"To bed my Love; Hymen will punish us For being slack performers of his rites."
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Beaumont and Fletcher, The Maid's Tragedy, act II, Amintor to Evadne
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Hymen (god)
Hymen (Ancient Greek: Ὑμήν), Hymenaios or Hymenaeus, in , is a god of marriage ceremonies who inspires feasts and song. Related to the god's name, a hymenaios is a genre of that was sung during the procession of the bride to the groom's house in which the god is addressed, in contrast to the , which is sung at the nuptial threshold. He is one of the winged love gods, the .
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