Adopt it as a just and binding law and covenant, taking a solemn oath in gentlemanly earnest, but with the playfulness that is the sister of solemnity in the name of the divine letter of all things present and to come, and in the name of the lordly father of this governor and cause, whom we shall all some day clearly know, in so far as the blessed are able to know him, if we truly live the life of philosophy.