troth

An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.

By my troth I care not, a man can die but once, we owe God a death, [...]

And by my faith and troth I have a good part of a mind to have thee beaten for thine insolence!

An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.

...I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter'd by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth;...

It follows, as a natural consequence, that the two who stood alone in the new faith, [...] should, finally, make mutual confession of the passion that had surprised both, in the early pride of man and womanhood; should exchange rings, and plight troths where the pleasaunce joined the river, as young lovers do still probably exchange rings and plight troths, by the old Cheshire river.

An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.

I did, therefore, what an honest man should; restored the maiden her troth, and departed the country, in the service of my king.

Truth; something true.

[John] Martiall, much like to Virgil's Sinon, (of whom he took a precedent, to make an artificial lie,) for three leaves together, in his preface, telleth undoubted trothes; to the end that the falsehoods, which, foolishly, (God wot,) he doth infer, may have the more credit.

I can̄ot lerne Banister's confession upon the racke as yet; but he was put to the racke for denying of moost manifest trothes at the first.

To pledge to marry somebody.

A surname transferred from the nickname.