#February 6, 1564
#OTD Christopher "Kit" Marlowe, English Elizabethan #Poet & "Writer, is born.

He died young at 29 - from a stabbing in a bar fight.

His #Poem, "A Bed of Roses," was published posthumously in 1599.

"Come live with me & be my #Love,
& we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, & fields,
#Woods or steepy mountain yields.

& I will make thee beds of #Roses
& a thousand fragrant #Posies,
A cap of #Flowers, & a #Kirtle
Embroidered all with #Leaves of #Myrtle."