Francis T. Palgrave, ed. (1824–1897). The Golden Treasury. 1875.
William Shakespeare XXIII. Mans LoveL
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:—
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.
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out ev’n to the edge of doom:—
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.