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Sep 25
With the wedding ring

he promises his body --


to her, to serve her.
The "Book of Common Prayer" (second version, 1552) prescribes that at a marriage the groom puts the wedding ring upon the fourth finger of the woman's left hand and thereby says: With this ring I thee wedde; with my body I thee worship; and with all my worldly goodes I thee endow

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Zywa
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