E. H. and Walton.--P. P. "There will I make thee a bed of
roses."

[662] So E. H.--P. P. "With."--Walton "And then."

[663] This stanza is omitted in P. P.

[664] So E. H.--Walton "Slippers lin'd choicely."

[665] So E. H. and Walton.--P. P. "Then."--After this stanza there
follows in the second edition of the _Complete Angler_, 1655, an
additional stanza:--

"Thy silver dishes for thy meat
As precious as the gods do eat,
Shall on an ivory table be
Prepar'd each day for thee and me."

[666] This stanza is omitted in P. P.--E. H. and Walton "The
sheep-heards swaines."

[In _England's Helicon_ Marlowe's song is followed by the "Nymph's
Reply to the Shepherd" and "Another of the same Nature made since."
Both are signed _Ignoto_, but the first of these pieces has been
usually ascribed to Sir Walter Raleigh[667]--on no very substantial
grounds.]

THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD.

If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every Shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee, and be thy love.

Times drives the flocks from field to fold,
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold,
And Philomel becometh dumb,
The rest complains of cares to come.

The flowers do fade and wanton fields
To wayward winter reckoning yields;
A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses,
Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies,
Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten;
In folly ripe, in reason rotten.

Thy belt of straw and ivy buds,
Thy coral clasps and amber studs,
All these to me no means can move
To come to thee, and be thy love.

But could youth last and love still breed,
Had joys no date nor age no need,
Then these delights my mind might move
To live with thee, and be thy love.

FOOTNOTES:

[667] Oldys in his annotated copy (preserved in the British Museum) of
Langbaine's _Engl. Dram. Poets_, under the article _Marlowe_
remarks:--"Sir Walter Raleigh was an encourager of his [_i.e._
Marlowe's] Muse; and he wrote an answer to a Pastoral Sonnet of Sir
Walter's [_sic_], printed by Isaac Walton in his book of fishing." It
would be pleasant to think that Marlowe enjoyed Raleigh's patronage; but
Oldys gives no authority for his statement.

ANOTHER OF THE SAME NATURE MADE SINCE.