Thorp looked at fifty dances not entitled 'pastoral' but which used shepherds and shepherdesses: of these thirty-eight were for benefit nights.
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First, the refrain word is pronounced by the knight in all stanzas except the last: he controls theshepherdess.
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Here, the solitary life of theshepherdessis interrupted by the boy, with whom she falls in love.
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She uses her beauty and magical powers (disguising demons as shepherds and shepherdesses, for example) to enchant him.
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The catchy little tune reveals she is a nun and not, say, someshepherdess.
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Weave garlands and adorn the hair of your beloved shepherdesses.
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Nino eventually rebels: he discards his queenly disguise and abandons his kingdom to frolic with a beautifulshepherdess.
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Until stanza 12 in which theshepherdessherself speaks the key word 'vilana' and definitively takes control.
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How do we get that message quickly—at the same speed at which we transfer it to one another—to all the shepherdesses in this country?
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It was all very exciting until a telephone call came from hisshepherdessreporting that he was sick and unable to recover quickly.
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She volunteered to become an assistantshepherdessduring lambing.
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I know the difference between a shepherd and ashepherdess, but that is all.
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They are not dresden shepherdesses.
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Its style is rhetorical and pastoral; its shepherds and shepherdesses are wholly conventional, but the author imparts human interest to this idealized world.
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She scorned theshepherdessfor her folly, but theshepherdessbid farewell to the lovely girl.
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