Rounde cheeke & lypp, a nose emperyall, And everye feature ells of excellence!
At length all wearied with my toil, I sate me downe to rest awhile; My heart it was so fill'd with woe, 35 That downe my cheeke the teares did flow.
With scornful eye she looked downe, 45 Her cheeke with laughter swellin; Whilst all her friends cryd out amaine, Unworthye Barbara Allen.
O deere Phebe, If euer (as that euer may be neere) You meet in some fresh cheeke the power of fancie, Then shall you know the wounds inuisible That Loues keene arrows make Phe.
Here faire Enanthe, whose plumpe ruddy cheeke Exceeds the grape, it makes this; here my geyrle.
Capon hardy, wyll syt downe by his Maister, or els go cheeke by cheeke with him in the streete.
The sunne not yet thy sighes from heauen cleares, Thy old grones ring yet in my ancient eares, And loe vpon thy cheeke the staine doth sit, Of an old teare that is not washt off yet.
A cheeke where Youth, And blood, with pen of Truth Write, what their reader sweetly ru'th.
A cheeke where growes More than a morning rose: 35 Which to no boxe his being owes.
I loath to looke upon a common lip Were it as corral as Aurora's cheeke Died with the faire virmillion [of the] sunne.
Giue colour to my pale cheeke with thy blood, That we the horrider may seeme to those Which chance to finde vs.
No, but the Barbers man hath beene seen with him, and the olde ornament of his cheeke hath alreadie stuft tennis balls Leon.
Let not the Virgins cheeke Make soft thy trenchant Sword: for those Milke pappes That through the window Barne bore at mens eyes, Are not within the Leafe of pitty writ, But set them down horrible Traitors.
Thy friend as thou vsest him, & thy sworne enemie, Andrew Ague-cheeke To.
You amaze rather My cheeke to palenesse, what you meane by this?
O that I were a Gloue vpon that hand, That I might touch that cheeke Iul.
The Sun not yet thy sighes, from heauen cleares, Thy old grones yet ringing in my auncient eares: Lo here vpon thy cheeke the staine doth sit, Of an old teare that is not washt off yet.
Twas an Angell Spoke in you lately not my Cheeke should bee Made pale with feare.
My life is twisted in a Thread with thine; Were't not defenced, there could nothing come To make this cheeke looke pale, which at your Eye Will not fall dead before you.
Ile rather bleed to death then lift a sword In my defence, whose inconsiderate brightnes May fright the Roses from your cheekeand leave The Lillies to lament the rude divorce.
But if you when this you heare Fall downe murdered through your eare, Begge of Jove that you may have In her cheeke a dimpled grave.
The Redde rose medled with the White yfere, In either cheeke depeincten lively chere; Her modest eye, Her Majestie, Where have you seene the like but there?
About September, 1554, Cheeke went to travel abroad, and surrendered his rooms in the Blackfriars.
In 1560 the new proprietor let the Cheeke Lodgings to Sir Henry Neville, with the addition of "a void piece of ground" eighteen feet wide extending west to Water Lane.
Sir Thomas Cawarden thereupon made use of them "for the Office of the Queen's Majesty's Revells"; thus for a time the Cheeke Lodgings were intimately connected with dramatic activities.
It is with the Cheeke Lodgings that we are especially concerned.
I have been studying how Tom Cheeke might come by his intelligence, and I verily believe he has it from my cousin Peters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cheeke" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
