I pray you, sir, rive me this clout.
"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I."
R. Dodsley
When he sits down, arise as if thou wouldest sport with him; and while thou art struggling with him as in play, I will rive him through both his sides; and look thou do the same with thy dagger.
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward
"I may say," he remarked at his trial, "that during the operation I was so eager, that I trembled all over, and I longed to rive off a piece and eat it."
"The Book of Were-Wolves"
Sabine Baring-Gould