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 MICHAEL DRAYTON

Thy Voyages attend. Industrious Hakluyt,

Whose reading shall inflame Men to seek fame, And much commend To after times thy wit.

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131 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 'OME live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Or woods or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks, And see the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses And 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; Fair-lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold.

A belt of straw and ivy-buds With coral clasps and amber studs. And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.

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