The Passionate Shepherd to his

Love and The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd.

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Vocabulary Building

1. Ma_ri_a_s – 16th century love song or pastoral poem in the form of an unaccompanied song.

MADRIGALS

2. Po_i_s – bouquet; bunch of flowers.

POSIES

3. M_r_le – a woman’s garment that hangs from the waist.

MYRTLE

5. Ph_l_m_l – a Greek legend maiden whose tongue was slit and later changed into a nightingale.

PHILOMEL

6. W_n_on – meaningless; reckless; needless.

WANTON

7. Ga_l – rudeness; bravery

GALL

8. F_l_y – foolishness; madness; craziness

FOLLY

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields Woods or steepy mountain yields

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.

And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.

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

And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flower, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

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.

A gown made of the finest wool Which from our pretty lambs we pull; Fair lined slippers for the cold With buckles of the purest gold;

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

A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs; And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.

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

The shepherds' 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.

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.

Love is patient, Love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trust, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails but where there are prophecies, they will seize.

I Corinthian 13:4-8

1. What kind of love does the Shepherd have for the Nymph?

2. What kind of love does the Nymph is looking for?

3. If you were the Shepherd what will you do instead to show your love to the Nymph?

4. If you were the Nymph how will you respond to the kind of love that the Shepherd is offering?