So þer brenden serges seuene, And an hundred serges ok: Þat durste hi sweren on a bok.
For David in hise dayes Dubbed knyghtes, And dide hem sweren on hir swerdes To serven truthe evere; And who so passed that point Was apostata in the ordre.
He sweren soe (and mickle moe) It made man's flesch to creepen, The air ben blue with his ado And sore his wiffe ben wepen.
Her sweren zounds which be Gog's wounds, By bricht Marie and Gis, By sweit Sanct Ann and holie Tan And by Bryde's bell, ywis.
Giff you wold know why sweren soe The goodman high Sir Hoten, He ben full wroth, because, in soth, He leesed his coler boten.
Ye men, that falsly sweren many an ooth That ye wol dye, if that your love be wrooth, Heer may ye seen of women whiche a trouthe!
Thou shalt sweren eek in doom, whan thou art constreyned by thy domesman to witnessen the trouthe.
Thanne semeth it, that men that sweren so horribly by his blessed name, that they despyse him more boldely than dide the cursede Iewes, or elles the devel, that trembleth whan he hereth his name.
Now hastily do fecche a book,' quod he, 'And if this knight wol sweren how that she This womman slow, yet wole we us avyse Whom that we wole that shal ben our Iustyse.
They falsen ladies traitoursly, And sweren hem othes utterly, With many a lesing, and many a fable, 4835 And al they finden deceyvable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sweren" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
