An English Posy ring

yellow gold, the interior engraved in italicised lower case script:

‘Let vertue still direct thy will '

with an unidentified maker's mark in a rectangular reserve.

English, circa 1690.

Gauge 4mm
 
This inscription is recorded once with this spelling in English Posies and Posy Rings,
by Dame Joan Evans, (London, 1931), page 69. The ring engraved with it is held in the
collection of the British Museum.