Chapter FIVE: Rings of Love, Affection and Friendship (3)

[315] Wilson’s Archæological Dictionary, art. _Ring_.

[316] Archæological Album, by Wright, p. 138.

[317] Illustrations of Ancient Art, by Trollope, p. 49.

[318] Wilkinson.

[319] Ch. 35, v. 22.

[320] Uxor Ebraica, Lib. ii. ch. 14.

[321] Kohl’s Reminiscences.

[322] Hamilton’s Marriage Rites, p. 188.

[323] Ib. 194.

[324] Bourgoing’s Travels through Spain.

[325] Act 2d, sc. 2d.

[326] Douce, 24.

[327] Book iii.

[328] The People’s Dictionary of the Bible, art. _Rings_.

[329] Douce’s Illustrations of Shakspeare, p. 69.

[330] The beautiful architectural design in this picture is said to be copied, but very much improved, from a picture by Perugino, the master of Raffaelle. As the latter had a genius beyond copying and as Perugino made use of the talents of his pupil, it is fair to suppose that Raffaelle composed the building and afterwards claimed its outline by inserting it, with improvament from reflection, in his own painting, _Lo Sposalizio_. The general form and proportions are to be found in Brunelleschi’s design for the octagon chapel of the Scholari annexed to the church Degl’ Angeli at Florence. See Kugler’s Hand Book of Painting, by Eastlake, p. 332.

[331] Martense, ii. 128.

[332] Palmer’s _Origines Liturgicæ_, vol. ii. p. 214.

[333] Bishop Jeremy Taylor’s “_Wedding Ring_.”

[334] Fosbroke’s Encyc. of Antiquities, p. 250.

[335] Notes and Queries, ii. 611.

[336] 1 Dow, 181; 2 Hagg. C. R. 70, 81.

[337] Hallam’s Middle Ages, ii. 286, _et seq._; Shelford on Marriage, 19, 20.

[338] _Poulter_ v. _Cornwall_, Salk. 9.

[339] Burns’ Eccl. Law--_Marriage_.

[340] Athenian Oracle, No. xxvi.

[341] Burns’ Eccl. Law, art. _Marriage_.

[342] Notes and Queries, iv. 199.

[343] Hone’s Table Book.

[344] Notes and Queries, v. 371.

[345] Vol. i. p. 270.

[346] Hamilton’s Marriage Rites, etc., 125.

[347] III. ii. 309.

[348] See Hamilton’s Marriage Rites, etc., 178.

[349] _Lindo_ v. _Belisario_, 1 Haggard’s Consist. Reps. 217.

[350] And see Morgan’s Doctrine and Law of Marriage, Adultery and Divorce, i. 97, _et seq._, and particularly note x. at p. 103.

[351] Verse 9.

[352] Larpent’s Private Journal, 563.

[353] Hone’s Table Book.

[354] Fosbroke, 249; Hone’s Table Book.

[355] Caylus, iii. 313, Pl. lxxxv.

[356] Hone’s Every Day Book.

[357] See Douce’s Illust. of Shakspeare, 194.

[358] Antiquities of Paris.

[359] No. 56.

[360] Herrick, in his Hesperides, speaks of “posies for our wedding-ring.”

[361] London Gent.’s Mag. vol. lv. O. S. p. 89.

[362] Caylus, ii, 312, Pl. lxxxix.

[363] No. 32.

[364] Tom. III. P. II. Pl. cxxciv.

[365] Supplement, Tom. III. Pl. LXV. p. 174.

[366] Gent.’s Mag. vol. lxxv. p. 801, 927.

[367] Ib. vol. lx. O. S. 798, 1001.

[368] Boswell’s Johnson, 280, (Murray’s ed.)

[369] Piozzi.

[370] Twiss’s Life of Eldon.

[371] Moore’s Diary, 173.

[372] A gold ring, bearing a pelican feeding her young, was found at Bury St. Edmunds, England. (Gent.’s Mag. xxxix. 532, N. S.) The crest of the house of Lumley, Earls of Scarborough, is a pelican in her nest feeding her young.

[373] Vol. viii. p. 179.

[374] Has not the idea of this _black flag_ been taken from the black sail referred to by Plutarch in his life of Theseus? When the latter was to go with the Athenian youths to attempt the destruction of the Minotaur, a ship was prepared with a black sail, us carrying them to certain ruin. But when Theseus encouraged his father Ægeus by his confidence of success against the Minotaur, he gave another sail, a white one, to the pilot, ordering him, if he brought Theseus safe back, to hoist the white; but if not, to sail with the black one in token of his misfortune. When Theseus returned, the pilot forgot to hoist the white sail and Ægeus destroyed himself.

[375] Vol. ii. 310, 314.

[376] It has been called Calphurnia consulting the Penates on the fate of Cæsar.

[377] Dagley’s Gems, p. 6.

[378] We do not know who is the author of these lines. They appeared anonymously in the Gentlemen’s Magazine (London) for 1780, vol. 1. Old Series, 337, and it is merely said that they are by the “writer of lines on presenting a knife and verses on a former wedding day.”

[379] Douce’s Illustrations of Shakspeare, 549.

Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious printer and scanning errors have been silently corrected.

Other errors made by the author such as listing T. Cutwode’s poem as
as “Calthæ Poetarum, or the Humble Bee” have been maintained.

Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation such as
“high-priest/high priest” and “wedding-ring/wedding ring” have been
maintained.

Page 59: “§ 22.” added before “The story of losing rings”.

Page 129: “a ring thereof without allou” changed to “a ring thereof
without alloy”.

Page 207: “in the ceremony of the mariage” changed to “in the
ceremony of the marriage”.

Page 235: “4” changed to “81” in Index entry for _Anselm_.

Footnote 308: “Burgou’s Life and Times” changed to “Burgon’s Life
and Times”.