40. _The Posy of a Ring._

True love well placed is ne'er disgraced.

41.

I am your friend unto the end.

42.

Yours I am; be mine again!

43.

Love itself discloses by Gifts with Posies.

44.

_A Posy sent with a pair of Gloves._

What should I write? Some words do move

Suspicion unto those that love:

Then, without any further art,

In one word, you have my heart!

45.

_Her Reply._

Lest for a heart you should complain;

With mine I send yours back again!

For Love to me this power doth give,

That my heart in your heart doth live.

46.

_A young Man's Posy wrought in a Handkercher._

A maiden virtuous chaste and fair

Is a jewel past compare:

And such are you, in whom I find

Virtue is with Beauty joined.

47.

_A Maiden's Posy sent with a willow coloured Point to a young Man

that had forsaken her._

Your love was like a spark which in the ashes lies,

That shineth for a time, but afterwards it dies:

Since therefore you did faithless prove;

I do here renounce your love!

48.

_Posies for Rings._

Be true to me, as I to thee.

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