The following song, which is quoted in "The Merry Wives of Windsor," has been ascribed to Shakespeare on the authority of the publisher of a collection of small poems, entitled, "The Passionate Pilgrim, and Sonnets to sundry notes of music, by William Shakespeare: London, printed for W. Jaggard, 1599." Jaggard, however, is not an authority to be relied upon, for although his collection contains many of Shakespeare's genuine productions, it also includes several pieces which are not his. In an enlarged edition, published in 1602, he added two pieces written by Thomas Heywood, who complains of the circumstance in his " Apology for Actors." Izaak Walton ascribes it to Marlowe under the character of" that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlowe;" and England's Helicon contains a poem "In imitation of C. Marlowe," beginning thus, "Come live with me and be my dear." This imitation was written by Sir Walter Raleigh, who also wrote " The Nymph's Reply," to Marlowe's song. Marlowe himself quotes the first line of his song in the Jew of Malta,' Act iv. Scene 4.

SONG.

"Come, live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,

That grove or valley, hill or field,

Or wood and steepy mountain yield.

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

Pleas'd will I make thee beds of roses,
And twine a thousand fragrant posies;
A cap of flowers, and rural kirtle,
Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.
A jaunty gown of finest wool,

Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
And shoes lin'd choicely for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold.

A belt of straw, and ivy buds,

With coral clasps, and amber studs;
If these, these pleasures can thee move,
To live with me, and be my love."

"England's Parnassus" contains many quotations from Marlowe. In addition to those extracted from the works now collected, we find the following description :

"I walk along a stream for pureness rare,
Brighter than sun-shine; for it did acquaint
The dullest sight with all the glorious prey,
That in the pebble-paved channel lay.
No molten chrystal, but a richer mine;
Even Nature's rarest alchymy ran thère,
Diamonds resolv'd, and substance more divine,

Through whose bright gliding current might appear

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A thousand naked nymphs, whose ivory shine
Enamelling the bands, made them more dear
Than ever was that glorious palace gate,
Where the day shining sun in triumph sat.
Upon this brim, eglantine and rose,
The tamorisk, olive, and the almond tree,
As kind companions in one union grows,
Folding their twining arms, as oft we see
Turtle-taught lovers either other close,
Lending to dullness feeling sympathy;
And as a costly vallance o'er a bed,

So did their garland tops the brook o'erspread;
Their leaves that differed both in shape and show
(Though all were green) yet difference such in green
Like to the checkered bent of Iris bow,

Prided the running main as it had been."

Four lines which appear familiar to us, although we cannot recollect from what source they are derived, are contained in the same collection, and are ascribed to Marlowe. They are not extracted from any of the plays in the present edition.

The rites

In which Love's beauteous empress most delights,
Are banquets, Doric music, midnight revelling,
Plays, masks and all that stern age counteth evil.

CERTAIN

OF

OVID'S ELEGIES:

BY

C. MARLOWE.

Certaine of Ovid's Elegies, by C. Marlowe. At Middlebourgh. 8vo. [no date.]

Marlowe's translations from Ovid are seldom to be met with. A small edition of twenty-five copies was lately printed for private circulation, and from it the present reprint has been taken.