Jean's voice tells them they must marry and become the shepherd and shepherdess of humanity. Years before the action begins, Gualtiero, King of Thessaly, had married a poor shepherdess, Griselda. While returning in disguise as a shepherdess, Raja Beti meets Kumar. Two soldiers, who are brothers, befriend a lovely young woman, a shepherdess. But her breakthrough role was Dorinda the shepherdess in Handel's "Orlando" opposite mezzo Marilyn Horne. In the second storyline, the lustful shepherdess Cloe is seeking a lover. Maid Marian was in origin a "shepherdess" figure associated with May Day. The Monster saves a young shepherdess (Anne Darling) from drowning. Libby tries to fend him off by quoting Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Shepherdess Replies". Unfortunately, the romance of this Muslim prince and Hindu shepherdess was doomed to failure. A shepherdess, who also will have to atone some minor faults. John Fletcher's "The Faithful Shepherdess", an adaptation of Guarini's play, was produced in 1608. The shepherdess and stranger fall in love and have an affair. It is a pastourelle, meaning it concerns the romance of a shepherdess. See also "The Shepherdess", a similar painting by the same artist.