He had also sworn before the Senate committees to tell the truth.
He was sworn in as premier just a month before the 1986 election.
"Remember, we'll both swear before God to the truth of it."
But you really must not swear before the girl.
That's what you have sworn before God to do: One thing at a time.
Do that, and I swear before all the gods, you'll come up to the deck safe.
Perhaps he'd forgotten how he swore his innocence before the two men that spring.
I swear before God,' he said, 'this is another mystery to me.
It's mine, I swear before all the saints of heaven.
I saw it all, and I'll swear before the justice.