Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Christopher Marlowe. 156493121. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
COME live with me and be my Love, | |
And we will all the pleasures prove | |
That hills and valleys, dales and fields, | |
Or woods or steepy mountain yields. | |
And we will sit upon the rocks, | 5 |
And see the shepherds feed their flocks | |
By shallow rivers, to whose falls | |
Melodious birds sing madrigals. | |
And I will make thee beds of roses | |
And a thousand fragrant posies; | 10 |
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle | |
Embroider’d all with leaves of myrtle. | |
A gown made of the finest wool | |
Which from our pretty lambs we pull; | |
Fair-linèd slippers for the cold, | 15 |
With buckles of the purest gold. | |
A belt of straw and ivy-buds | |
With coral clasps and amber studs: | |
And if these pleasures may thee move, | |
Come live with me and be my Love. | 20 |
The shepherd swains shall dance and sing | |
For thy delight each May morning: | |
If these delights thy mind may move, | |
Then live with me and be my Love. |