" In the medieval marriage service the wife had pledged to be ‘bonner and buxom in bed and in board’. This has the nice alliteration of an older language. Now both partners were asked to ‘love and to cherish’ ‘for better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health’. "

― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)