# Loves Garland/Mr. Evans's Posies

​By the courtesy of John Evans, Esq., F.R.S., D.C.L., of Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead, I have been favoured with the following list of Posie Mottoes from rings in his possession. The collection is so unique and of such exceptional interest, that I print it entire, at the risk of repeating some of the mottoes already given. My acknowledgments are also due to Mrs. Evans, to whom I would offer my sincere thanks for preparing this list for me during the absence of Dr. Evans from home; it is through this graceful act on her part that I am enabled to embody it into “Ye Garland of ye Sette of Odd Volumes.”
J. R. B.
August, 1883.
All I refues and thee i chus (silver).
A Loving Wife prolongeth Life.
A mind content canot repent.
A token of my love.
A token sent with true intent.
A true friends guift.
A vertuous wife preserveth life.
Advised choyse Admits no chang-.
As endless is My love as this.
Amorim pro amore Cupio (sic).
Animam Deo Cor Sponsæ dedi.
​As God saw fitt our Knott it Knitt.
I. S. E. W.
As god decreed so wee agreed.
As gold is puer let love Indure.
As I love thee so love thou mee.
As trewe to me as i to thee.
Bee true in heart.
By this my love presented is I MA.
Christ & thee my comfort be.
Content indeed doth gold exceed.
Content’s a treasure.
​✠ CONTINEW ✠ CONSTANT ✠
✠ CONTINEW FAITHFVLL
Death only parts united hearts.
Direct our waies lord all our daies.
Desire hath noe rest.
Ever true my Dear to you.
Every condition Grave doth swetten.
Far apart yet night in ♥
Feare god only (silver)
Fear God and love me Feare God and love thy chosce.
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Fortune of War.
​God above continue our love.
God above increase our love.
God above Keep us in love.
God alone made us two one.
God above unite our love.
God’s Blesing be on thee and me.
God continue our love.
God alone my love hath shown.
God’s decree well pleseth me.
God be a guide to thee my Bride.
​God for me apointed thee.
God bless for ever us two together.
God gives increase to love and peace.
God did decree our unity.
God hath sent my ♥ content.
God’s intent none can prevent.
God’s decree fulfilled have we.
God’s providence is our inheritance.
God saw fitt this knott to knitt.
God knyt our hartes in faith.
​God’s intent none can prevent.
Godly love will not remove.
Godliness is great gaine.
Good Lord, abide To us a guide $_I$$^U$$_S$
God hath me sent my harts content.
God hath for me ordained the $_R$$^E$$_B$ 1739.
Happy in thee hath God made me.
Happy pair That faithfull are.
Hearts united live contented.
Hearts content cannot repent.
​Heaven is my happyness.
Hurt not yt ♥ whose joy thou art
✠ I ✠ AM ✠ YOVRES ✠ E G.
I am blacke but comely.
I bid adue to all but you.
I am his that gave me this.
I have obtained what God ordained.
I have obtaine home God ordained.
✠ I ✠ JOYE ✠ IN ✠ GOD ✠ I joye in god.
I joy to find a constant mind.
​I like my choyce to well to change.
I love and like my choice.
I owe this ring thy love to win E H.
I vow to God and you.
I will ever love the giver.
I sorrow in silens.
I wish no chainge.
In Christ alone we two are one.
In constancy let’s live and dy.
In God and thee my joy shall be.
In thy brest my hart doth rest.
​In thy sight is my delight.
If in thy love thou constant bee My heart shall never part from thee.
IF THIS THEN ME. If love you baer for me this wear In unity let’s live and dye.
JAMES AND AMELIA LOVE.
Joyned in one by Christ alone.
Keepe Promiss.
Keepe Faith till Death.
Knit in one by Christ alone.
Let’s live and die in unity.
Let God above increase our love.
​Let love abide till death divide.
Let love increase.
Let no Calamitye seperate amitie.
Let patience be thy pennance.
Let virtue be thy guide.
Let liking last (silver).
Let vertue be a guide to thee.
Let wisdom bee thy gide.
Let us share in Joy and Care.
Let your life show your love.
Like this my love shall endless prove.
Live in love and fear the Lord $_R$$^W$$_T$
​Live in Love (silver).
Love and live happy.
Love as I or else I dye.
Love and fear God.
Love him in heart whose joy thou Art.
Love ever not the guift but the giver.
Love is the bond of peace.
Love loves no chainge.
Love that is pure wil endure.
LOVE SERVE AND OBEY.
Lite to require (enamel).
My harte is your.
My love ($_A$) t ($^N$)o thee shall ever bee.
Make God above thy greatest love.
​My beloved is mine and I am his.
My care shall be to honour thee.
My heart and I untill I die.
My love shall last til life be past.
My promise past shall ever last.
No heart so true as mine to you.
Noe treasure to a true frinde Noe treasure to content.
No riches like content No riches so content (bronze).
No joy to content.
No cute to unkindness.
​Not the vallue but my love.
O Lord us bless with happyness.
One to one is sport alone.
Only death shall separat love.
Perfect love is from above.
Rather dy than faith deny.
Rather die than faith denie (silver).
“Remember him who dyed for thee and after him remember me.”
Remember youer freind.
Respect is dew only to you.
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Sis eadem in utraq, Fortuna.
The gift is small ye love is all.
The God of peace true love increase.
The Lord our Righteousness.
The Lord us bless with good succis.
Thoe many thought us two to sever Yet God hath joyned us two together.
Thy virtue is thy honor.
Thought absent yet constant.
Time shall tell j love thee well.
​To God’s decree we both agree.
True in hart till death us depart.
Twas God to thee directed me.
Two but one hart till death us depart.
Two ♥♥ soe tide let none devide.
United hearts death only parts.
Vertue ganeth glory.
Vertue gaineth glory.
Virtue paseth riches.
Virtue passeth riches.
Wheare vertue lyes love never dies.
When this you see remember mee.
Wome God as assinted (? apinted) I am contented.