Hamlet, Act III. sc. 2.
Jacques. You are full of pretty answers: have you not been acquainted with goldsmiths’ wives, and conned them out of rings?—
As You Like It, Act III. sc. 2.
The following posies were transcribed by an indefatigable collector, from old wedding-rings, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The orthography is, in most cases, altered:—
Death never parts
Such loving hearts.
Love and respect
I do expect.
No gift can show
The love I owe.