Indue the signet of Solomon!"

A governor of Cilicia, who gave little credit to oracles, and who was always surrounded by unbelieving Epicureans sent a letter sealed with his signet to the oracle of Mopsus, requiring one of those answers that were received in a dream.

Why, euen in that was Heauen ordinate; [Sidenote: ordinant,] I had my fathers Signet in my Purse, Which was the Modell of that Danish Seale: Folded the Writ vp in forme of the other, [Sidenote: in the forme of th'] Subscrib'd it, gau't th'impression, plac't it safely, [Sidenote: Subscribe it,]

I have given them the Neapolitan's signet by way of proof.

The traditions, prescriptions, limitations, privileges, all the sharp conditions of his new life, stamp themselves upon his consciousness as the signet on soft wax;a single pressure is enough.

About some ten days since there came one Brand, Bringing a signet from my lord the king, And this commission, signed with his hand, [Lords look, and read the thing.

In the written intercourse between equals it is customary to put the impression of the signet at the top of the sheet, but from an inferior such an act would be considered as highly presumptuous.