"Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments..."-Explain.

These lines are taken from Shakespeare's sonnet 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds', celebrates the poet's high regard of love.

       In the opening of sonnet 116, Shakespeare alludes to the Marriage service in the Book of Common Prayers and he refers to the marriage ritual. In the Christian Marriage ritual, before the union of the bride and the bridegroom, the marriage -priest enquires of the congregation about the probable impediment which anyone in the assemblage and might have had.

        The sonnet eulogizes the lofty attributes of true love. True love does not permit any sort of obstruction or obstacle in the attachment of two lovers. The poet emphasizes the immutability of love that nothing can shake or change. True love can never be dominated by any situation. Time moves very fast and changes different elements, but love remains constant and devoted. In fact, it persists and shines, despite the swift flow of time.