This dayes ensample hath this lesson deare 8 Deepe written in my heart with yron pen, That blisse may not abide in state of mortall men.
Let now your blisse be turned into bale, And into plaints convert your joyous playes, And with the same fill every hill and dale.
For hire love y carke ant care, For hire love y droupne ant dare, For hire love my blisse is bare Ant al ich waxe won, For hire love in slep y slake, For hire love al nyht ich wake, For hire love mournynge y make More then eny mon.
Let now your blissebe turned into bale, 320 And into plaints convert your ioyous playes, And with the same fill every hill and dale.
Unrighteous Lord of love, what law is this, That me thou makest thus tormented be, The whiles she lordeth in licentious blisse Of her freewill, scorning both thee and me?
Sith morning faire may bring fowle evening late, And least mishap the most blisse alter may!
Teach mee prize the world at nought; On Thy blisse be all my thought.
What full enioying blisse divine, What iewels on thy wals do shine!
Jesus bring them to blisse | that brought us forth of bale, That hath hearkened me heare | or heard my tale.
Man and his make I myghte bothe biholde; Poverte and plentee; Bothe pees and werre; Blisse and bale bothe 7240 I seigh al at ones; And how men token mede, And mercy refused.
And blewe alle thi blessed Into the blisse of paradys.
There is Crist in his kingdom To close and to shette, 210 And to opene it to hem, And hevene blisse shewe.
The kyng fro the conseil cam, And called after Mede, 1560 And of sente hire as swithe With sergeauntz manye, And broughte hire to boure With blisse and with joye.
Ac thorugh hir science soothly Was nevere no soule y-saved, 7690 Ne broght by hir bokes To blisse ne to joye; For alle hir kynde knowynges Come but of diverse sightes.
A thing create, that all things passes, Whom nature blest with all hir graces; O clerkes, in you blisse all blisse places.
For of the mannes Progenie, 30 Which of the womman schal be bore, The nombre of Angles which was lore, Whan thei out fro the blisse felle, He thoghte to restore, and felle In hevene thilke holy place Which stod tho voide upon his grace.
Pandare answerde, and seyde thus, that he That ones may in hevene blisse be, He feleth other weyes, dar I leye, Than thilke tyme he first herde of it seye.
But whan he saugh that specheles she lay, With sorwful voys and herte of blisse al bare, He seyde how she was fro this world y-fare!
And thanne at erste shul we been so fayn, So as we shulle to-gederes ever dwelle, That al this world ne mighte our blisse telle.
But wene ye that every wrecche woot 890 The parfit blisse of love?
For whan thyn hornes newe ginne springe, Than shal she come, that may myblisse bringe!
A-wey, thou foule daunger and thou fere, And lat hem in this hevene blisse dwelle, That is so heygh, that al ne can I telle!
My heart had fail'd but that my hope to see GOD'S endlesse blisse in heauen, did comfort mee.
He shall receaue both righteousnes and blisse From God, Whose mercy his saluation is.
No more haue Angels, yet they haue more blisse Then euer yet to mortall man was knowne.
Repentant for the follies of my youth, That magicks secret mysteries misled, And joyfull that this royall marriage Portends such blisse unto this matchless realme.
A litel misgoing in the ginning causeth mikil errour in the ende; wherfore of thilke blisse thou fayledest, for having of richesse; ne non of the other thinges thou nempnedest mowen nat make suche parfit blisse in love as I shal 30 shewe.
He that is wyse and with yvel wil nat be acomered, can abyde wel his tyme, til grace and blisse of his service folowing have him so mokel esed, as his abydinge toforehande hath him disesed.
These 20 tymes are figured by tho three dayes that our god was closed in erthe; and in the thirde aroos, shewing our resurreccion to joye and blisse of tho that it deserven, by his merciable grace.
And in this degree, lady, your-selfe many hertes of men have so bounden, that parfit blisse in womankynde to ben men wenen, and in nothinge els.
How Cesars +swink, I lefte it for no tene til he was troned in myblisse for his service?
Trewly, al maner of blisse and preciousnesse in vertue out of 150 thee springen and wellen, as brokes and rivers proceden from their springes.
And bycause toforn this in tho wayes I was 140 set, I wot wel my-selfe I have erred, and of the blisse fayled; and so out of my way hugely have I ronne.
And the kyndly stede of this blisse is in suche wil medled to +onbyde, and nedes in that it shulde have his kyndly being.
And in the 30 thirde, Joye and blisse graunted to him that wel can deserve it, and hath savour of understandinge in the tyme of grace.
Bytuene Mershe and Avoril When spray beginneth to springe, The little foul hath hire wyl On hyre lud to synge: Ich libbe in love-longinge For semlokest of alle thynge, He may me blisse bringe Icham in hire banndoun.
The blisse which that is bitwixe hem tweye Ther may no tonge telle, or herte thinke.
Moreover amongst thy glorious fare, thy great ease, and the blisse of thy life, thou shalt not be destitute of dignity, for thou shalt be chronicled perpetually in memory of my present fortune, and the providence divine.
And thus with alle blisse and melodye Hath Palamon y-wedded Emelye.
I dar wel seyn that, er that half an hour After his deeth, I saugh him born to blisse In myn avisioun, so god me wisse!
And whan he was in this prosperitee, Hoom with his wyf he gooth to his contree, 800 Nat fer fro Penmark, ther his dwelling was, Wher-as he liveth in blisse and in solas.
To whiche blisse he us bringe That blood on crosse for us gan springe, followed by--Qui cum patre, &c.
Arveragus and Dorigene his wyf In sovereyn blisse leden forth hir lyf.
Al ful of Ioye and blisse is the paleys, And ful of instruments and of vitaille, The moste deyntevous of al Itaille.
And in this blisse lete I now Arcite, And speke I wol of Palamon a lyte.
This glade folk to diner they hem sette; (1020) In Ioye and blisse at mete I lete hem dwelle A thousand fold wel more than I can telle.
For sith that verray hevene is boght so dere, With tribulacioun and greet penaunce, How sholde I thanne, that live in swich plesaunce 1650 As alle wedded men don with hir wyvis, Come to the blisse ther Crist eterne on lyve is?
The blisse which that is bitwixe hem tweye 1340 Ther may no tonge telle, or herte thinke.
And whan I thenke upon the kisse, And how muche Ioye and blisse I hadde thurgh the savour swete, 4115 For wante of it I grone and grete.
Half his anoy he shal have ay, And comfort [him] what that he may; And of his blisse parte shal he, If love wol departed be.
I; 745 Good sir, tel me al hoolly In what wyse, how, why, and wherfore That ye have thus yourblisse lore.
I praye god your sorwe lisse; 210 To litel whyl our blisse lasteth!
Who regneth now in blisse but Venus, That hath this worthy knight in governaunce?
Your plesaunce is to laughen whan I syke, 10 And thus ye me from al my blisse exyle.
To forsake the Life & Blisse Æternall: and to cleaue vnto the Author of Death euerlasting?
Nu boþe togadere þes childre for blisse Falleþ to his fet hem to kisse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blisse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
