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Shakespeare and Precious Stones - Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to Where the Precious Sto by George Frederick Kunz
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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,