"The Passionate Shepherd to his Love"
By Christopher Marlowe

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London : John Flasket, 1600,

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Marlowe, Christopher. "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". England's Helicon, , 1600 . Literature in Context: An Open Anthology. http://anthologydev.lib.virginia.edu/work/Marlowe/marlowe-shepherd. Accessed: 2024-04-28T12:41:59.46Z

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ENGLANDS
HELICON.

 Casta placent superis, pura cum veste venite, Et manibus puris sumite fontis aquam.

AT LONDON
 Printed by I. R. for John Flasket, and are
to be sold in Paules Church-yard, at the signe
of the Beare. 1600. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. 1Come live with me, and be my love; 2And we will all the pleasures prove 3That hills and valleys, dales and fields, 4Woods, or steepy mountain yields. 5And we will sit upon the rocks, 6Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks 7 By shallow rivers to whose falls 8Melodious birds sing madrigals. 9And I will make thee beds of roses, 10And a thousand fragrant posies; 11A cap of flowers, and a kirtle 12Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle; 13A gown made of the finest wool 14Which from our pretty lambs we pull; 15Fair linèd slippers for the cold, 16With buckles of the purest gold; 17A belt of straw and ivy-buds, 18With coral clasps and amber studs: 19And, if these pleasures may thee move, 20Come live with me, and be my love. 21The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing 22For thy delight each May-morning: 23If these delights thy mind may move, 24Then live with me, and be my love.

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