Careful Words

goods (n.)

goods (v.)

  With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

Book Of Common Prayer: Solemnization of Matrimony.

  If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

Plautus (254(?)-184 b c): Rudens. Act iv. Sc. 7, 3. (1229.)

  Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

New Testament: Luke xii. 19.