Famous Quotes | Wedding is great Juno’s...

Wedding is great Juno’s crown,
O blessed bond of board and bed!
‘Tis Hymen peoples every town,
High wedlock then be honorèd.
Honor, high honor, and renown
To Hymen, god of every town!
- William Shakespeare
Attribution: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Hymen, in As You Like It, act 5, sc. 4, l. 141-6. Hymen means god of marriage, and Juno, queen of the gods, also protected marriage.

Categories: Dramatist, Marriage, People

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