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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
<br>by Christopher Marlowe
<br>1599
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<br>Come live with me and be my love,
<br>And we will all the pleasures prove
<br>That valleys, groves, hills, and fields
<br>Woods or steepy mountain yields
<br>And we will sit upon the rocks,
<br>Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks
<br>By shallow rivers to whose falls
<br>Melodious birds sing madrigals.
<br>And I will make thee beds of roses
<br>And a thousand fragrant posies,
<br>A cap of flower, and a kirtle
<br>Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;
<br>A gown made of the finest wool
<br>Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
<br>Fair lined slippers for the cold
<br>With buckles of the purest gold;
<br>A belt of straw and ivy buds,
<br>With coral clasps and amber studs;
<br>And if these pleasures may thee move,
<br>Come live with me and be my love.
<br>The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing
<br>For thy delight each May morning:
<br>If these delights thy mind may move,
<br>Th...