J.P. - Livre d'heures d'Henry VIII (c.1500)

Une image et des mots. Une illustration du peintre et enlumineur tourangeau Jean Poyer (1445-1503) et, pour aller avec, le Sonnet 116 de William Shakespeare.

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-fixèd mark 

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wand'ring 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.