(A HERDSMAN enters.) HERDSMAN Daughter of Agamemnon, and bright gem Of Clytemnestra, hear strange things from me. IPHIGENIA And what of terror doth thy tale import? HERDSMAN Two youths, swift-rowing 'twixt the clashing rocks Of our wild sea, are landed on the beach, A grateful offering at Diana's shrine, And victims to the goddess. Haste, prepare The sacred lavers, and the previous rites. IPHIGENIA Whence are the strangers? from what country named? HERDSMAN From Greece: this only, nothing more, I know. IPHIGENIA Didst thou not hear what names the strangers bear?英文原著 · 《Iphigenia in Tauris》
HERDSMAN One by the other was call'd Pylades. IPHIGENIA How is the stranger, his companion, named? HERDSMAN This none of us can tell: we heard it not. IPHIGENIA How saw you them? how seized them? by what chance? HERDSMAN Mid the rude cliffs that o'er the Euxine hang- IPHIGENIA And what concern have herdsmen with the sea? HERDSMAN To wash our herds in the salt wave we came.英文原著 · 《Iphigenia in Tauris》
'Well, come with me,' said the youth. By this time it was evening and the dusk was falling. The young man brought the herdsman to the foot of the great rock, but it was so dark you could hardly see. Still the sound of sheep bells rang softly from above, and the herdsman knew them to be those he had hung on the horns of his ram.英文原著 · 《The Crimson Fairy Book》
That's like a huntsman true. You are my angel, my preserver, Tell. I may preserve you from the Viceroy's power, But from the tempest's rage another must. Yet better 'tis you fall into God's hands, Than into those of men. [To the herdsman.] Herdsman, do thou Console my wife if I should come to grief. I could not choose but do as I have done. [He leaps into the boat.] KUONI (to the fisherman). A pretty man to keep a ferry, truly!英文原著 · 《Wilhelm Tell》
what sorrows did the son of Zeus and Maia herald, in the day he came to Ida's glen, guiding that fair young trio of goddesses, all girded for the fray in bitter rivalry about their beauty, to the shepherd's fold where dwelt the youthful herdsman all alone by the hearth of his lonely hut.英文原著 · 《Andromache》
But when the herdsman called his straggling goats With whistling pipe across the rocky road, And the shard-beetle with its trumpet-notes Boomed through the darkening woods, and seemed to bode Of coming storm, and the belated crane Passed homeward like a shadow, and the dull big drops of rain英文原著 · 《Charmides and Other》