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.
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.
- Source
- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd.
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- attributed · historical anthology
Preserved as printed; independently unverified. - Historical coordinate
- c. 1585 AD · renaissance
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- Public domain (United States)
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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