rccall@dartvax.UUCP (09/29/83)
I am posting this article again because it seems that uucp
had some trouble with it before.
The line "Come live with me and be my love" appears in two
poems, one by John Donne and one by Christopher Marlowe. In
Marlowe's poem, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", the stanza
is:
Come live with me, and be my love;
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.
-- and Donne wrote:
Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
Donne's poem is called "The Bait".
There is a similar line in "The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate
Shepherd" (an answer to Marlowe), by Sir Walter Ralegh (NOT
Sir Walter Raleigh):
If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee, and be thy love.
I hope that answers your question.