The Maiden's Answer

Marlowe’s ‘The Passionate Shepherd to his Love’ ‘ Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove,’ see about this poem... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Maiden’s Answer I’ll come with thee and pledge my life if ye will take me for thy wife for I, a maid, must have me wed ere any man come to my bed My gown will be of watered silk rich pearly white like new drawn milk Soft satin slippers for my shoon with tiny buttons all aroun’ A silver belt will gird my waist bedecked with rosebuds, white and chaste and o’er my head, a cap of lace with bridal veil to shield my face And ye must build a fragrant bower amid the thyme and gillyflower Lay springy heather for my bed and soft green rushes at my head. Then I will come to thee and lie beneath the shield of parchment sky Upon the day ye marry me I’ll be thy love and live with thee Shoon--shoes