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(15) Faire lined slippers for the cold: With buckles of the purest gold.

A belt of straw, and Iuie buds, With Corall clasps and Amber studs, And if these pleasures may thee moue, (20) Come liue with me and be my Loue.

The Shepheards Swaines shall dance and sing, For thy delight each May-morning, If these delights thy minde may moue; Then liue with me, and be my Loue.

FINIS. Chr. Marlow.

¶ The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard. +The last stanza was first printed anonymously and with the title ‘Loues answere’ in ‘Sonnets to sundry notes of Musicke’, The Passionate Pilgrime (1599), sig. D5v. Printed as a broadside ballad, see Ballad Tunes . Other copies are in: O: Rawl poet.148, c.1592-1602, fols. 96v-7; F: Z.e.28, 1599-1603, fol. 100v; O: Ashmole 1486, pt. 2, c. 1598, fol. 6v, in the hand of Simon Forman; ROS: 1083/15, c. 1600, pp. 57-8; F: V.a.169, part 2, fol. 2v. Author: ‘Ignoto’, sometimes attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh. Structure (May/Ringler): 24: 6×4 aa8

I F all the world and loue were young, And truth in euery Shepheards tongue, These pretty pleasures might me moue, To liue with thee, and be thy Loue.

(5) Time driues the Flockes from field to fold, When Riuers rage, and Rockes grow cold, And Philomell becommeth dombe, +The rest complaines of cares to come.