Loves garland, or, Posies for rings, hand-kerchers, & gloves and such pretty tokens that lovers send their loves. A reprint. Whereunto is added a collection of posie mottoes ... entitled, Ye garland of ye Sette of odd volumes. To which is prefixed an introduction, in which some trite things are said concerning the efforts of the early alchemists to transmute the baser metals into gold ... / by James Roberts Brown.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Loves garland, or, Posies for rings, hand-kerchers, & gloves and such pretty tokens that lovers send their loves. A reprint. Whereunto is added a collection of posie mottoes ... entitled, Ye garland of ye Sette of odd volumes. To which is prefixed an introduction, in which some trite things are said concerning the efforts of the early alchemists to transmute the baser metals into gold ... / by James Roberts Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Not valeu but vertv. Not a truer heart alive. Never forget me. Not a truer ^ alive. Not that in mee but bowes to thee. Qui Dedit se Dedit A M. H-To Hartes in one. The Yock of Love is swieth. When \two hearts] unite the loue is right. Don Damy. A Friend to the end. ^ This gentleman also mentions an old house at Cork, which has the following quaint inscription on it:—^ Thy sugred . name O Lorde engrave wiXHIN MY BREST. SiTH . THEREIN DOTH CONSIST MY WEAL AND ONELIE REST.
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