I. THE RING. PURE AND ENDLESS. TUBAL. One of them showed me a ring, that he had of your daughter for a monkey. SHYLOCK. Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my turkois; I had it of Leah, when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys. SHAKESPEARE. THE RING. FORMATION OF WOMAN. AND the Lord said, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make a helpmeet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man. PURE AND ENDLESS. Scriptures. you would know the love which you I bear, Compare it to the ring which your fair hand Shall make more precious when you it shall So wear; my love's nature you shall understand. |