title: Il Pastor Fido (The Faithful Shepherd)
variant_description: There are two issues of this edition. Greg 629a(i) contains the original title leaf dated 1647. Greg 629a(ii) contains a cancel title leaf dated 1648, advertising additional poems and a discourse on the civil wars of Rome, giving a different author attribution and publisher, and adding a Latin motto. Twelve quires were added to this issue, one at the beginning of the book [<sup>π</sup>A4] and eleven at the end [2G-2R<sup>4</sup>]; the additional preliminary quire contains a new dedication, a new address to the reader, and "An Index of the several things contained in this book." See also Greg 
title_page_title: IL PASTOR FIDO The faithfull  Shepheard WITH An A<small>DDITION</small> of  divers other POEMS Concluding with a short Discourse OF THE LONG CIVILL WARRES  OF ROME. To his Highnesse THE PRINCE OF <i>WALES</i>.
title_page_author: By <i>Richard Fanshawe</i>, Esq.
title-page_latin_motto: H<small>ORAT</small>. <i>Patiarque  vel inconsultus haberi.</i>
title_page_imprint: L<small>ONDON</small>:  Printed for <i>Humphrey Moseley</i>, and are to be sold at his Shop at the  Princes Armes in S. <i>Pauls</i> Church-yard. 1648.
paratext_dedication: "The Epistle Dedicatory" <i>to</i>: Charles, Prince of Wales (<i>later King Charles II</i>); <i>from</i>: Richard Fanshawe [<sup>π</sup>A2r]. Epistle <i>to</i>: Charles, Prince of Wales (<i>later King Charles II</i>); <i>from</i>: unsigned [A3r]
  
paratext_charachter_list: "The Speakers" [a2r]
paratext_other_paratexts: "An Index of the severall things contained in this Booke" [<sup>π</sup>A4r]; engraved illustration of a river god, inscribed "Alfeo. F." [a2v]; two poems to the Prince of Wales (dated 1645 and 1646) [2F1r]; additional poems and translations [2G1r]; "A Summary Discourse of the Civill Warres of Rome" [2Q4r]
stationer_entries_in_register: Jun 8, 1647: Entered to Ruth Raworth: "a booke called Il Pastor fido written originally in Italian & now newly translated into English &c. Salvo Iure cuiuscunq<i>ue</i>".<br />Feb 6, 1648: Transferred from Ruth Raworth to Humphrey Moseley: "a booke called Il. Pastor fido. or the faithfull Sheaphard &c translated into English by m<sup>r</sup> ffran: [<i>sic</i>] ffanshaw w<sup>th</sup> diuers other poems annexed therevnto by the same author".
transcript_modern_spelling: Il pastor fido the faithful shepherd with an addition of divers other poems concluding with a short discourse of the long civil wars of Rome to his highness the prince of Wales by Richard Fanshawe esq. Horat patiarque vel inconsultus haberi London printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his shop at the prince's arms in St. Paul's Churchyard 1648