A ribald voice from the other side of the road, addressing his companion as "Mother Kybird," told her not to hug the man, and a small boy whom they met loudly asseverated his firm intention of going straight off to tell Mr. Kybird.

Timothy Thin-beard, a rascally Puritan, in Heywood's If you Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part II (4to, 1606), is continually asseverating 'By yea and nay', cf.

It is so with matters of fact about which you asseverate so positively to us, as if they were matters of opinion.

Much was the ridicule heaped upon the hopeful, trustful ones, who declared and repeatedly asseverated to the contrary.

"Yes," she asseverated stoutly.

cry I, bursting into a passion of tears, and asseverating all the more violently because I feel, with a sting of remorse, that there is a tiny grain of truthnot so large a one as he thinks, but still a grain in his accusations.