Classic Poem

. . ly shepard swaine
. . vpon the storadyan plainc
. . ent to keepe his fflockes of sheepe
. . .his he did obtaine
. . his eye he did espye
. . wlyous traine to passe
. [a]fter a deere w hi ch ffollowed neere
w hi ch they had hard in chase.
after them came amaine a faire mayd,
w hi ch did moue corydon through the sun for to run,
thinking to haue stayd her: but he frained her
& still prayd her, but dismaid her,
& shee thought his sight to shunn.

Ere they ended had their race, they came vnto a place
where Pann did sitt his ffitt in a garland made of bayes;
but when the godds p er ceiued the maid,
the tooke her ffor diana;
both ffor bewty & attire the like was neuer any;
w hi ch did moue him to loue her to follow,
att w hi ch sight, in a ffright backe againe rann the swai[n,]
where his fflockes were grazing, Pann sate praising,
but still gazing and amazing,
ffearffull to behold the mayd.
ffrom his fface shee fled w i th feare lest the godds
shold find her th[ere]
w i th ffootmanshipp shee him out steppe, till shee
came to riuer cleer[e] ...
but when shee see shee cold [n]ot fflee
nor cold no ffurther sc[ape] . . .
but tha t shee [might] . . . .
to . . . . . .
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