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58 from the grave of Pastora rises a light that forms a star; and where Amaryllis wept for Amyntas, from every tear sprung up a violet.

But William is his hero, and of William he will sing:

It cannot but be proper to shew what they shall have to catch and carry:

The Birth of the Muse is a miserable fiction. One good line it has, which was borrowed from