Eclogues

Virgil

Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.

  1. for auditor—or see, to serve our turn,
  2. yonder Palaemon comes! In singing-bouts
  3. i'll see you play the challenger no more.
DAMOETAS
  1. Out then with what you have; I shall not shrink,
  2. nor budge for any man: only do you,
  3. neighbour Palaemon, with your whole heart's skill—
  4. for it is no slight matter—play your part.
PALAEMON
  1. Say on then, since on the greensward we sit,
  2. and now is burgeoning both field and tree;