{"id":4003,"date":"2011-02-26T06:43:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T10:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2011-02-11T00:14:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T04:14:19","slug":"come-live-with-me-and-be-my-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4003","title":{"rendered":"Come Live With Me and Be My Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SylvanCourt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4004\" title=\"SylvanCourt\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SylvanCourt.jpg\" alt=\"SylvanCourt\" width=\"441\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SylvanCourt.jpg 700w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SylvanCourt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SylvanCourt-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the imagery isn\u2019t exactly appropriate for the weather, I post this verse and accompanying painting in honor of the\u00a0baptismal date (his actual birthdate is unknown) of\u00a0Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), poet, playwright, freethinker, and influential contemporary of Shakespeare. Anyway, March is just around the corner, so pretty lambs and melodious birds cannot be far off.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of Marlowe\u2019s successful career, yawning gaps in the biographical record, and early mysterious death in a tavern brawl have led to much speculation about his love life, religious views, and supposed alternate career as a government spy. I can\u2019t think why his story hasn\u2019t yet been made into a swashbuckling PBS mini-series.<\/p>\n<address>Come live with me and be my love,<\/address>\n<address>And we will all the pleasures prove<\/address>\n<address>That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,<\/address>\n<address>Woods or steepy mountain yields.<\/address>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<address>And we will sit upon the rocks,<\/address>\n<address>Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,<\/address>\n<address>By shallow rivers to whose falls<\/address>\n<address>Melodious birds sing madrigals.<\/address>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<address>And I will make thee beds of roses<\/address>\n<address>And a thousand fragrant posies,<\/address>\n<address>A cap of flowers, and a kirtle<\/address>\n<address>Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;<\/address>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<address>A gown made of the finest wool<\/address>\n<address>Which from our pretty lambs we pull;<\/address>\n<address>Fair lined slippers for the cold,<\/address>\n<address>With buckles of th purest gold;<\/address>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<address>A belt of straw and ivy buds,<\/address>\n<address>With coral clasps and amber studs:<\/address>\n<address>And if these pleasures may thee move,<\/address>\n<address>Come live with me and be my love.<\/address>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<address>The shepherds\u2019 swains shall dance and sing<\/address>\n<address>For thy delight each May morning:<\/address>\n<address>If these delights thy mind may move,<\/address>\n<address>Then live with me and be my love.<\/address>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014Christopher Marlowe<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The painting above was created for the <a href=\"http:\/\/barnesandhampton.com\/discography.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">cover of a CD, <\/span><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/barnesandhampton.com\/discography.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">The Sylvan Court<\/span><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the imagery isn\u2019t exactly appropriate for the weather, I post this verse and accompanying painting in honor of the\u00a0baptismal date (his actual birthdate is unknown) of\u00a0Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), poet, playwright, freethinker, and influential contemporary of Shakespeare. Anyway, March is just around the corner, so pretty lambs and melodious birds cannot be far off. 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