Item, That none swear any othe, vppon paine for every othe 1d.

Item, That none swear any othe, vppon paine for every othe 1d.

Item, That no man teach any of the children any vnhonest speeche, or evil word, or othe, on paine of 4d.

At last Gyb up the stayers, among the old postes and pinnes, And Hodge he hied him after till broke were both his shinnes, Cursynge and swering othes, were never of his makyng, That Gyb wold fyre the house if that shee were not taken.

The Credulous, bright Girle, that beleeves all Language, (in Othes) if Good, Canonicall, Is fortifi'd, and taught, here, to beware Of ev'ry specious bayte, of ev'ry snare Save one: and that same Caution takes her more, Then all the flattery she felt before.

Presently after supper she began Her fitt othe toothach, and did counterfeit So naturally; but since she went to bed She almost rav'd by turnes:I heare her at it.

His words his bond, and does not break that bond To bankrupt others; he makes you not a library Of large monopolie to cosen all men: Subintelligitur, he hates to deale With such portentious othes as furr his mouth In the deliverance.

For thei seyn, He that swerethe, wil disceyve his neyghbore: and therfore alle that thei don, thei don it with outen othe.

Have we not made an enterchange of othes, Sworne love to one another twenty times, Confirmd that friendship by society, Encreasde it with the simpathy of mind, Making one pleasure pleasure unto both?

I nam'd not God, unleast twere with an othe,

Thou Eunuch, Capon, Dastard, fast and loose, Thou weathercocke of mutabilitie, White-livered Paisant, wilt thou vowe and sweare, Face and make semblance with thy bagpipe othes Of that thou never meanst to execute?

You know we never heard him sweare an othe.

Give mee myne othe.

They call it mon-ó-min, a compound descriptive phrase, which differs only from their name for the zea maize in putting an othe third syllablefor the imperative future in dau.

Ther was also a nonne, a prioresse, That of hire smiling was full simp' and coy, Hire greatest othe was but by Seint Eloy! Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (1388).

There was also a nonne, a prioresse, That of hire smiling was ful simple and coy; Hire gretest othe n'as but by Seint Eloy; And she was clepëd madame Eglentine.

" At the visitation held at Romford Chapel, Essex Archdeaconry, 5th September, 1578, the wardens of Dengie "broughte in theire surplice, which surplice is torne & verie indecent & uncomly, as appereth; whereupon the judge, for that theie neglected their othes, [ordered them to confess their fault and prepare] a newe surplice of holland cloth of v s. thele

See "The Othe which the Parsons ... shall minister to the Churche Wardens," of which the text is given in Bishop Barnes' Injunctions and other Ecclesiastical Proceedings, Surtees Soc., xxii (1850), 26 (Hereinafter cited as Barnes' Eccles.