[646] So Dyce.--Old ed. "radge." (The original has "et incerto _discurrunt_ sidera motu.") [647] "Omnis an effusis miscebitur unda _venenis_."--Dyce suggests that Marlowe's copy read "pruinis." [648] The original has "Aquarius."--Ganymede was changed into the sign Aquarius: see Hyginus' _Poeticon Astron._ II. 29. [649] Claws. [650] A MÊnad.--Old ed. "MÊnus." [651] The original has "NubiferÊ." [652] Old ed. "hence." THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE. 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. 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-linËd[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."