The contract made in 1511 for finishing the adjacent Lady chapel also includes 'making up crests, corses, and the King's bestes stondyng on theym to bere furth squychons with armes.
Further payments are 'for makyng of 29 of the Kynges bestes to stand upon the new batilments of the Kynges New Hall, and uppon the femerell of the said Hall' and 'for 16 vanys for the bestes standyng upon the battylment of the hall.
Soth is, that, under god, ye ben our hierdes, Though to us bestesbeen the causes wrye.
The wardein of the yates gan to calle The folk which that with-oute the yates were, And bad hem dryven in hir bestes alle, Or al the night they moste bleven there.
Of the whiche litel regioun of this worlde, the ferthe partye is enhabited with livinge bestes that we knowen, as thou thyself hast y-lerned by Tholomee that proveth it.
And yif thilke delices mowen maken folk blisful, than by the same cause moten thisebestes ben cleped blisful; 10 of whiche bestes al the entencioun hasteth to fulfille hir bodily Iolitee.
Upon himself tho gan he loke; In stede of mete gras and stres, In stede of handes longe cles, In stede of man a bestes lyke He syh; and thanne he gan to syke For cloth of gold and for perrie, Which him was wont to magnefie.
Alle othre bestes that men finde Thei serve unto here oghne kinde, Bot to reson the Soule serveth; Wherof the man his thonk deserveth And get him with hise werkes goode The perdurable lyves foode.
For every lif which reson can Oghth wel to knowe that a man Ne scholde thurgh no tirannie Lich to these othre bestes die, Til kinde wolde for him sende.
And thus the Greks lich to the bestes The men in stede of god honoure, Whiche mihten noght hemself socoure, 1320 Whil that thei were alyve hiere.
Lo now, for what profit Of werre it helpeth forto ryde, For coveitise and worldes pride 2470 To sle the worldes men aboute, As bestes whiche gon theroute.
Lich to the Leoun in his rage, 2590 Fro whom that alle bestes fle, Such was the knyht in his degre: Wher he was armed in the feld, Ther dorste non abide his scheld; Gret pris upon the werre he hadde.
Ac bestes brouhte hem no mete, Bote onliche the fouweles; In tokenynge that trywe man Alle tymes sholde Fynde honeste men in holy men And other ryghtful peuple.
And whan they were replenesshid & fatte of the flessh of bestes & of the manna/ they made a calf of gold and worshippid hit.
The particular part referred to by Cessoles is chap, cclxxxi: "Pourquoy sacostent les hommes charnellement aux femmes grosses et les bestes ne le font pas?
For thilke tyme, as I have understonde, 4070 Bestes and briddes coude speke and singe.
And all the tenaunts bestes wer put fro Calcalcott[193.
And in this yere manye men andbestes were enfect with pokkes where thorugh they deyden.
Wher be ye, that I may nat with yow mete, And mighte thus with bestes been y-slain?
She wants to turn my beautiful bestes Zimmer into a kitchen.
Brynges furthe, [as] sayd the boke, bestes out of noumbre, And trottes on toward Tyre with taite at thaire hertes.
Into wildernes ichil te, And liue [th]er euermore Wi[th] wildebestes in holtes hore.
For of all o[th]ere bestes [th]ei han enclosed amonges hem, saf only the fox.
And in another yle ben folk, that han hors feet; and thei ben stronge and myghty and swift renneres; for thei taken wyld bestes with rennyng, and eten hem.
In Cipre men hunten with papyonns, that ben lyche lepardes: and thei taken wylde bestes righte welle, and thei ben somdelle [Footnote: Somewhat.
And men of that yle seyn comounly, that the serpentes and the wilde bestes of that contree ne will not don non harm, ne touchen with evylle, no strange man, that entrethe into that contree, but only to men that ben born of the same contree.
And in somer, be alle the contrees, fallen many tempestes and many hydouse thondres and leytes, and slen meche peple and bestes also, fulle often tyme.
And the other bestesthat ben foule, they seyn, ben soules of pore men and of rude comouns.
And thei seyn, that theise bestes ben soules of worthi men, that resemblen in lyknesse of the bestes, that ben faire: and therfore thei zeve hem mete, for the love of God.
Also at Cayre, that I spak of before, sellen men comounly bothe men and wommen of other lawe, as we don herebestes in the markat.
And whan thei han eten, the monk smytethe eft sones on the gardyn zate with the clyket; and than anon alle the bestes retornen azen to here places, that thei come fro.
And therfore thei warmen and sethen here mete with hors dong and cow dong, and of other bestes dryed azenst the sonne.
Theise bestes aboveseyd, thei let taken, whan thei ben zonge, and norisschen hem so with almesse; als manye, as thei may fynde.
First, I must emphasize the assertion made a moment ago that the constitution of the Irish Church in the eleventh century was sui generis.
Under the Norse domination, as we might expect, the number was greatly diminished.
When Cellach was elected abbot in 1105, and in the following year was consecrated bishop, a great point had been gained.
For the first time for 150 years the church of Armagh had a bishop as its ruler.
Whether therefore it is the herald of one now present or the harbinger of one who shall come immediately, the want is evident.
As we shall see, his work had to be slowly undone.
I ran to him that the blessing of him that was ready to die might come upon me.
I obey with a will, the more so because you ask not panegyric but narrative.
He was near the end; nay, rather, near the beginning, according to the saying, when a man hath finished then is he but at the beginning.
The parish (using the word in its modern sense) in which is Newtown Stewart, co.
Certainly they could; and "speking and singing in thilke tyme" seems much more natural for "bestes and briddes" than many of the things they do nowadays.
In Roy Modus the beasts are also divided into bestes doulces and bestes puans.
Under the bestes puans are classed the wild boar, the wild sow, the wolf, the fox, and the otter.
He is also informed that the hart, the buck, and the boar should be started by a limer, and that all "other bestes that huntyd shall be sought for and found by Ratches so free.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bestes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
