The Rubaiyat (1120)
Context: Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before
I swore — but was I sober when I swore?
And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand
My thread-bare Penitence apieces tore.
Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)
“I couldn’t be certain, but I think Rose swore in Russian.”
Source: The Ruby Circle
I am a profoundly religious person. I take an oath before God as enormously consequential. I knew from the outset that being tasked with judging the President, the leader of my own party, would be the most difficult decision I have ever faced. I was not wrong.
Senate remarks on the Trump impeachment trial (2020)
“Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.”
Section 2, member 2, subsection 5.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“The whole of Italy swore allegiance to me.”
Iuravit in mea verba tota Italia.
XXV, 3-4. Translation by Thomas Bushnell
Res Gestae Divi Augusti
“Diogenes struck the father when the son swore, because he taught him no better.”
Section 2, member 1, subsection 5, The last and best Cure of Love-Melancholy, is to let them have their Desire.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
As quoted in His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838–64 https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&pg=PA193&lpg=PA199 (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 199
1860s, Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (April 1860)
