Samuel Webbe SATB, (vv. 1,3,5-6. Text variants shown in [])
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1 Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That hills and valleys, dales and fields, [That grove and valley, hill and field]
And all the steepy mountain yields. [Or woods and steepy mountains yield.]
2 There will we sit upon the rocks
And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
3 There will I make thee beds of roses
And [twine] a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle [rural kirtle]
Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.
4 A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull,
Fair linèd slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold.
5 A belt of straw and ivy buds
With coral clasps and amber studs: [A coral clasp…]
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come [Then] live with me and be my love.
6 The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May-morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my Love.