the heat	H2
As late it did forestall us with the milk	H
Vainly the dried up udders shall we wring '	-
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DAMOETAS	A
'How lean my bull amid the fattening vetch	E2
Alack alack for herdsman and for herd	H2
It is the self same love that wastes us both '	-
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MENALCAS	A
'These truly nor is even love the cause	A
Scarce have the flesh to keep their bones together	U2
Some evil eye my lambkins hath bewitched '	-
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DAMOETAS	A
'Say in what clime and you shall be withal	B2
My great Apollo the whole breadth of heaven	U
Opens no wider than three ells to view '	-
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MENALCAS	A
'Say in what country grow such flowers as bear	C
The names of kings upon their petals writ	H2
And you shall have fair Phyllis for your own '	-
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PALAEMON	U
Not mine betwixt such rivals to decide	H2
You well deserve the heifer so does he	E
With all who either fear the sweets of love	S2
Or taste its bitterness Now boys shut off	V2
The sluices for the fields have drunk their fill	B2