Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is a pastoral poem, a poetic kind that concerns itself with the simple life of country folk and describes that life in stylized, idealized terms

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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564, the year of William Shakespeare's birth. He is the eldest son of a shoemaker. At 23, he went to London and became one of the most important dramatist before William Shakespeare. Marlowe worked on tragedy and he wrote four important plays developing tragedy as a dramatic form. Being an atheist, he was arrested for an unknown offense. Marlowe was killed in 1593 in a tavern fight. He and his friend argued over the bill and then he was killed by his friend with a knife. Some say that it may be an assassination. Marlowe died at the age of twenty-nine, and it is interesting that at this time Shakespeare was just beginning his dramatic career. Marlowe was the first one to use blank verse that encourage Shakespeare to try it. Marlowe was also the first to write a tragedy in English, again paving the way for Shakespeare.

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Come live with me and be my love

And we will all the pleasure prove

That Valleys, , hills, and fields,

Woods, or  mountain yields.

Come live with me and be my love. We will try all the pleasure offered by valleys, roves, woods and mountains.

And we will sit upon the rocks,

Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,

By shadow rivers to whose falls

Melodious birds sing .

I want us to sit upon the rocks with shallow rivers falling under our feet, seeing those shepherds far away feeding their sheep, and hearing birds sing beautifully around us.

And I will make thee beds if roses

And a thousand fragrant ,

A cap of flowers, and a

 all with leaves of myrtle;

And I will use roses to make beds decorated with a thousand sweet-smelling posies for you to lie. I will weave a flower cap, and make you kirtle fringed with myrtle leaves.

A  made of he finest wool

Which from our pretty lambs we pull;

Fair lined slippers for the cold,

With  of the purest gold;

Join now!

We pull out of the finest wool from our lambs to make a pretty gown. And a pair of high-qualited slippers will be made for you, to keep you from being cold. On the slippers I will put buckles, which was made of purest gold.

A belt of straw and  buds,

With clasps and  ;

And if these pleasures may thee move,

Come live with me and be my love.

Also, I will make you a belt of straw and ivy buds with coral clasps and amber studs. If these pleasure may touch your heart, come live with me and ...

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