The Subject proposed.—Remarks upon Pastoral Poetry.—A Tract of Country near the Coast described.—An Impoverished Borough.—Smugglers and their Assistants.—Rude Manners of the Inhabitants.—Ruinous Effects of an high Tide.—The Village Life more generally considered: Evils of it—The youthful Labourer.—The Old Man: his Soliloquy.—The Parish Workhouse: its Inhabitants.—The Sick Poor: their Apothecary.—The dying Pauper.—The Village Priest.