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Loves Garland.
you a wedding-ring?” to which he gets this reply, “Ay, and a Posie,”—
“Annulus hic nobis, quod sic uterque dabit.”
The quarrel between Nerissa and Gratiano in Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” is well known,
“About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring
That she did give me; whose posy was,
For ail the world, like cutlers’ poetry
Upon a knife, ‘Love me, and leave me not.’”
That she did give me; whose posy was,
For ail the world, like cutlers’ poetry
Upon a knife, ‘Love me, and leave me not.’”
St. Louis of France, it is said, had for his posy
“Dehors cet anel, pourrion avoir amour.”
Our own Henry VIII. when he married Ann of Cleves,
“God send me wel to kepe.”
Margaret, wife of the famous John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury,
“Til deithe depart.”
