[851:1] With this ring I thee wed, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.—Book of Common Prayer, according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America.
[851:2] This is derived from a Latin antiphon, said to have been composed by Notker, a monk of St. Gall, in 911, while watching some workmen building a bridge at Martinsbrücke, in peril of their lives. It forms the ground-work of Luther's antiphon "De Morte."
TATE AND BRADY.[851:3]
Untimely grave.
Psalm vii.
And though he promise to his loss,
He makes his promise good.
Psalm xv. 5.
The sweet remembrance of the just