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...The old prayer used by the groom ran 'With this ring I thee wed; this silver and gold I thee give; with my body I thee worship; and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.' It sounded like a formal expression of what marriage is all about, but did not constitute the...

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...husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony. Beefy handed me the ring. With this ring I thee wed with my body I thee worship and with all my worldly goods I thee endow. And a little boy followed by his mother running up the center aisle between all the morning...

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...and insulted at the same time. The husband is made to say in the marriage service of the church — "With my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow" — when, in truth, he is endowing her with none of them, but taking hers instead. She even...

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...silver I thee give]: 41. Procter, A History of the Book of Common Prayer, pp. 401-3. MARRIAGE VOWS with my body I thee worship: and with all my worldly...goods I thee endow: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.42 In the ancient Latin version the man vows to "esteem, honour,...