| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | The Invitation | | By Thomas Dekker (c. 1570–1632) |
| | | LIVE with me still, and all the measures | |
| Played to by spheres I’ll teach thee; | |
| Let’s but thus dally, all the pleasures | |
| The moon beholds, her man shall reach thee. | |
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| Dwell in mine arms, aloft we’ll hover, | 5 |
| And see fields of armies fighting: | |
| Oh, part not from me! I’ll discover | |
| There all the books of fancy’s writing. | |
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| Be but my darling, age to free thee | |
| From her curse, shall fall a-dying; | 10 |
| Call me thy empress, Time to see thee | |
| Shall forget his art of flying. | | | | |
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