Pastoral poem · 1714

The Shepherd's Week

In Six Pastorals

by John Gay

Gay's six burlesque pastorals, one for each day of the week, in which English rustics quarrel, court, mourn and get drunk in mock-Spenserian dialect, a parody of Ambrose Philips's pastoral manner

Contents · 6 parts

• Monday; or, The Squabbleabout 120 lines
• Tuesday; or, The Dittyabout 110 lines
• Wednesday; or, The Dumpsabout 120 lines
• Thursday; or, The Spellabout 140 lines
• Friday; or, The Dirgeabout 160 lines
• Saturday; or, The Flightsabout 130 lines

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