Come life with me and be my love
and we will all the pleasures prove
That hiles and valleys, dales and
Fields, and all the steepy mountains
Yields
And we will sit upon rocks,
Seeing the shepherd's 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 poises,
A cap of flower/s and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
A gown made of the finest wool
which from our pretty lambs we pull,
far lined slippers from 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 life with me and be my love.
Thy silver dishes for thy meat,
as precious as the gods do eat,
shall on an Ivory table be prepared
each day for thee and me
The shepherds swains shall dance
and sing for thy delight each may
morning; if theses delights thy mind
may move, then live with me, and
be my love.
