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Nymph And Shepard Two Different Views on Love In Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” (682-3) a shepherd offers a nymph his love. He uses many pleasing things to entice her. He offers her gifts such as “beds of roses” (9) and “fair-lined slippers” (15) in exchange for her love. It seems as if he is trying the best he can to get her to be with him by offering her many material things. “Come live with me and be my love” (1) he says. In Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” (683-4) the nymph explains to the shepherd that she wants a love that will last indefinitely, not materials things that are temporary. It is apparent in “The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd” that the nymph feels she is too sophisticated and mature to accept what the shepherd has to offer her, and that she is willing to wait for something more serious and longer lasting. It is evident that the nymph is a little untrusting of the shepherd’s promises and that she feels he is less mature than her in the first stanza of “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd.” nymph, shepherd, things, love, offer, feels, material, last, time, soon, seems, reply, young, take, stanza, something, shows, shepherd’s, offers, offering, live, life, explaining, world, wither, willing, wait, very, two, truth, tongue, thy, thee, sophisticated