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posy
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Definition:1. A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Here, I find
The empty walls worse than I left them, smoak'd,
A few crack'd pots, and glasses, and a furnace:
The ceiling fill'd with poesies of the candle,
And madam with a dildo writ o' the walls:
Only one gentlewoman, I met here,
That is within, that said she was a widow—
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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