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... eclogue . Shepherd as episcopus was the bishop of the Christian Church , who carried a crook as emblem of his office . At several points the two uses of the metaphor confirmed one another . The pastoral shepherd sang of love , David of ...
... eclogue . Shepherd as episcopus was the bishop of the Christian Church , who carried a crook as emblem of his office . At several points the two uses of the metaphor confirmed one another . The pastoral shepherd sang of love , David of ...
Page 99
... eclogue , play again in the apt Book of The Faerie Queene . Spenser's reader , opening the pages of this work by an unknown poet , would see eclogues like Vergil's but with a title and pictures that strongly recalled those of the ...
... eclogue , play again in the apt Book of The Faerie Queene . Spenser's reader , opening the pages of this work by an unknown poet , would see eclogues like Vergil's but with a title and pictures that strongly recalled those of the ...
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... eclogue Cuddie , a shepherd - poet , has written pastoral and ditties ( with little reward ) and speaks with a touch of ancientry and rusticity ; but Piers , arguing to persuade him to aspire now to heroic poetry , bids him ' abandon ...
... eclogue Cuddie , a shepherd - poet , has written pastoral and ditties ( with little reward ) and speaks with a touch of ancientry and rusticity ; but Piers , arguing to persuade him to aspire now to heroic poetry , bids him ' abandon ...
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