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the guitar, which is exchanged in the Bo "' c l IV '•
cities for the more faíhionable harp-
íichord, ftill refounds nightly with the
complaints and amorous tales of the
village fwains; and the fame hand
which pruned the vineyards all day,
ftrikes the tender notes of love in the
evening.
Aunque foi Paftorcita
Bien fe de amores,
También tenemos zélos
Acá en los montes.
An univerfal cuftom prevails in the
villages, for the youth of both fexes
to meet every night, and pafs a few
hours liftening to an hiftorical ro-
wrote them down ; a feries of cares have long
fince joftled moft of them out of my papers, al.
though fome few remain : the Seguidillas of the
country fwains may be eaíily diílinguiíhed from
thofe compofed by the poetafters of the cities,
and which abound with forced conceits, and
allufions to the Heathen mythology, of which
the former are happily ignorant.
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