Nosce teipsum.
Think on mee.
Desire and deserve.
As God hath appointed
Soe I am contented.
(These are given from wills of the seventeenth century in the glossary appended to ‘Fabric Rolls of York Minster,’ published by the Surtees Society.)
Ever last
(on the rings given at the funeral of John Smith, Alderman of London, who ‘made a great game by musk catts which he kept’).
Redime tempus
(on the rings given at the funeral of Samuel Crumbleholme, Master of St. Paul’s).