Who Ever Loved That Loved Not

From the First Sestiad of Hero and Leander (1598), Marlowe's unfinished narrative poem based on a sixth-century Greek poem by Musaeus. The line appears in a passage arguing that love is ruled by fate rather than deliberate choice. William Shakespeare was so struck by the line that he quoted it verbatim in As You Like It (Act 3, Scene 5), where the shepherdess Phoebe prefaces it with "Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might" — an elegy for Marlowe, who had been killed in 1593.