What, platly, and ye suffre him in distresse, Ye neither bounteedoon ne gentilesse!
This is o word for al: this Troilus 1660 Was never ful to speke of this matere, And for to preysen un-to Pandarus The bountee of his righte lady dere, And Pandarus to thanke and maken chere.
If it be lent, than aftir soon, The bountee and the thank is doon; But, in love, free yeven thing Requyrith a gret guerdoning.
Yit halt thyn ancre, and yit thou mayst arryve Ther bountee berth the keye of my substaunce: And eek thou hast thy beste frend alyve.
The thridde is, to amenuse the bountee of his neighebore.
Thus preiseth he yet thebountee of man: "Amonges a thousand men yet fond I oon, But of wommen alle fond I noon.
Another is, whan he preiseth the bountee of another man, and nothing ther-of amenuseth.
Avauntour, is he that bosteth of the harm or of the bountee that he hath doon.
And after that, for the grete bountee that is in wommen, our lord Iesu Crist, whan he was risen fro deeth to lyve, appeered rather to a womman than to his apostles.
The book seith: that "the propretee of a fool is this; he troweth lightly harm of every wight, and lightly troweth alle bountee in him-self.
And for that word him blessed every man, That, of his bountee and his gentillesse, He wolde so conforten in siknesse [446: T.
Another is, to remembre him of bounteethat he of other folk hath receyved.
But my lady is so avisee 215 That, bountee and beautee bothe in her demeyne, She maketh bountee alway soverayne.
How shulde other-wyse bountee be compted for thyne?
For their 80 bounteeand their beautees cometh out of their owne kynde, and nat of thyne owne person.
What bountee mowe they yeve that, with cloude, lightly leveth his shyninge?
Now thanne, so as bountee and prowesse ben the mede to goode folk, al-so is 45 shrewednesse it-self torment to shrewes.
But certes, yif ther were beautee or bountee in the shyninge of stones, thilke cleernesse is of the stones hem-self, and nat of men; for whiche I wondre 30 gretly that men mervailen on swiche thinges.
And therfor is it that men oughten to wene by right, that bounteebe the soverein fyn, and the cause 165 of alle the thinges that ben to requeren.
But so as only bountee and prowesse may enhaunsen every man over other men; thanne mot it nedes be that shrewes, which that shrewednesse hath cast out of the condicioun of mankinde, ben put under the merite and the desert of men.
But for as moche as to every wight his owne propre bountee yeveth him his mede, thanne at erst shal he failen of mede whan he forleteth to ben good.
This is o word for al; this Troilus 1660 Was never ful, to speke of this matere, And for to preysen un-to Pandarus The bountee of his righte lady dere, And Pandarus to thanke and maken chere.
But what other thing semeth hele 145 of corages but bountee and prowesse?
Now fele I wel the goodnesse of this wyf, +That bothe after hir deeth, and in hir lyf, +Hir grete bountee doubleth hir renoun!
Now fele I wel the goodnesse of this wyf, 520 +That bothe after hir deeth, and in hir lyf, +Hir grete bounteedoubleth hir renoun!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bountee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
