Sep 7, 2008
Wedding is great Juno’s crown,- 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.
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!
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