Rings Used by Fiction Writers

The use of rings in writings of fiction from early times, and an excerpt from Shakespeare

Authors of fiction, from early times, have made use of rings for their scenes. Shakspeare not unfrequently introduces them; indeed the most interesting portion of Cymbeline is worked up through the wager of a ring as to the honor of the heroine. Imogen, in taking leave of Posthumus, says:

"--Look here, love;

This diamond was my mother's; take it, heart;

But keep it till you woo another wife,

When Imogen is dead.

Posthumus. How! how! another?

You gentle gods, give me but this I have,

And sear up my embracements from a next

With bonds of death! Remain thou here,

(Putting on the ring,)

While sense can keep it on."

And he, then, exchanges for it, "a manacle of love," a bracelet, placing it upon her arm, that "fairest prisoner." Iachimo induced Posthumus to wager this ring, which he esteemed "more than the world enjoys"--but it is unnecessary to go further: for who has not read Shakspeare?


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