Posy, Inscription, and Motto Rings
Posy, Inscription, and Motto Rings (WITHIN the hoop)
WITHIN the hoop of the betrothal ring it was customary from the middle of the sixteenth to the close of the 11: SRAKI FAITHFULSTRUE ameried…
Posy, Inscription, and Motto Rings (Shakspeare in the Merchant)
Shakspeare, in the 'Merchant of Venice' (act v. scene 1), makes Gratiano, when asked by Portia the reason of his quarrel with Nerissa…
Posy, Inscription, and Motto Rings: English
At the Loan Exhibition of Ancient and Modern Jewellery at the South Kensington Museum in 1872, J. W. Singer, Esq.,¹ contributed a…
Posy, Inscription, and Motto Rings: Death
The love is true that IOU.
Posy, Inscription, and Motto Rings: Love
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…
Posy, Inscription, and Motto Rings: Loue
Avoid all strife 'twixt man and wife.
Posy, Inscription, and Motto Rings: Device-a
Device-a mouse gnawing away the net in which a lion is caught.
Posy, Inscription, and Motto Rings (Magazine' vol lxxix as having)
Magazine' (vol. lxxix.) as having been found in 1808 in the ruins of an old manor-house, occupied in the sixteenth century by a family of…
Posy, Inscription, and Motto Rings: Henry
You dear! (The meaning is thus conjectured of, possibly, a rebus, or canting device, on a silver signet-ring, found in the bed of the river…