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AS YOU LIKE IT: A WEDLOCK HYMN by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WEDDING IS GREAT JUNO'S CROWN
Last Line: TO HYMEN, GOD OF EVERY TOWN!
Subject(s): WEDDING SONG; EPITHALAMIUM;
Wedding is great Juno's crown:
O blessed bond of board and bed!
'Tis Hymen peoples every town:
High wedlock then be honouréd:
Honour, high honour and renown,
To Hymen, god of every town!



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