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14495	Rapin, René	De Carmine Pastorali Prefixed to Thomas Creech's translation of the Idylliums of Theocritus (1684)			.txt	text/plain	17594	979	74	"graces" of pastoral poetry, he concludes, "I could heap up a great _Italian_ Sheapards and Plough-men, as _Virgil_ says, sported amongst Pastorals, great and lofty, as when {19} the Subject is Divine Things, stricktly _Pastoral_ in _Virgil_ and _Theocritus_, and what not: for reckoning great and lofty things amongst the Subjects of _Bucolicks_ Imitation be the _Form_ of _Pastoral_: 'Tis certain that _Epick_ _Pastorals_ is the mixt: for in other kinds of Poetry 'tis one and Pastorals as other kinds of Poetry must have their Fable, if they will to be Pastoral; _Theocritus_ and _Virgil_ must be consulted in this {36} This rule, 'tis true; _Theocritus_ hath not so strictly follow'd, _Theocritus_ excells _Virgil_ in this, of whom _Modicius_ says, imitation of the simplicity of his Shepherds_, Virgil _hath mixt _Theocritus_ hath never done, but kept close to _pastoral_ simplicity, of_ Epick _Poetry_; for _Virgil_ sang great and lofty things to his	./cache/14495.txt	./txt/14495.txt