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Updated: April 30, 2025
She went to the Monte de Piete with the last of her little treasures, that one dear trinket to which she had clung even when hunger was at the door the gimmal or alliance ring that Gustave had placed upon her finger before God's altar the double symbolic circlet which bore on one side her name, on the other her husband's.
To which he receives as answer “Ay, and a poesy: Annulus hic nobis, quod sic uterque, dabit.” He at once exclaims “... Good! This ring will give you what you both desire. I’ll make the whole house chant it, and the parish.” Such rings were known as Gemel or Gimmal rings, the word being derived from the Latin gemellus, twins.
Now if the rivets of those Rings inclosed Fit not each other, I have forged this lie: But if they join, we must for ever part.” It also illustrates Dr. Nares’s remark that “Gimmal rings, though originally double, were by a further refinement made triple, or even more complicated; yet the name remained unchanged.” So Herrick:
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