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William Lewis, Esq., of the Bath Herald and Express, writes me that Posey Rings were worn by the Bath fish-women at the very early part of the last century: he adds, “A custom peculiar to this section of our local ladies.”
He had lately seen one “exactly like the ordinary wedding ring, but exceptionally heavy and massive, and the wearer, by its size, must indeed have been ‘a Bonnie Fish-wife’; it was engraved inside in the old-fashioned court hand then in vogue as follows:—
“ ‘My eyes did find, my heart made choice
Of her who makes me now rejoice.’”
Of her who makes me now rejoice.’”
