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  1. #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."