The contents of the "Boke of Recorde" are very interesting in this connection.
This statement may speedily be verified by a reference to the reprinted Kendal "Boke of Recorde.
The Kendal "Boke of Recorde" contains several references to the pastimes of Westmerians from two to three centuries ago.
Fitzherbert (Boke of Husbandry) says: "The thystell is an yll wede rough and sharpe to handle, and freateth away the cornes nyghe it.
Here endeth theBoke of Husbandry, and of Plantynge, and Graffynge of Trees and Vynes.
Manye other kyndes ben there of amplifiynge, which who so wyl se more at large, may read that right excellent boke of the famouse doctor Erasmus, whych he intituled the preacher.
Cicero in hys boke of an oratour with hys incompetable eloquence hathe so hid the preceptes, that scarselye they may be tryed oute by theyr names, or by theyr exãples.
Recevyd of garrad dewes for pryntinge of the boke of Rogges in a^o 1567 .
He likewise acknowledges his obligations to eight other authors, but somewhat singularly omits to mention the Boke of St. Albans, the method of which he follows, and the very words of which he frequently borrows.
The principal and most usual varieties of this ordinary are described in the 'Boke of St. Albans.
One book of instruction was entitled, The Vertuouse Boke of Distyllacyon of the Waters of all Manner of Herbs.
Sometimes he was called the enemy of hell, as in Larke's Boke of wisdome, b.
He also wrote a "Boke of Surveying", which relied on the perch rod and compass dial, and gave instruction on how to set down the results of a survey.
Since there was no requirement of legal knowledge for a Justice of the Peace, many referred to the "Boke of the Justice of the Peas" compiled about 1422 for them to use.
The first is The Boke of Comfort, called in laten Boetius de Consolatione philosophie.
The next book, The confutacyon of the first parte of Frythes boke .
To the year 1534 belongs St. Cyprian's Sermon on the mortality of man, translated by Sir Thomas Elyot, as well as a second edition of The Boke named the Governour.
The reprint of the Boke of St. Albans, which was issued in 1496, is noticeable as being printed in the type which De Worde obtained from Godfried van Os, the Gouda printer.
So strong were his religious opinions that in that year he wrote and printed a defence of the Roman Catholic doctrine of Purgatory, under the title of the New Boke of Purgatory.
Then came his first important undertaking, a quarto edition of The boke of common praier.
These books are called The Babees Boke, The Boke of Nurture, The Boke of Curteseye, etc.
Mary the heed of Silenus, an olde iolthed drunkard totynge out of a hoggeshed or a tunne, but in good ernest, wherof dothe your boke dyspose or intreate?
And yet thy boke alowes and commendes hyghly bothe fastynge and prayer.
Is it not a great sygne of holynes in a man to cary aboute the gospelboke or the newe testament?
But I wolde saye this geere dyd wonderous wel yf this gospel boke dyd so adourne the with vertue as thou hast adourned lymmed, and gorgiously garnysshed it with many gay goodly glystryng ornamentes.
Tell me thê what you call the trewe carienge of the gospell boke aboute with a man.
Yea but good felowe thy gospell boke teacheth the to geue gentle answers, and fayre wordes ||agayne for fowle, and to hym that geueth the a blowe vpon the ryght cheke to holde forth the lyfte.
Benedicite, what a straunge syght is this, me thinke I se Bachus in a lyons skin, Poliphemus with a boke in his hande.
But thy gospel boke teacheth the to praye contynually, but so that thy prayer come from the bothu of the hart.
J had the best gelding stolen out of my pasture that J had amogst others, while this boke was first a printing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boke" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
