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The Passionate Shepherd's Love Poem and the Nymph's Reply, Study notes of Dance

Two classic english poems: 'the passionate shepherd to his love' by christopher marlowe and 'the nymph's reply to the shepherd'. The first poem is a pastoral love poem where a shepherd invites a woman to live with him and enjoy the pleasures of nature. The second poem is a response from the woman, who expresses her doubts about the fleeting nature of love and pleasure. Both poems were first published in the early 17th century and have been widely studied and admired for their beauty and poetic language.

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THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE.
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[Pg 283]
THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE.[653]
Come[654] live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and vallies, dales and fields,[655]
Woods or steepy mountain yields.[656]
And we will[657] sit upon the rocks,
Seeing[658] the shepherds feed their[659] flocks
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing[660] madrigals.[Pg 284]
And I will make thee beds of roses[661]
And[662] a thousand fragrant posies,
A cup of flowers and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
A gown[663] made of the finest wooll
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair-linèd[664] slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold.
A belt of straw and ivy-buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs;
An if these pleasures may thee move,
Come[665] live with me, and be my love.
The shepherd-swains[666] 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.
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THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE.

[Pg 282] [Pg 283]

THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE.[653]

Come[654] live with me and be my love,

And we will all the pleasures prove

That hills and vallies, dales and fields,[655]

Woods or steepy mountain yields.[656]

And we will[657] sit upon the rocks,

Seeing[658] the shepherds feed their[659] flocks

By shallow rivers to whose falls

Melodious birds sing[660] madrigals.[Pg 284]

And I will make thee beds of roses[661]

And[662] a thousand fragrant posies,

A cup of flowers and a kirtle

Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.

A gown[663] made of the finest wooll

Which from our pretty lambs we pull;

Fair-linèd[664] slippers for the cold,

With buckles of the purest gold.

A belt of straw and ivy-buds,

With coral clasps and amber studs;

An if these pleasures may thee move,

Come[665] live with me, and be my love.

The shepherd-swains[666] 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.

FOOTNOTES:

[653]This delightful pastoral song was first published, without the fourth and sixth stanzas, in The Passionate

Pilgrim , 1599. It appeared complete in England's Helicon , 1600, with Marlowe's name subscribed. By quoting

it in the Complete Angler , 1653, Izaak Walton has made it known to a world of readers.

[654]Omitted in P. P.

[655]So P. P.—E. H. "That vallies, groves, hills and fieldes."—Walton "That vallies, groves, or hils or fields."

[656]So E. H.—P. P. "And the craggy mountain yields."—Walton "Or, woods and steepie mountains yeelds."

[657]So E. H.—P. P. "There will we."—Walton "Where we will."

[658]So E. H.—P. P. and Walton "And see."

[659]So E. H. and P. P.—Walton "our."

[660]So P. P. and Walton.—E. H. "sings."

[661]So E. H. and Walton.—P. P. "There will I make thee a bed of roses."

[662]So E. H.—P. P. "With."—Walton "And then."

[663]This stanza is omitted in P. P.

[664]So E. H.—Walton "Slippers lin'd choicely."

[665]So E. H. and Walton.—P. P. "Then."—After this stanza there follows in the second edition of

the Complete Angler , 1655, an additional stanza:—

"Thy silver dishes for thy meat

As precious as the gods do eat,

Shall on an ivory table be

Prepar'd each day for thee and me."

[666]This stanza is omitted in P. P.—E. H. and Walton "The sheep-heards swaines."

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