... it says in the first two opening lines: "Come live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove" He, the narrator tries to persuade his mistress by being very forthright and by being very bold, telling her what he is going to give her. However, in Donne's poem, which is parody of Marlowe's, Donne has the same two opening lines but the last two of the first stanza are very different. "...Of golden sands, and crystal brooks With silken lines, and silver hooks." The difference here is that Donne says that we will go to the countryside but instead of looking at valleys, mountains and hills which is what Marlowe says, he and his mistress will have a lot of fun. In Marlowe's poem he says, "And I will make thee beds of roes And a thousand fragrant poises, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroided all with ...

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