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What does hunger shall make thy modest zone and cheat fond death of all but bone mean in poem Come live me be my love?

The line "hunger shall make thy modest zone and cheat fond death of all but bone" from the poem "Come live with me and be my love" by Christopher Marlowe means that hunger will make the speaker's beloved humble and thin, and that even death will have nothing left to eat but her bones. This line is a warning to the speaker's beloved that if she does not accept his love, she will be left alone and destitute.

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