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Title: Scottish Quaich - "Come Live With Me"
Material: Pewter
Size (approx): 85mm (internal diameter). 135mm including handles.
Origin: Handmade in Scotland

Handmade Scottish Pewter Quaich inscribed with the words of the English 16th Century Poet Christopher Marlowe. "Come live with me and be my love"

The full poem:

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.

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 posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

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

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.

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.

The handles and outside of the Quiach are decorated with a Celtic Interleave pattern.

Supplied in a lined card gift box.