Judi Dench Recites Sonnet 116

 With such exquisite skill, Dame Judi Dench recites a remarkable sonnet: 

My favourite SONNET - 116 - performed by one of the finest purveyors of Shakespeare this country has ever produced - JUDI DENCH - who celebrates 90 Candles 🎂 today.

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— Michael Warburton (@TheMonologist) December 9, 2024

 

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:

O, 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.

                                                                    —William Shakespeare

To me, it is not unlike the 13th Chapter of the New Testament book of Corinthians.

Prove me wrong.