Sunday, May 25, 2008

Wedding
































































i. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
admit impediments. Love is not love
which alters when it alteration finds,
or bends with the remover to remove:
Oh, no! It is an ever-fixed mark.
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
it is the star to every wandering bark,
whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
within his bending sickle's compass come;
love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
but bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.


ii. from Love’s Labor’s Lost

But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,
Lives not alone immured in the brain;
But, with the motion of all elements,
Courses as swift as thought in every power,
And gives to every power a double power,


iii. from Hamlet

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.


iv. Exchange of Rings from several plays and Sonnet 88


One half of me is yours, the other half yours
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours.


Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.


Keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key.


You may kiss the bride





























































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