To hir he wroot yet ofte tyme al newe Ful pitously, he lefte it nought for slouthe, Biseching hir that, sin that he was trewe, 1585 She wolde come ayein and holde hir trouthe.
Why trowe ye my fader in this wyse Coveiteth so to see me, but for drede Lest in this toun that folkes me dispyse 1340 By-cause of him, for his unhappy dede?
Saturn says:-- 'Myn is the prison in the derke cote, Myn is the strangling and hanging by the throte.
Chaucer has 'vertu, cler-shyninge naturelly is hid in derke derknesses'; bk.
The brihte Sonne be the morwe Beschyneth noght the derke nyht, The lusti youthe of mannes myht, In Age bot it stonde wel, Mistorneth al the laste whiel.
The dai made ende and lost his lyht, And comen was the derke nyht, Which al the daies yhe blente.
Bot hou so that the dai be long, The derke nyht comth ate laste: God wolde noght thei scholden laste, 580 And schop the lawe in such a wise, That thei thurgh dom to the juise Be dampned forto be forlore.
Forthi unto thi myhtes hyhe, As thou which art the daies yhe, Of love and myht no conseil hyde, Upon this derke nyhtes tyde With al myn herte I thee beseche That I plesance myhte seche With hire which lith in min armes.
For Falssemblant hath everemo 1890 Of his conseil in compaignie The derke untrewe Ypocrisie, Whos word descordeth to his thoght: Forthi thei ben togedre broght Of o covine, of on houshold, As it schal after this be told.
Bot so prive mai be nothing, That it ne comth to knowleching; Thing don upon the derke nyht Is after knowe on daies liht: 4600 So it befell, that ate laste Al that this slyhe maiden caste Was overcast and overthrowe.
Hir freendes sawe hir sorwe gan to slake, And preyede hir on knees, for goddes sake, To come and romen hir in companye, Awey to dryve hir derke fantasye.
And vertu cler-shyninge naturelly is hid in derke derkenesses, and the rightful man bereth the blame and the peyne of the feloun.
Certes, it is leveful to the hevene to make clere dayes, and, after that, to coveren tho same dayes with derke nightes.
The sterres shynen more agreably whan the wind 5 Nothus leteth his ploungy blastes; and after that Lucifer the day-sterre hath chased awey the derke night, the day the fairere ledeth the rosene hors of the sonne.
And eek, yif that he ne knowe nat why that the hornes of the fulle mone wexen pale and infect by the boundes of the derke night; and how the mone, derk and confuse, discovereth the sterres that 10 she hadde y-covered by hir clere visage.
For cloudy and derke is thilke thought, and bounde with brydles, where-as thise thinges regnen.
In the line, "Myn is the prison in the derke cote;" imprisonment is for the second time attributed to Saturn's influence.
I slow Sampsoun in shaking the piler; And myne be the maladyes colde, The derke tresons, and the castes olde; My loking is the fader of pestilence.
The moon "with derke hornes" refers of course to the waning moon, a thin crescent near the sun and almost obscured in his light, which approaching nearer the sun is entirely lost to our view in his rays and becomes the new moon.
And nexte to her was god Pluto set ΒΆ Wyth a derke myste enuyrond al about.
Min ben also the maladies colde, The derke tresons, and the castes olde: My loking is the fader of pestilence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "derke" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
