My soul will keep thine company to heaven.
Mr. Singer informs me that his early pre-Reformation wedding-rings have the motto prefaced with a cross, and, as this died out, the remains of a cross, in a kind of rude star, sometimes carried on between each word.
Mr. Singer has one bronze wedding-ring with a motto, found in Wiltshire, but numerous silver ones.
Ma vie et mon amour
Finiront en un jour.
Dieu nous unisse
Pour son service.
Seconde moi pour te rendre heureuse.
Nos deux cœurs sont unis.
En ma fidélité je finirai ma vie.
Domine dirige nos.
Let us agree.
Continue constant.
My love is true
To none but you.
The gift is small,
But love is all.
In God and thee
My joy shall be.
Let not absence banish love.
Love in thee is my desire.
Whear this i giue
I wish to liue.
Let vs loue
Like turtle doue.
God saw thee
Most fit for me
(on the wedding-ring of the wife of John Dunton, the bookseller).