quote · Words worth keeping
Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.
Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- William Shakespeare
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 1590 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint; not necessarily a composition date.
The voice behind the words.
Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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