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THE ECLOGUES OF VIRGIL.

E CLOGUE I.

BY MR. JOHN CARYLL*.

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You, Tityrus, enjoy your royal Mufe.

N peaceful fhades, which aged oaks diffuse,

We leave our home, and (once) our pleafant fields,
The native fwain to rude intruders yields;

While

John Caryll, Efq; was probably a Suffex man, and wrote two plays, "The English Princefs, or the Death of "Richard III, 1667," quarto; and "Sir Salomon, or the "Cautious Coxcomb, 1671," quarto. It may be conjectured that he was of the Roman Catholic perfuafion, being fecretary to Queen Mary the wife of James the Second, and one who followed the fortunes of his abdicating mafter. How long he continued in this fervice is unknown, but he was in VOL. II. England

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