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By Christopher Marlowe (15641593)COME live with me, and be my dear, | |
And we will revel all the year, | |
In plains and groves, on hills and dales: | |
Where fragrant air breeds sweetest gales. | |
There shall you have the beauteous Pine, | 5 |
The Cedar, and the spreading Vine, | |
And all the woods to be a screen; | |
Least Phoebus kiss my Summer’s Queen. | |
The seat for your disport shall be | |
Over some River in a tree, | 10 |
Where silver sands and pebbles sing, | |
Eternal ditties with the spring. | |
There shall you see the Nymphs at play, | |
And how the Satyrs spend the day, | |
The fishes gliding on the sands: | 15 |
Offering their bellies to your hands. | |
The birds with heavenly tuned throats, | |
Possess woods Echos with sweet notes, | |
Which to your senses will impart, | |
A music to enflame the heart. | 20 |
Upon the bare and leaf-less Oak, | |
The Ring-Doves wooings will provoke | |
A colder blood then you possess, | |
To play with me and do no less. | |
In bowers of Laurel trimly dight, | 25 |
We will out-wear the silent night, | |
While Flora busy is to spread: | |
Her richest treasure on our bed. | |
Ten thousand Glow-worms shall attend, | |
And all this sparkling lights shall spend, | 30 |
All to adorn and beautify; | |
Your lodging with most majesty. | |
Then in mine arms will I enclose | |
Lilies fair mixture with the Rose, | |
Whose nice perfections in love’s play: | 35 |
Shall tune me to the highest key. | |
Thus as we pass the welcome night, | |
In sportful pleasures and delight, | |
The nimble Fairies on the grounds, | |
Shall dance and sing melodious sounds. | 40 |
If these may serve for to entice, | |
Your presence to Love’s Paradise, | |
Then come with me, and be my Dear; | |
And we will then begin the year. | |