{"id":"01KG6S6WB4GHSRS0N6KKQB59HK","cid":"bafkreigfsykbke3f2wndi3vbcxztvacsghfspiluaq6icvdmu6kl4dlip4","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":7573,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:48.288Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 21","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":7551,"text":"In his *Poste with a packet of Mad Letters*, 1637, 4to, Nicholas Breton attests the continuance of the piece’s popularity:—‘You shall heare the old song that you were wont to like well of, sung by the black browses with the cherrie-cheeke, under the side of the pide-cowe: ‘Come, live with me, and be my love’: you know the rest, and so I rest.’\n\n<!-- [Page 326](arke:01KG6QFYFJDN5R6BGEDF7B1B9S) -->\nTHE PASSIONATE PILGRIM 37\n\nwhich the lyric was sung was very popular and still survives. A contemporary manuscript version, found by Sir John Hawkins, is given in Johnson and Steevens’ edition of Shakespeare (ed. 1793, vol. iii, p. 402). A ballad, entitled ‘Queen Elinor’, which is printed in a contemporary anthology, *Strange Histories, or Songes and Sonets* (assigned to the ballad writer Thomas Deloney), has the heading ‘To the tune of come live with me and be my love’, and the air is given in the 1602 edition of the work now at Britwell.¹ One of the ‘Lessons for the Lyra Viole’ in a music-book of the day, Corkine’s *Second book of Ayres*, 1612, has, as its heading, the first line of the song; only the musical notes follow (G 2 recto–H recto).\n\nThe four-line stanza which follows ‘Come live with me’ in *The Passionate Pilgrim*, and is called by Jaggard ‘Loues answere’, also reappears in *England’s Helicon*. It is printed there with a single textual variation: *England’s Helicon* reads in line 1 ‘If all the world’, instead of ‘If that the world’; but there are added five new stanzas and the whole is entitled ‘The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd’. In the printed type the initials ‘S. W. R.’ (i.e. ‘Sir Walter Raleigh’) are attached, but these letters were pasted over with a blank slip of paper in most published copies of *England’s Helicon*, perhaps in deference to some exceptional protest on Sir Walter’s part to the unauthorized inclusion of the piece in the anthology.\n\nTo this pair of poems further interest attaches from their quotation (with some original additions) by Izaak Walton’s quotations.\n\n¹ The 1607 edition, which the Percy Society reprinted, mentions the tune (p. 28) without the musical notation. Several contemporary ballads in the Roxburghe Collection are described as written ‘To the Tune of Live with me’ (cf. Roxburghe Collection, ed. Chappell, i. 162–3, 205). Marlowe’s lyric (in six stanzas) appeared as a broadside, headed ‘A most Excellent Ditty of the Lover’s promises to his beloved To a sweet new Tune called Live with me &amp;c be my Love’, together with Raleigh’s reply under the title ‘The Ladies prudent Answer to her Love To the same Tune’ (ibid. ii. 3).\n\n<!-- [Page 327](arke:01KG6QFYFXDAW9HW2C604M42XX) -->\n38\nTHE PASSIONATE PILGRIM\n\nWalton in the second chapter of his *Compleat Angler* (1653, pp. 66–7). Walton heads the first song ‘The Milkmaid’s Song’ and describes it as ‘that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlowe now at least 50 years ago’. Walton’s version resembles that in *England’s Helicon*, but to the six stanzas which figure there he added in the second (not in the first) edition of his *Compleat Angler* a seventh of his own invention.\n\nThe ‘Answer’, which Walton also cited in his *Compleat Angler*, he drew from *England’s Helicon*, and gave it the new title ‘The Milkmaid’s Mother’s Answer’. In the second edition of his *Compleat Angler* he added as in the former case a seventh stanza. Of the second poem Walton wrote that it ‘was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days’. The two pieces, Walton adds, ‘were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good’.\n\nNo. XII.\n","title":"Chunk 21"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S4FQ9B05TDSVW2G3VD6WR","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S6WB4VHRYF874HP9S0KJQ","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG6S6WB1DDGRXRXFRKW8T5EV","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:52.580Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:24:57.371Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}