Gold, chased, has been enamelled ✠ESPOIR. EN. DIEU. (English, late
sixteenth century.)
Gold, massive, ‘MY HART AND I UNTILL I DY.’ (English, late sixteenth
century.)
Gold, massive, ‘I LOVE AND LIKE MY CHOYSE.’ (English, early
seventeenth century.)
Silver gilt: within, ‘I CHUSE NOT TO CHANGE.’ (English, seventeenth
century.)
Gold, chased, traces of enamel, ✠Let. Reson. Rule. (English,
seventeenth century.)
Gold, chased, ‘Let reason rule affection.’ (English, seventeenth
century.)
Gold, chased, traces of black enamel, ‘A token of good-will.’
(English, seventeenth century.)
Brass, ‘Live in Loue.’ (English, seventeenth century.)
Rings with double-line posies:
Gold, ‘In God aboue and Christ his Sonne, We too are joyned both in
one.’ (English, seventeenth century.)
Gold, ‘Who feares the Lord are blest, wee see; Such thou and I God
grant may bee.’ (English, seventeenth century.)
Gold, ‘As I in thee have made my choyce, So in the Lord let vs
rejoice.’ 1637, W. D. A. (English, seventeenth century.)
Gold, ‘As I expect so let me find, A faithfull ♡ and constant mind.’
(English, seventeenth century.)
Gold, ‘I like my choyce, so will. . . .’ the remainder obliterated.
(English, seventeenth century.)
Gold, chasing worn away, ‘Tho’ little, accept it,’ letters black
enamelled. (English, early eighteenth century.)
Gold, chased with representation of skeleton, cross-bones, and
hour-glass encircling the hoop; has been enamelled black, ‘You and I
will lovers dye.’ (English, about 1720.)
Gold, ‘Fear the Lord and rest content, So shall we live and not
repent. B. W. 1730.’ (English, eighteenth century.)
Gold, chased, inscribed within ‘T. Rowe, C. obt. 13 May, 1715, æt.
28.’ Worn by Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe, the poetess.
Gold, overlaid with open-work pattern of flowers in coloured enamel,
‘Rite to requite.’ (English, eighteenth century.)
Silver, two hands holding a heart, ‘Love and feare God.’ (English,
eighteenth century.)
Gold, massive, ‘Virtus est pretiosa gemma. Auribus frequentius quam
linguâ utere.’ Outside, in Gothic letters, ‘Voluptate capiuntur
homines non minus quam hamo pisces.’ (Modern English.)
A double-line gold wedding-ring in the collection of Mr. J. W. Singer
bears the words:
Them which God copleth
Let no man put them asonder.
This ring is a very early sixteenth-century one, and shows that
wedding-rings were not, formerly, the plain ones of the present day, but
were ornamented with fine work. Mr. Singer has several rings of this
description, ornamented in the same way.
Je sui ici en liu dami (Je suis ici en lieu d’ami).
No treasure like a treu friend. (Eighteenth century.)
Not to but on, till life be gon.
Correct our ways; Love all our dayes.
Hearts united live contented.
No cut to unkindness.
Conceave consent, confirme content.
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