many aspiring lesser poets, he began his literary career by writing
pastorals, _Eclogae Sacrae_ (1659), to which is prefixed in Latin the
original of "A Treatise de Carmine Pastorali."

J.E. Congleton
University of Florida

Reprinted here from the copy owned by the Boston Athenaeum by
permission.

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A

TREATISE


de CARMINE PASTORALI

Written by RAPIN.




_The First Part_.