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(15) With the sound of my out-cryes, moue her to pittie?

The deepe falls of fayre Riuers, and the windes turning: Are the true musique giuers, (20) vnto my mourning.

Where my flocks daily feeding, pining for sorrow: At their maisters hart bleeding, shot with Loues arrow.

(25) From her eyes to my hart-string, was the shaft launced: It made all the woods to ring, by which it glaunced.

When this Nimph had vsde me so, (30) then she did hide her: Haplesse I did Daphne know; haplesse I spyed her.

Thus Turtle-like I waild me, for my loues loosing: (35) Daphnes trust thus did faile me, woe worth such chusing.

FINIS. M. H. Nowell.

¶ The passionate Sheepheard to his loue. +first printed anonymously and without title in ‘Sonnets to sundry notes of Musicke’, The Passionate Pilgrime (1599), sigs. D5-5v; the editor of England’s Helicon is the first to attribute it to Marlowe in print, add a title and two stanzas. For detailed discussion of the poem’s circulation, see Forsyth (1925). The first line of this lyric gives its name to a ballad tune and was printed as a broadside ballad, see see Ballad Tunes . Other copies are in: F: Z.e.28, 1599-1603, fol. 100v; O: Ashmole 1486, pt. 2, c. 1598, fol. 6v, in the hand of Simon Forman; O: Rawl poet 148, c. 1592-1602, fol. 96v; ROS: 1083/15, c. 1600, pp. 57-8; H: PML: Rulers of England, Elizabeth I, no. 48, c. 1600, s.sh; later texts: F:V.a.169, part 2, fols. 2-2v; NLW: Sotheby MS. B2, fols. 76-6v. Imitated by ‘Another of the same, made since.’ * Author: Christopher Marlowe. Structure (May/Ringler): 24: aa8

C Ome liue with mee, and be my loue, And we will all the pleasures proue, That Vallies, groues, hills and fieldes, Woods, or steepie mountaine yeeldes.