ystal, and of beaded jet.
"Lover's Complaint", l. 37.

JET

as above.

CORAL

That sweet coral mouth
Whose precious taste her thirsty lips well knew.
"Venus and Adonis", l. 542.
D iv, l. 20, 21.

CORAL

Her alabaster skin,
Her coral lips, her snow white dimpled chin.
"Lucrece", l. 420.
D 3, l. 7.

CORAL

Like ivory conduits coral cisterns filling.
_Idem_, l. 1234.
I 2, verso, l. 2.

CORAL

Coral is far more red than her lips' red.
Sonnet CXXX, l. 2.
H 4,1. 2.

CORAL

A belt of straw and ivy buds.
With coral clasps and amber studs.
"Passionate Pilgrim", 1. 366.
D 4, verso, l. 1, 2.[33]

[Footnote 33: References are here given to the original editions of
"Venus and Adonis", 1593 (unique copy in the Malone Collection in the
Bodleian Library, Oxford); "Lucrece", 1594; "Passionate Pilgrim",
1599, and Sonnets, 1609. As there is no continuous pagination, the
letters and numbers refer to the page signatures and to the line of
the page.]

While it cannot be regarded as certain that whenever Shakespeare
writes of jewels or of rings he means those in which precious stones
were set, several of the passages more or less clearly indicate this,
and we therefore present here the more characteristic of the lines in
question:

A Death's face in a ring.
_Love's Labour's Lost_, Act v, sc. 2, l. 616.
"Comedies", p. 142, col. A, line 36.

The dearest ring in Venice will I give you.
_Merchant of Venice_, Act iv, sc. 1, l. 435.
"Comedies", p. 181, col. B, line 27.

_Diana_. O behold this ring
Whose high respect and rich validity
Did lack a parallel; yet for all that
He gave it to a commoner of the camp,
If I be one.

_Count_. He blushes, and 'tis it:
Of six preceding ancestors, that gem,
Conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue,
Hath it been o