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This diminutive, quicksilver eclogue also belongs to the Appleton era. In the hayfield stanzas of ‘Upon Appleton House’ it was Thestylis who brought ‘the mowing camp their Cates’ in LI and she seems to stem from Virgil’s Thestylis, who fed the reapers in his Second Eclogue. She comes again in this eclogue of Marvell’s, but by way of Milton’s ‘L’Allegro’, lines 86–90. There ‘the neat-handed Phyllis’ repairs to the cornfield ‘with Thestylis to bind the sheaves’:
Or, if the earlier season lead
To the tann’d Haycock in the Mead.
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Craze, M. (1979). Ametas and Thestylis making Hay-Ropes. In: The Life and Lyrics of Andrew Marvell. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04588-4_26
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