That it may not fall from them. ’Tis a token

Of a beloved friend, who is no more.

Vic. How? dead?

Pre. Yes; dead to me; and worse than dead.

He is estrang’d! And yet I keep this ring.

I will rise with it from my grave hereafter,

To prove to him that I was never false.

Vic. (aside.) Be still, my swelling heart! one moment still!

Why ’tis the folly of a love-sick girl.

Come, give it me, or I will say ’tis mine,