f vagrants.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. i. 1, 6
(1605).

=Ring= (_Dame Li[)o]n[^e]s's_), a ring given by Dame Lion[^e]s to Sir
Gareth, during a tournament.

"That ring," said Dame Lion[^e]s, "increaseth my beauty much more
than it is of itself; and this is the virtue of my ring: that which
is green it will turn to red, and that which is red it will turn
green; that which is blue it will turn white, and that which is
white it will turn blue; and so with all other colors. Also,
whoever beareth my ring can never lose blood."--Sir T. Malory,
_History of Prince Arthur_, i. 146 (1470).

_Ring_ (_Luned's_). This ring rendered the wearer invisible. Luned or
Lynet gave it to Owain, one of King Arthur's knights. Consequently, when
men were sent to kill him he was nowhere to be found, for he was
invisible.

Take this ring, and put it on thy finger, with the stone inside thy
hand; and close thy hand upon the stone; and as long as thou
concealest it, it will conceal thee.--_The Mabinogion_ ("Lady of
the Fountain," twelfth century).

_Ring_ (_The Steel_), made by Siedel-Beckir. This ring enabled the
wearer to read the secrets of another's heart.--Comte de Caylus,
_Oriental Tales_ ("The Four Talismans," 1743).

_Ring_ (_The Talking_), a ring given by Tartaro, the Basque Cyclops, to
a girl whom he wished to marry. Immediately she put it on, it kept
incessantly saying, "You there, and I here;" so, to get rid of the
nuisance, she cut off her finger and threw both ring and finger into a
pond.--Rev. W. Webster, _Basque Legends_, 4 (1876).

The same story appears in Campbell's _Popular Tales of the West
Highlands_, i. 111, and in Grimm's tale of _The Robber and His Sons_.
When the robber put on the ring, it incessantly cried out, "Here I am;"
so he bit off his finger, and threw it from him.

_Ring_ (_The Virgin's Wedding Ring_), kept in the Duomo of Perugia,
under fourteen locks.

=Ring and the Book= (_The_), an idyllic epic, by Robert Browning, founded
on a _cause c['e]l[`e]bre_ of Italian history in 1698. The case was this:
Guido Franceschini, a Florentine count of shattered fortune, married
Pompilia, thinking her to be an heiress. When the young bride discovered
that she had been married for her money only, she told her husband she
was no heiress at all, but was only the supposititious child of Pietro
(2 _syl._), supplied by one Violant[^e], for the sake of keep