Nor shall I thinke this labour lost, though I doe liue: for I will make it my owne looking glasse wherein to see when I am too seuere, when too remisse, and in my childes fault through this glasse to discerne mine owne errors.
First, that I wrote to a Childe, and though I were but a woman, yet to a childes iudgement, what I vnderstood might serue for a foundation to a better learning.
The king hath understonde his sawe, The childes name and axeth tho, And what the Moder hihte also That he him wolde telle he preide.
And thus Horestes duelleth stille, Such was the childes rihte name, Which after wroghte mochel schame 1960 In vengance of his fader deth.
And tho began he to devise 1390 How he the childes Moder fond Upon the See from every lond Withinne a Schip was stiereles, And how this ladi helpeles Forth with hir child he hath forthdrawe.
And sin I oghte avyse me right wel To whom I yeve my good awey fro me, Wel muchel more I oghte avysed be To whom I yeve my body; for alwey I warne yow wel, it is no childes pley 1530 To take a wyf with-oute avysement.
This Alla hath the face in remembrance Of dame Custance, and ther-on mused he If that the childesmoder were aught she That was his wyf, and prively he sighte, 1035 And spedde him fro the table that he mighte.
No, some of it is for my childes Father: Oh how full of briers is this working day world Cel.
And when it breakes, I feare will issue thence The foule corruption of a sweet childes death Iohn.
Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender Of my Childes loue: I thinke she will be rul'd In all respects by me: nay more, I doubt it not.
But she not acquainted with such kind of surgery, plucked those salues away, and by continuall licking with her owne tongue, not much vnlike our dogs, healed vp the childes arme.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "childes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
