Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That valleys, groves, hills and fields,
Woods or steepy mountains yields.
And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
And I will make thee beds of roses,
And a thousand fragrant...
It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is overruled by fate.
When two are stripped, long ere the course begin,
We wish that one should love, the other win;
And one especially do we affect
Of two gold ingots, like in each respect:
The reason no man knows, let it suffice,
What we behold is censured by our eyes.
Where both deliberate, the...
Viens vivre avec moi, viens sois mes amours,
Et nous goûterons plaisirs tous les jours,
Que peuvent donner bosquets ou vallées
Ou monts escarpés, ou bois ou feuillées;
Nous nous assiérons au pic des rochers,
Et lors nous verrons de loin les bergers,
À leurs beaux troupeaux donner la pâture
Et les doux oiseaux chanter la nature.
Et je te ferai...
From “Hero and Leander”
IT lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is over-ruled by fate.
When two are stript long e’er the course begin,
We wish that one should lose, the other win;
And one especially do we affect
Of two gold ingots, like in each respect:
The reason no man knows; let it suffice,
What we behold is...
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
Woods or craggy mountains yield.
And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
And will I make thee beds of roses,
...
From “Tamburlaine”
TAMBURLAINE.—But now, my boys, leave off and list to me,
That mean to teach you rudiments of war:
I ’ll have you learn to sleep upon the ground,
March in your armor through watery fens,
Sustain the scorching heat and freezing cold,
Hunger and thirst, right adjuncts of the war,
And after this to scale a castle wall,...
From the First Sestiad of “Hero and Leander”
ON Hellespont, guilty of true love’s blood,
In view and opposite two cities stood,
Sea-borderers, disjoined by Neptune’s might;
The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight.
At Sestos Hero dwelt; Hero the fair,
Whom young Apollo courted for her hair,
And offered as a dower his burning throne,
...
Nem vagy ura, hogy gyűlölj vagy szeress,
mert vágyad vize hajt, s az végzetes.
Ha két futó feszeng verseny előtt,
te választasz már vesztest vagy nyerőt.
S ha két egyforma aranyrúd világít,
úgy érzed, az egyik szebben világlik.
Szemünkön át hatol belénk a villám:
a vágy, hiába töprengünk a titkán.
A habozás csak a szerelem árnya;
...
