eclogue (eklog)

[Early mod. E. also eclog, and eglogue, æglogne; = F.eglogue, eclogue, now églogue, éclogue = Sp. ecloga = Pg. egloga It. egloga, ecloga = G. ekloge = Dan. Sw. eklog, Some be of opinion, and the chiefe of those who haue written in this Art among the Latines, that the pastor all Poesie which we commonly call by the name of Eglogue and Bucolick, a tear me brought in by the Sicilian Poets, Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 30. should be the first of any other.