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The Old Wives' Tale, printed as 'by G. P., and of which there is no reason to question Peele's authorship, connects itself with pastoral chiefly through the already mentioned parallel which it affords to Comus. It also anticipates, in a song of harvesters, the introduction of the 'sunburnt sicklemen' of the Tempest masque.
The first strict masque of a pastoral character that we meet with is that of Juno and Iris, with the dance of nymphs and the 'sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, introduced by Shakespeare into the Tempest; but this must not be taken as altogether typical of the independent productions of the time.
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