To which the latter replies:
Ay, and a posie: Annulus hie nobis, quod sic uterque, dabit.
This the parson quickly renders as follows:
This ring will give you what you both desire; I'll make the whole house shout it, and the parish.
On
other pages a number of characteristic and striking ring-inscriptions
are given, but in view of the wide range of these " posies " (poesies)
and mottoes, a fairly full list of them, compiled from various sources,
may be of interest here.61 The French mottoes are nearly all
in Old French, and the English spellings of those of the seventeenth
century are delightfully irregular.
Till death divide.
Nemo nisi mors. (No one but Death).
Tout pour beva feyre. (All to do well).
In bone fay. (In good faith).
Sans mal desyr. (Without evil wish).
Amor vmcit om.
(Love conquers all things).
Till my life's end.
