To which he receives an answer—
Ay, and a posie:
Annulus hic nobis, quod sic uterque, dabit.
He exclaims:
————Good!
This ring will give you what you both desire;
I’ll make the whole house chant it, and the parish.
The following illustration represents a posy-ring of the simplest form, such as would be in use in the early part of the seventeenth century.
Posy-ring.
Herrick, in his ‘Hesperides,’ says:
What posies for our wedding-rings,
What gloves we’ll give and ribbonings!