ringe

• “Aftre that he affiaunceth them both with one ringe.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “And thrice this Left with pledged ringe was dight + three husbands me, & I haue them enioyde”

  My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem

• “A third has on the rim -- "This ringe was made six tuneable bells at the charge of the Lord Howard and other gentree of the country and citie, and officers of the garrisson, by the advice of Majer Jeremiah Tolhurst, governor of the garrisson 1658.”

  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See

• “Brandish to tithe the ringe-wood, found the woodman over anxious for him to begin counting at a certain spot, where the cutting commenced, but suspecting that the ringes had been cooked a little, the wily curate examined them and found every tenth, from the woodman's way of counting _fell upon a very thin ringe_!”

  Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King

• “At what time dayelight began to appeare, and he with the ringe on his finger, wandred he wiste not whether, tyll he came to the Seaside, and at length recouered his Inne, where he founde his companie and his hoste al that night, taking greate care for him.”

  The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1

• “He denieth that he took any ringe out of Hudson's pocket, neither ever saw it except on his finger, nor knoweth what became of it.”

  Henry Hudson

• “The November following Herrick's appointment to the benefice was marked by the death of his mother, who left him no heavier legacy than "a ringe of twenty shillings.”

  Ponkapog Papers.

• “When I go back I say to her, ` Now don't worry any more, dear; leave all to me, 'and I run the house and make them all c-ringe before me.”

  Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story

• “If she be unmaried to beare in her ringe, cognizaunce or otherwise, the first coate of her Ancestors in a Lozenge.”

  Shakespeare's Family

• “[Sidenote: Rubus.] ++Rubus is a fisshe of the grekes se & of the sees of ytaly/they be rou {n} de lyke a ringe, & haue many rede spottes/”

  Early English Meals and Manners

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