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xii herds were peculiar favourites of the Nine, and sometimes honoured with the company of learned, and polite patrons.

Thyrsis, in the second scene of the first act, prevails with Amyntas to relate to him the story of his love by these arguments;

“My faithful friendship well deserves the trust; and our converse with the Muses, which reveals objects to me that are concealed from vulgar minds."

Thyrsis went to the court of Ferrara; he met with a kind reception there; and the society of that court had the following effect upon him: