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32 you a wedding-ring?” to which he gets this reply, “Ay, and a Posie,”—

The quarrel between Nerissa and Gratiano in Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” is well known,

St. Louis of France, it is said, had for his posy

Our own Henry VIII. when he married Ann of Cleves,

Margaret, wife of the famous John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury,