Careful Words

troth (n.)

troth (v.)

Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath,

Study to break it and not break my troth.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.

Time trieth troth in every doubt.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.