I am the simple daughter of a cowherd, And this unworthy love is worse than death; What woe, Alas, has Fate afflicted me,- For hope of gain, I lost my all!
"Vidyapati Bangiya Padabali Songs of the love of Radha and Krishna"
Vidyapati Thakura
He could detect a scholar in the egg, and prophesied Latinity from a boy that seemed fit only to be a cowherd.
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren
The Author tells us, that out of a great Drove, such as the Merchants bring yearly into Italy out of Dalmatia and the bordering Countries, one Beast happen'd to straggle from the rest, and be left behind; which a cowherd brought to a Farm belonging to the Count Borromeo: This Beast infected all the Cows and Oxen of the Place where he was taken in, with the same Distemper he labour'd under; the Beast it self dying in a few Days, as did all the rest, except one only, who had a Rowel put into his Neck.
"The Plague at Marseilles Consider'd"
Richard Bradley