For eucheson we have non Olyfe that bereth grene leves we takon in stede of hit Hew and Palmes wyth, and beroth abowte in procession and so this day we callyn palme sonnenday.
Gower describes it-- "There is growend upon the ground Popy that bereth the sede of slepe.
The name Bramble originally meant anything thorny, and Chaucer applied it to the Dog Rose-- "He was chaste and no lechour, And sweet as is the Bramble flower That bereth the red hepe.
And (he) bereth awey my whete, And taketh me but a taille for ten quarters of otes.
For wher-for elles bereth lightnesse the flaumbes up, and the weighte presseth the erthe a-doun, but for as moche as thilke places and thilke 100 moevinges ben covenable to everich of hem?
And vertu cler-shyninge naturelly is hid in derke derkenesses, and the rightful man bereth the blame and the peyne of the feloun.
And yif he be distempre and quaketh for ire, men shal wene that he bereth the corage of a lyoun.
The Evangely berethwitness A lamb, he lykneth Christ over-all, In tokening that he mekest was, Sith pryde was out of heven fall.
And yet in sothe, this is the worst of alle, That Falshed wrongfully of Trouthe hath name, And Trouthe ayenward of Falshed bereth the blame.
Right as a mirour nothing may enpresse, But, lightly as it cometh, so mot it pace, So fareth your love, your werkes bereth witnesse.
And also no wylde best dar assaylle the man [th]at bereth it on him.
And somtyme grucching sourdeth of Envye; whan men discovereth a mannes harm that was privee, or bereth him on hond thing that is fals.
But Canacee hom berethhir in hir lappe, 635 And softely in plastres gan hir wrappe, Ther as she with hir beek had hurt hir-selve.
And thapostle seith: that "ther nis thing in this world, of which we sholden have so greet Ioye as whan our consciencebereth us good witnesse.
And yet, god woot, my neighebores aboute, And namely of wommen many a route, 1550 Seyn that I have the moste stedefast wyf, And eek the mekeste oon that bereth lyf.
Of the rote of Contricion springeth a stalke, that bereth braunches and leves of Confession, and fruit of Satisfaccion.
Of this matere I myghte Make a long tale, And fynde fele witnesses Among the foure doctours; And that I lye noght of that I lere thee, Luc bereth witnesse.
And thus was wedlok y-wroght, And God hymself it made In erthe and in hevene, Hymself bereth witnesse.
And freres fyndeth hem in defaute, As folk bereth witnesse, That whan thei preche the peple In many places aboute, I Wrathe walke with hem, And wisse hem of my bokes.
And hastily God answerde, And eitheres wille folwed, Bothe Marthaes and Maries, As Mathew bereth witnesse; Ac poverte God putte bifore, 7070 And preised that the bettre.
Wiser than Salomon wasBereth witnesse and taughte That parfit poverte was No possession to have, 7110 And lif moost likynge to God, As Luc bereth witnesse: Si vis perfectus esse, vade et vende.
Alle the foure euvangelistes, And Crist cleped hymself so, The euvangelistes bereth witnesse.
Tobye telleth yow noght so, Taketh hede, ye riche, How the book Bible Of hym bereth witnesse.
Ac for the book Bible Berethwitnesse How Daniel divined The dreem of a kyng, 4800 That was Nabugodonosor Nempned of clerkes.
Pacience hath be in many place, And peraunter mouthed That no clerk ne kan, As Crist bereth witnesse: Patientes vincunt, etc.
And this herbe hathe senowes on his leves as hath Plantayne, and it hathe yelowe floures and bereth blacke berys, and it groweth in dry woodes.
And so of the blissyng of God Thei bereth little mede.
Though he bere hem no breed, He bereth hem swetter liflode, 9990 Loveth hem as oure Lord biddeth, And loketh how thei fare.
Ac of curatours of cristen peple, As clerkes bereth witnesse, I shal tellen it, for truthes sake, Take hede who so liketh.
I se it by ensaunple In somer tyme on trowes: Ther some bowes ben leved, 9800 And some bereth none, Ther is a meschief in the morre Of swiche manere bowes.
He bereth the blame of all suche ordynaunce; And yf they be poore and fall in dystresse, She sayth it is his foly and lewdnesse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bereth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
