"By the mass (occurs 22 times). Gog's bones (4 times). Gog's soul (9 times). By my father's soul (2 times). Gog's sacrament (2 times). By my troth. By God. By sun and moon. Gog's heart (6 times). By God's mother. Gog's bread (8 times). By'r Lady (2 times). By the cross. By our dear lady of Boulogne. Saint Dunstan. Saint Dominic. The three kings of Cologne. By God and the devil too. By bread and salt (2 times). By him that Judas sold. Gog's cross (2 times). By Gog's malt (2 times). Gog's death. Gog's blessed body. By God's blest (2 times). By Gis. By Saint Benet. By my truth. By Cock's mother dear. By Saint Mary. Gog's wounds (2 times). By Cock's bones. By All Hallows. By my fay. By my father's skin. By God's pity (2 times). Gog's sides (2 times)." _Page 169. The deuce!_--A specimen from the English version of 'Havelok the Dane,' edited by Sir F. Madden from the manuscript in the Laudian Collection in the Bodleian Library, may be appended:-- "'Deus!' quoth he, 'hwat may this mene!' He calde bothe arwe men, and kene Knithes, and serganz swithe sleie, Mo than an hundred."--l. 2114. Madden also refers the exclamation, _dash you_ or _dase you_, from the Anglo-Saxon imprecation _datheit_ which had been caught up from the Norman _deshait_. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. Footnotes: [1] Ducange. [2] The laws of Hoel the Good. [3] Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. [4] Ducange. [5] Mezeray, ii. 121. [6] Sloane MS. No. 2530, xxvi. D.; a manuscript giving details of the grades of students and masters of fence, and of the ceremonial attending taking their degrees. The oath runs, "First you shall swear, so help you God and halidome, and by all the christendome which God gave you at the fount stone, and by the cross of this sword which doth represent unto you the cross which our Saviour suffered his most painful deathe upon," &c. [7] Socrates' oath, _by the cabbage_, [Greek: ma ten kramben] is given in Athenaeus, ib. ix. p. 370. [8] Aristophanes, 'The Birds.' [9] Plutarch, Quaestion. Rom., p. 271. [10] 'Mariage de Figaro,' iii. 5. [11] MS. Bibliotheque nationale. 'Collection Complete des Memoires,' vol. viii. [12] "_Williams._ Ah, damnation! Goddam! _Blondel._ Goddam! Monsieur est Anglais apparemment." '_Coeur de Lion_,' 1789. [13] 'Notes on Ancient Poetry,' ed. 1770. [14] One of the last cases where the use of the word produced some coolness on the part of the persons concerned, occurred when a certain bishop in a northern diocese was reported by the local newspaper to have said in a sermon, "that he would not preach in that damned old church any more." The bishop wrote to the paper that he had said "damp old church." The editor, however, declined to question the accuracy of his reporter. [15] See passage from Roger de Collerye, given by Littre.