FOOTNOTES:

[753] Jones’s “Finger-Ring Lore,” 1877, p. 91.

[754] Wordsworth’s “Shakespeare and the Bible,” 1880, p. 283.

[755] See Jones’s “Finger-Ring Lore,” 1877, p. 372.

[756] See Jones’s “Finger-Ring Lore,” 1877, p. 88.

[757] See Sir Thomas Browne’s “Vulgar Errors.”

[758] Jones’s “Precious Stones,” 1880, p. 62.

[759] See Singer’s “Shakespeare,” vol. x. p. 213.

[760] A union is a precious pearl, remarkable for its size.

[761] See Jones’s “History and Mystery of Precious Stones,” p. 116.

[762] “Glossary,” p. 465.

[763] See C. W. King on “Precious Stones,” 1867, p. 267.

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