Camʹbalo’s Ring.

Given him by his sister Canʹace. It had the virtue of healing wounds. (See Cambel.) (Spenser: Faërie Queene, bk. iv.)

“Well mote ye wonder how that noble knight,

After he had so often wounded been,

Could stand on foot now to renew the fight …

All was through virtue of the ring he wore;

The which, not only did not from him let

One drop of blood to fall, but did restore

His weakened powers, and dulled spirits whet.”

Spenser: Faërīe Queene, iv. 3.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.