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Live with me and be my love

DMI number:
37273
First Line:
Live with me and be my love
Last Line:
To live with thee and be thy love
Poem Genre / Form:
Dialogue, Lyric, and Quatrain aabb
Themes:
Love and Nature
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Author:
Christopher Marlowe
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Forster (1980): 58.
Author:
Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
Thomas Percy notes that 'Upon the whole I am inclined to attribute them [the lines] to Marlow, and Raleigh'. It is as much a speculation now, as it was then, as to who was the author of this popular poem.
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Content/Publication
Title:
Reliques of ancient English poetry [Dublin] [Vol 1] [T83734] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
pp.171-173
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X. The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
Attribution:
Marlow, and Raleigh
Attributed To:
Christopher Marlowe
Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
Title:
Reliques of ancient English poetry [London and Frankfurt] [Vol 1] [T84265] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
pp.182-183
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X. The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
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Marlow, and Raleig
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Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
Title:
Reliques of ancient English poetry [Vol 1] [T84936] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
pp.200-202
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X The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
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Attributed To:
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Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]