To teach my tongue to be so long: XX. Live with me and be my love', There will we sit upon the rocks, There will I make thee a bed of roses, A belt of straw and ivy buds, LOVE'S ANSWER. If that the world and love were young, 8 Live with me and be my love,] This poem, here incomplete, and what is called "Love's Answer," still more imperfect, may be seen at length in Percy's “Reliques,” vol. i. p. 237. They belong to Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh: the first is assigned by name to Marlowe in "England's Helicon," 1600, (sign. A 2) and the last appears in the same collection, under the name of Ignoto, which was a signature sometimes adopted by Sir Walter Raleigh. They are, besides, assigned to both these authors in Walton's "Angler" (p. 149. edit. 1808) under the titles of "The milk-maid's song," and "The Milk-maid's Mother's answer." As it fell upon a day' XXI. In the merry month of May, Senseless trees they cannot hear thee, King Pandion he is dead, All thy friends are lapp'd in lead, All thy fellow birds do sing, Careless of thy sorrowing'. XXII. Whilst as fickle fortune smil'd', 9 As it fell upon a day] This poem is contained in R. Barnfield's "Encomion of Lady Pecunia," 1598. It is also inserted in "England's Helicon," 1600, (H. 2) under the signature of Ignoto; but as Barnfield reprinted it as his in 1605, there can be little doubt that he was the author of it. 1 Which a GROVE of myrtles made,] Some modern editors state, that in "England's Helicon," 1600,"grove" is printed group: the fact is otherwise; the mistake having arisen from not consulting the original edition of that poetical miscellany: it is group in the reprint of “England's Helicon" in 1812. 2 Careless of thy sorrowing.] " England's Helicon" here adds this couplet :"Even so, poor bird, like thee, None alive will pity me." 3 Whilst as fickle fortune smil'd,] This is the last poem in " The Passionate VOL. VIII. PP Every one that flatters thee Words are easy, like the wind; They have him at commandement ; THE PHENIX AND TURTLE'. Let the bird of loudest lay, To whose sound chaste wings obey. Pilgrim," 1599. It is a separate production, both in subject and place, with a division between it and Barnfield's poem, which precedes it: nevertheless they have been incautiously coupled in some modern editions. or Rosalin's The Phoenix and Turtle.] This poem is printed, as we have given it, with the name of Shakespeare, in Robert Chester's "Love's Martyr, Complaint," 1601. It occurs near the end, among what are called on the titlepage "new Compositions of several modern Writers, whose names are scribed to their several Works." sub But thou shrieking harbinger, To this troop come thou not near. From this session interdict Every fowl of tyrant wing, Let the priest in surplice white, And thou, treble-dated crow, Here the anthem doth commence : So they lov'd, as love in twain Hearts remote, yet not asunder; So between them love did shine, Property was thus appall'd, |