32 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 all the world, like cutlers’ poetry 
Upon a knife, ‘Zove 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.”’ 
