Ac kynde wit cometh Of alle kynnes syghtes, 7680 Of briddes and of beestes, Of tastes of truthe and of deceites.
Muche merveilled me What maister hem made, And who taughte hem on trees To tymbre so heighe, Ther neither burn ne beest {224} May hir briddes rechen.
And some troden hir makes, And on trees bredden, And broughten forth hir briddes so Al above the grounde; And some briddes at the bile 7290 Thorugh brethyng conceyved; And some caukede; and took kepe How pecokkes bredden.
Briddes I biheld {223} That in buskes made nestes, Hadde nevere wye wit To werche the leeste.
And how that Ymaginatif In dremels me tolde Of Kynde and of his konnynge, And how curteis he is to bestes, And how lovynge he is to briddes On londe and on watre.
He smoot the briddes that highten Arpyes with certein arwes.
And many other dyverse bestes ben in tho contrees, and elle where there abouten: and manye dyverse briddes also; of the whiche, it were to longe for to telle zou: and therefore I passe over at this tyme.
And thanne semethe in to the sone, that he is highliche worschipt, whan that many briddes and foules and raveyne comen and eten his fader.
For whan they mowe here the briddes singe, And see the floures and the leves springe, That bringeth into hertes remembraunce A maner ese, medled with grevaunce, And lusty thoughtes fulle of greet longinge.
And eek the briddes song[es] for to here Would have rejoised any erthly wight.
Than spak oo brid for alle, by oon assent, 'This mater asketh good avysement; For we ben fewe briddes here in-fere.
Ther sat I doun among the faire floures; And saw the briddes trippe out of her boures Ther-as they had hem rested al the night.
In that contree ben double sithes more briddes than ben here.
Aboute this ryvere, ben manye briddes and foules, as sikonyes, that thei clepen ibes.
And thei han often tymes werre with the briddes of the contree, that thei taken and eten.
And so there is no mo briddes of that kynde in alle the world, but it allone.
For thilke tyme, as I have understonde, 4070 Bestes and briddes coude speke and singe.
For god seith thus by Moyses; 'they shul been wasted with hunger, and the briddes of helle shul devouren hem with bitter deeth, and the galle of the dragon shal been hir drinke, and the venim of the dragon hir morsels.
The briddes singe, it is no nay, The sparhauk and the papeiay, That Ioye it was to here; The thrustelcok made eek his lay, The wodedowve upon the spray 1960 She sang ful loude and clere.
Echon of hem in his degre Was torned into briddes kinde; Diverseliche, as men mai finde, 5940 After thastat that thei were inne, Here formes were set atwinne.
This briddes name was as tho Corvus, the which was thanne also Welmore whyt than eny Swan, And he that schrewe al that he can Of his ladi to Phebus seide; And he for wraththe his swerd outbreide, 800 With which Cornide anon he slowh.
Thus ben the Sostres briddes bothe, And ben toward the men so lothe, That thei ne wole of pure schame Unto no mannes hand be tame; For evere it duelleth in here mynde Of that thei founde a man unkinde, And that was false Teres.
But as an oule fleeth by nighte Out of all other briddes sighte, Right so this knight, on daies brode,' &c.
Ther was the tyraunt with his fethres donne And greye, I mene the goshauk, that doth pyne 335 To briddes for his outrageous ravyne.
Ladies[196], the book of the Duchesse, the book of seint Valentynes day of the parlement of briddes .
In an early poem published by Ritson is the following-- "Lenten ys come with love to toune With blosmen ant with briddes roune That al thys blisse bryngeth; Dayeseyes in this dales, Notes suete of nyghtegales Vch foul song singeth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "briddes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
