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To Phillis To Love And Live With Him

Live, live with me, and thou shalt

The pleasures I'll prepare for thee:

What sweets the country can

Shall bless thy bed, and bless thy board.

The soft sweet moss shall be thy bed,

With crawling woodbine over-spread:

By which the silver-shedding

Shall gently melt thee into dreams.

Thy clothing next, shall be a

Made of the fleeces' purest down.

The tongues of kids shall be thy meat;

Their milk thy drink; and thou shalt

The paste of filberts for thy

With cream of cowslips buttered:

Thy feasting-table shall be

With daisies spread, and daffodils;

Where thou shalt sit, and Red-breast by,

For meat, shall give thee melody.

I'll give thee chains and

Of primroses and violets.

A bag and bottle thou shalt have,

That richly wrought, and this as brave;

So that as either shall

The wearer's no mean shepherdess.

At shearing-times, and yearly wakes,

When Themilis his pastime makes,

There thou shalt be; and be the wit,

Nay more, the feast, and grace of it.

On holydays, when virgins

To dance the heys with nimble feet,

Thou shalt come forth, and then

The Queen of Roses for that year.

And having danced ('bove all the best)Carry the garland from the rest,

In wicker-baskets maids shall

To thee, my dearest shepherd ling,

The blushing apple, bashful pear,

And shame-faced plum, all simp'ring there.

Walk in the groves, and thou shalt

The name of Phillis in the

Of every straight and smooth-skin tree;

Where kissing that,

I'll twice kiss thee.

To thee a sheep-hook I will send,

Be-prank'd with ribbands, to this end,

This, this alluring hook might

Less for to catch a sheep, than me.

Thou shalt have possets, wassails fine,

Not made of ale, but spiced wine;

To make thy maids and self free mirth,

All sitting near the glitt'ring hearth.

Thou shalt have ribbands, roses, rings,

Gloves, garters, stockings, shoes, and

Of winning colours, that shall

Others to lust, but me to love.—These, nay, and more, thine own shall be,

If thou wilt love, and live with me.

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Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591–buried 15 October 1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperide…

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