When  heard his family and name,
Their common stock, the tribe from whence she came;
With decent haste, exulting o'er the plain,
She, with the tidings, to her Father ran.
Meanwhile her harmless flock neglected stray,
Or round the Well in expectation lay:
These  water'd, could he well do less?
He lov'd the sheep, but more the Shepherdess.