Continue constant. My love is true To none but you. The gift is small, But love is all. In God and thee My joy shall be. Let not absence banish love. Love in thee is my desire. Whear this i giue I wish to liue. Let vs loue Like turtle doue. God saw thee Most fit for me (on the wedding-ring of the wife of John Dunton, the bookseller). God did decree this unitie. Where hearts agree, there God will be. I have obtained whom God ordained. Virtue passeth riches. No force can move affixed Love. Vnited hartes Death only partes. Liue, loue, and be happie. The love is true that I O U. My love is fixt, I will not range. I like my choice too well to change. This is the thing I wish to win. Well projected if accepted. God thought fitt this knott to knitt. A loving wife prolongeth life. Let virtue be a guide to thee. Thy Desart hath won my hearte. Death only partes two loving heartes. * B * TRVE * IN * HARTE *. True loue is lye to man and wye. (True love is life to man and wife.) Lett Death leade loue to rest. To Bodys on harte. Good will is aboue Gould. True love is the bond of peace. A virtuous wife preserveth life. Let our contest bee who loves best. No chance prevents the Lord’s intents. I joy in thee, joy thou in me. And this also will pass away. Fear God, honour the Prince, Lye still Joan, and don’t wince. If thee dosn’t work, thee shasn’t eat. (From Monmouthshire.) From the ‘Card of Courtship; or, The Language of Love, fitted to the Humours of all Degrees, Sexes, and Conditions,’ 1653: Thou art my star, be not irregular. Without thy love I backward move. Thine eyes so bright are my chief delight. This intimates the lover’s states. My life is done when thou art gone. This hath no end, my sweetest friend. Our loves be so, no ending know. Love and joye can never cloye. The pledge I prove of mutuall love. I love the rod and thee and God. 1646. All I refuse, but thee I chuse. Gift and giver, your servants ever. Non mœchaberis. Tuut mon coer. Mulier viro subjecta esto. Sans departir à nul autre. Tout mon cuer avez. Lel ami avet. Par ce present ami aumer rent. (By this gift to love me given.) Let Reason rule. J’aime mon choix. À vous à jamais. Je suis content. L’amour nous unit. Je suis content, j’ai mon désir. Je vous aime d’un amour extrême. Ce que Dieu conjoint, l’homme ne le sépare point. Desire hath no rest. This and my heart. Acceptance is my comfort. God us ayde (on a curious old ring, chased with the Nortons’ motto), =i h c= Naserus rex Judiorum me serere +.