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Come live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove
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“Come live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove”

Christopher Marlowe

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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
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1599
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Meaning of “Come live with me, and be my love;…”

Marlowe’s pastoral speaker invites a beloved into an idealized rural life built from pleasure, beauty and imagined abundance.

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“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” represented in Project Gutenberg #20356. The lyric survives through early printed witnesses and is a pastoral invitation by a poetic speaker; its promises are literary fantasy rather than a factual description of rural life.

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