I have wel rad in Daun Burnel the Asse Among his vers, &c.
And Bardus with his asse anon Him hath updrawe, and he is gon.
The punishment of women that beats their good men in Poictiers is that they are monted on a asse wt their face to the taile, in this posture conveyed ignominiously thorow all the toune: the hangman accompanieng them.
The sick party replied, I sie very weil that Christ is their by the carrier of him, for as he was knowen at his entry unto Jerusalem by his asse that carried him, so do I know him at present.
Then they rent their clothes/ and laded euery man his asse and went agayne vnto the cytie.
For, as an Asse may weare a Lyons skinne, So noble Earles have sometimes Painters binne.
Doctor Doddie, I have a tricke to gull the Asse withall; I christned him right Doctor Doddipole.
Why may not Ganelon be like the asse And thys fayre messadge like the curynge surgeon?
Suche is myne, A Mule, that is the bastard breede betwyxte An asse & mare, & onlye fytt for labor.
I, but another tale tells of an asse Which haveinge throwne hys cruell ryder wente In pyttie to the surgeon, who recurd The sycklie man & reconcyld the asse.
It may be Socrates would not kicke againe, if an asse did kicke at him, yet some that cannot be so wise, and will not be so patient as Socrates, will for such jadish tricks give the asse his due burthen of bastonadas.
A wretched assethe Aeneids did destroy: A horse or asse is still the fate of Troy.
In the name of my own father, be thou oxe or asse that appearest, tell us what thou art.
An asse goes a foure legs; I go of two, Christ crosse.
None is happy but a glutton; None an asse but who wants money.
Preposterous Asse that neuer read so farre, To know the cause why musicke was ordain'd: Was it not to refresh the minde of man After his studies, or his vsuall paine?
With the helpe of a Surgeon, he might yet recouer, and proue an Asse Dut.
What anAsse it is, then thou dwel'st with Dawes too?
I that I will: and Ile be wise hereafter, And seeke for grace: what a thrice double Asse Was I to take this drunkard for a god?
May not anAsse know, when the Cart drawes the Horse?
Marrie sir, you must send the Asse vpon the Horse for he is verie slow gated: but I goe Brag.
By this hat, then he in the red face had it: for though I cannot remember what I did when you made me drunke, yet I am not altogether an asse Fal.
Mary, quoth Maister Hobson, theasse that bore both him and his mother: so was the Inne keeper called asse by Craft.
And will that thou an asse must bee, Then be an asse, and live an asse, For out of question wise is hee That undergoes with humble mind The state that chance hath him assign'd.
A message well simpathis'd, a Horse to be embassadour for an Asse Brag.
The example of the Oxe & the Asse is not vsed for this to proue that the Hebrewes dyd not knowe their God, but that the impietie and folishnes of that nacion shulde be amplified.
By a kynd y^e general, as: If thou se thyne enemies Asse fal vnder his burden, for cattell.
To lyke vse serue examples and similitudes, as in Esaye: The Oxe knewe hys owner, and theAsse the maunger of hys master, but Israel hathe not knowen me.
I will flye like a dogge, the heeles a'th' Asse 1 Hee's opposite to humanity.
How ha's the Asse broke the wall, that thou art out of the Citie Ape.
Myter, that will binde beares, and ride his golden Asse to death but he will haue his will?
I do begin to perceiue that I am made anAsse Ford.
Menne that bee thus naturallye borne, I thynke they be not to bee compelled against their nature, lest after the common saying we shuld leade an Oxe to wreastlynge, or an Asse to the harpe.
For what may not a man learne, when an Eliphant maye be taught to walke vpõ a corde, a bear to daunse, and an asse to playe the foole.
Quod non opus est, asse carum est=--What you don't need is dear at a doit.
Thank me when ye have it; Thank me another way, ye are an Asse else.
Yes, would he were buried, I feare hee'l make an asse of me a younger.
Marry, (quoth Maister Hobson) the asse that bore him and his mother.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "asse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
