person just
aroused from sleep). _April_: Hobbinol sings a song on Eliza, queen of
shepherds. _May_: Palinode (3 _syl._) exhorts Piers to join the
festivities of May, but Piers replies that good shepherds who seek their
own indulgence expose their flocks to the wolves. He then relates the
fable of the kid and her dam. _June_: Hobbinol exhorts Colin to greater
cheerfulness, but Colin replies there is no cheer for him while Rosalind
remains unkind and loves Menalcas better than himself. _July_: Morrel, a
goat-herd, invites Thomalin to come with him to the uplands, but
Thomalin replies that humility better becomes a shepherd (_i.e._, a
pastor or clergyman). _August_: Perigot and Willie contend in song, and
Cuddy is appointed arbiter. _September_: Diggon Davie complains to
Hobbinol of clerical abuses. _October_: On poetry, which Cuddy says has
no encouragement, and laments that Colin neglects it, being crossed in
love. _November_;[TN-174] Colin, being asked by Thenot to sing, excuses
himself because of his grief for Dido, but finally he sings her elegy.
_December_: Colin again complains that his heart is desolate because
Rosalind loves him not (1579).

=Shepheards Hunting= (_The_), four "eglogues" by George Wither, while
confined in the Marshalsea (1615). The shepherd, Roget, is the poet
himself, and his "hunting" is a satire called _Abuses Stript and Whipt_,
for which he was imprisoned. The first three eglogues are upon the
subject of Roget's imprisonment, and the fourth is on his love of
poetry. "Willy" is the poet's friend, William Browne, of the Inner
Temple, author of _Britannia's Pastorals_. He was two years the junior
of Wither.

=Shepherd= (_The_), Moses, who for forty years fed the flocks of Jethro,
his father-in-law.

Sing, heavenly Muse, that on the secret top
Of Oreb or of Sinai, didst inspire
That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed,
"In the beginning," how the heaven and earth
Rose out of chaos.

Milton, _Paradise Lost_, i. (1665).

_Shepherd_ (_The Gentle_), George Grenville, the statesman. One day, in
addressing the House, George Grenville said, "Tell me where! tell me
where!..." Pitt hummed the line of a song then very popular, beginning,
"Gentle shepherd, tell me where!" and the whole House was convulsed with
laughter (1712-1770).

[Asterism] Allan Ramsay has a beautiful Scotch pastoral called _The
Gentle Shepherd_ (1725).

_Shepherd_ (_John Claridge_), the sig