72 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



That valleys, proves, or hills, or field. 

 Or woods and steepy mountains yield 



Where we will sit upon the rocks. 

 And see the Shepherds feed our flocks 



By shallow rivers, to whose falls 

 Jilelodious birds sing madrigals. 



And I will make thee beds of roses 

 And then a thousand fragrant posies, 

 A cap of flowers, and a kirtle 

 Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle. 



A gown made of the finest wool. 

 Which from our pretty lambs we pull ; 



Warburton and others to think it Sliakspeare's ; and, indeed, it was pub- 

 lished as his. But that play was first published in 1602, and this song is 

 ascribed to Marlow in " England's Helicon,'' 1600, seven years after Mar- 

 low's death, in very nearly the same words as in our text. In Marlow's 

 " Jew of Malta," written before 1193, these lines occur : — 



" Thou in whose groves by Dis above. 

 Shall live with me and be my love." 



But that play was not published until 1633 ; and in " The Passionate Pil- 

 grime and Sonnets, to sundry notes of Musicke, by Mr. William Shak- 

 speare," printed for W. Jaggard, 1599, a copy of this madrigal, contain- 

 ing only four verses (the fourth and fifth being wanting), appears, accom- 

 panied by the first verse of the answer. Shakspeare, however, was noto- 

 riously careless of his pieces, and this last publication may not have had 

 his authority. The song passed for Marlow's with his contemporaries ; 

 and with Dr. Johnson, Percy, and others, I incline to think it his. 

 There may have been an older song with tlie same line, " Come live 

 with me and be my love," which the writer of the song in the text imi- 

 tated, as Dr. Donne did this in his poem called " The Bait," and Her- 

 rick in his •' Live, live with me" (Hesperides, Vol. I., 269, ed. 1S2')). 

 There is a ballad entitled " Queen Elinor," to the tune of " Come live 

 with me and be my love," printed in Delancy's " Strange Histories, or 

 Songs and Sonnets," 1G07 ; and Nicholas Breton, in his " Foste ivith a 

 Packet of Mad Letters," 1637, speaks of the old song, " Come live with 

 me and be my love," as sung by the " blacke browes with the cherrie 

 cheeke under the side of the pide-cowe." The old music will be found 

 in the appendix, as also Herrick's imitation. Walton, it is to be ob- 

 served, inserted the sixth verse in the second and subsequent editions of 

 his Angler, which is not in good keeping with the pastoral simplicity of 

 the rest. — JVicholas, Percy, Hawkins, Washbourne'a Edition of the 

 Angler, &.C., collated by Am. Ed. 



