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,
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
a cup of flowers, and a kirtle
embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;
a gown made of the finest wool
which from our pretty lambs we pull;
fair-lined slippers for the cold,
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 withe me and be my love
the shepherd swains shall dance and sing
for thy delight each may morning
if these delights thy mind may move
then come live me and be my love
CHIRSTOPHER MARLOWE
(1564-1593)
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,
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
a cup of flowers, and a kirtle
embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;
a gown made of the finest wool
which from our pretty lambs we pull;
fair-lined slippers for the cold,
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 withe me and be my love
the shepherd swains shall dance and sing
for thy delight each may morning
if these delights thy mind may move
then come live me and be my love
CHIRSTOPHER MARLOWE
(1564-1593)
