vouch

Nor need I ſpeak my Deeds, for thoſe you ſee,

The Sun and Day are Witneſſes for me.

Let him who fights unſeen, relate his own,

And vouch the ſilent Stars, and conſcious Moon.

But the most catholike and renoumed doctours of Christes religion in the corroboration of their argumentes and sentences, do alledge the same histories and vouche (as I mought say) to their ayde the autoritie of the writars.

Nay tis moſt credible, we heere receiue it,

A certaintie vouch'd from our Coſin Auſtria, […]

If a Man ſucceeds in any Attempt, though undertook with never ſo much Folly and Raſhneſs, his Succeſs ſhall vouch him a Politician; and good Luck ſhall paſs for deep Contrivance: […]

[M]ee damp horror chil'd

At ſuch bold words voucht with a deed ſo bold: […]

Our Maſter Mars

Haſt vouch'd his Oracle, and to Arcite gave

The grace of the Contention: So the Deities

Have ſhewd due juſtice: […]

But wherein then according to their Opinion did this Image of God conſiſt? Why, in that Power and Dominion that God gave Adam over the Creatures: In that he was vouched his immediate Deputy upon Earth, the Viceroy of the Creation, and Lord-Lieutenant of the World.

I can vouch that he wasn’t at the scene of the crime.

Lives still such maid?—Fair damsels say,

For further vouches not my lay,

Save that such lived in Britain's isle,

Where Lorn's bright Edith scorn'd to smile.

That is, Scott's lay or poem does not vouch further for the truth of the previous statement.