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    The Affectionate Shepherd
    The Affectionate Shepherd
    The Affectionate Shepherd
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    The Affectionate Shepherd

    By J. O. (James Orchard) Halliwell-Phillipps and Richard Barnfield

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    Release dateMay 1, 1998
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      Scarce had the morning starre hid from the lightHeavens crimson canopie with stars bespangled,But I began to rue th' unhappy sightOf that faire boy that had my hart intangled;Cursing the time, the place, the sense, the sin;I came, I saw, I viewd, I slipped in.If it be sinne to love a sweet-fac'd boy,Whose amber locks trust up in golden tramelsDangle adowne his lovely cheekes with joy,When pearle and flowers his faire haire enamels;If it be sinne to love a lovely lad,Oh then sinne I, for whom my soule is sad.The opening two stanzas of this lyric poem could be said to place the reader immediately in a world of homoeroticism. It was published in 1594 when Barnfield was 20 years old and although it had some success, it seems to have suffered because of of its content. This first poem in the collection was subtitled 'The teares of an affectionate shepheard sicke for the love or the complaint of Daphnis for the love of Ganimede' It is Daphnis who is telling the story and he reveals that Queen Guendolen also has designs on the beautiful boy Ganimede. Queen Guendolen is herself being wooed by an older man but:Now doth he stroke his beard, and now againeHe wipes the drivel from his filthy chin;Now offers he a kisse, but high DisdaineWill not permit her hart to pity him:This seems all too much for Daphnis as he again thinks of the beautiful boy Ganimede and he gets more sensual:O would to God, so I might have my fee,My lips were honey, and thy mouth a bee!Then shouldst thou sucke my sweete and my faire flower,That now is ripe and full of honey-berries;Then would I leade thee to my pleasant bower,Fild full of grapes, of mulberries, and cherries:Then shouldst thou be my waspe or else my bee,I would thy hive, and thou my honey, bee.The poem then becomes a lyric of all the good things that Daphnis has to offer Ganimede in his attempt to get Ganimede to come home with him and live in his sheepcote. He offers him all the beauty that nature has to offer and there are some fine stanzas describing the joys and wonders of the animal and plant life that abounds. He ends by reminding Ganimede that his good looks will be eroded by time, but that Daphnis will still love him. The first part of the poem finishes at this point.The second part is entitled: 'the second dayes lamentation of the affectionate shepherd'. It would seem that Ganimede has refused Daphnis and he chides him for being cruel and unkind. He then goes on to express his love in more desperate terms. There is a curious sequence where he hones in on Ganimede's long curly hair which he has admired previously, but now he cautions the boy and reminds him that Absolom was killed when his hair caught in a tree. He says that Ganimede's hair is indecent, but he forgives it because love is blind. He the lectures Ganimede on his pride and describes for him the virtues that he should seek to achieve. Their is another curious twist at the end of this section: Daphnis reveals that he is now an old man and that he can say farewell to the love-hating boyThe third part is entitled 'The shepherds content, or the happiness of a harmless life. Written on the occasion of the former subject.' This section portrays the joys of the shepherds life, the simple pleasures and the freedom from worries. Again their is a curious section where three stanzas are inserted in praise of Sir Philip Sidney ending with the hope that his soul sleeps in sweet Elysium. The poem then goes on to further extoll the joys of a shepherds life and all thoughts of the love for Ganimede have been forgotten.The third section certainly anchors the poem in the pastoral tradition. There follows a sonnet and a complaint, but theses can be quickly passed over. The Affectionate Shepherd is a bit of a find, there is much to delight the modern reader. The verse flows easily and does not lose its musical feel. I suppose one has to bear in mind that it is based on the classical pastoral tradition and so may appear artificial to readers who are not familiar with the genre. I thoroughly enjoyed its freshness and vitality and so 4 stars.

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    Title: The Affectionate Shepherd

    Author: Richard Barnfield

    Editor: James Orchard Halliwell

    Release Date: November 23, 2006 [EBook #19902]

    Language: English

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    THE

    AFFECTIONATE SHEPHERD:

    BY

    RICHARD BARNFIELD.

    A.D. 1594.

    EDITED BY

    JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, Esq. F.R.S.

    HON. M.R.I.A., HON. M.R.S.L., F.S.A., ETC.

    LONDON.

    REPRINTED FOR THE PERCY SOCIETY,

    BY T. RICHARDS, 100, ST. MARTIN'S LANE.

    M.DCCC.XLV.

    COUNCIL

    OF

    The Percy Society.

    President.

    The Rt. Hon. LORD BRAYBROOKE, F.S.A.

    THOMAS AMYOT, Esq. F.R.S. Treas. S.A.

    WILLIAM HENRY BLACK, Esq.

    WILLIAM CHAPPELL, Esq. F.S.A.

    J. PAYNE COLLIER, Esq. F.S.A.

    C. PURTON COOPER, Esq. Q.C., F.R.S., F.S.A.

    PETER CUNNINGHAM, Esq.

    JAMES HENRY DIXON, Esq.

    WILLIAM JERDAN, Esq. F.S.A., M.R.S.L.

    CAPTAIN JOHNS, R.M.

    T. J. PETTIGREW, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A.

    LEWIS POCOCK, Esq. F.S.A.

    SIR CUTHBERT SHARP.

    WILLIAM SANDYS, Esq. F.S.A.

    WILLIAM J. THOMS, Esq. F.S.A.

    THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq. M.A., F.S.A., Secretary and Treasurer.

    PREFACE.

    Two copies only of the poem by Barnfield here reprinted, are known to be preserved; one in Sion College Library, and another, formerly in Heber's possession, mentioned in Bibliotheca Heberiana, iv. 15. Its merits and great rarity have pointed it out as a work deserving to be more known and appreciated. Barnfield is, perhaps, chiefly remembered by his elegant pieces printed in the Passionate Pilgrim, attributed by some to Shakespeare; but Mr. Collier has distinctly proved them to belong to the less eminent poet. The Affectionate Shepherd was his first production, as he himself confesses in the preface to his Cynthia, 1595, and it has received the well-merited commendation of Warton. Besides these poems, he is the author of The Complaint of Poetrie for the death of Liberalitie, 4to. 1598, and others published at the same time, reprints of which are in the British Museum; also The Encomium of Lady Pecunia, or the Praise of Money, a curious manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum, and likewise printed in the author's life-time. It should be mentioned that in the original copies of the following tract are a few hexameter verses on the Rape of Helen, which have been omitted as of an inferior kind to the other part of the work, and for still more obvious reasons. The Affectionate Shepherd itself will be found remarkably free from the coarseness which disfigures so much of the Elizabethan literature,—an additional inducement, if any were necessary, for rescuing it from the liability to destruction which is of course incident to any book of such excessive rarity. Our thanks are due to the Rev. H. Christmas, Librarian of Sion College, for the courtesy and liberality with which he permitted our transcript to be made from a volume of tracts possessing the greatest charm for the bibliographer; for besides the present one, it contains the first edition of Shakespeare's Lucrece, and several other pieces of nearly equal value, in the finest possible condition.

    THE

    AFFECTIONATE SHEPHEARD.

    CONTAINING THE COMPLAINT OF DAPHNIS FOR

    THE LOUE OF GANYMEDE.

    Amor plus mellis, quam fellis, est.

    London:

    Printed by John Danter, for T. G. and E. N., and

    are to bee sold in Saint Dunstones

    Church-yeard in Fleetstreet.

    1594.

    TO THE RIGHT EXCELLENT AND MOST BEAUTIFULL LADY,

    THE LADIE PENELOPE RITCH.

    Fayre lovely ladie, whose angelique eyes

    Are vestall candles of sweet beauties treasure,

    Whose speech is able to inchaunt the wise,

    Converting joy to paine, and paine to

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