And, for thy part, thou shalt have oon of tho 425 To abrigge with thy bittre peynes smerte; Absence of hir shal dryve hir out of herte.
And thus thou shalt the tyme wel bigyle, And dryve it forth un-to that blisful morwe, 405 That thou hir see, that cause is of thy sorwe.
Thanne turnede I me forth, And talked to myselfe Of the falshede of this folke, Whow feythles thei weren.
Such lucre is non above grounde, Which is noght of tho racches founde; 4390 For wher thei se beyete sterte, That schal hem in no wise asterte, Bot thei it dryve into the net Of lucre, which Usure hath set.
Bot as a man that wolde him save, Whan he is seck, be medicine, Riht so of love the famine I fonde in al that evere I mai To fiede and dryve forth the day, Til I mai have the grete feste, Which al myn hunger myhte areste.
And eek sir, ye moste dryve coveitise out of your herte.
And thanne shul ye dryve fro your herte three thinges that been contrariouse to good conseil, / that is to seyn, ire, coveitise, and hastifnesse.
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.
Ther may no man out of the place it dryve For noon engyn of windas or polyve; And cause why, for they can nat the craft.
Shamfast she was in maydens shamfastnesse, 55 Constant in herte, and ever in bisinesse To dryvehir out of ydel slogardye.
But sooth is this, how that this fresshe May Hath take swich impression that day, For pitee of this syke Damian, That from hir herte she ne dryve can 1980 The remembraunce for to doon him ese.
And sir, ye moste also dryve out of your herte hastifnesse; for certes, / ye ne may nat deme for the beste a sodeyn thought that falleth in youre herte, but ye moste avyse yow on it ful ofte.
Lordes may finden other maner pley Honeste y-nough to dryvethe day awey.
I trowe thou seke to dryve awey nede with habundaunce of thinges; but certes, it torneth to you al in the contrarie.
Which is the manere or the gyse,' quod she, 'that richesse may dryve awey nede?
This satisfyed, for that tyme, the hoill assemblie: And this was the practise of the Quene and of hir Counsall, with fair wordis to dryve tyme, as befoir we have said.
But that was onlie to dryve tyme, as the treuth declaired the self.
Hyllyngworth to dryve it over this terme, allegged varians be twyx the bille and the testament that John Damme was named in the testament John Dawme, in whiche cas now the Court must have sigth of the said testament.
Tho wolde the baylies that were come from Fraunce, 25 Dryve the Flemisshe that made the destaunce; Hue turnden hem ayeynes with suerd ant with launce, Stronge men ant lyht.
I wold geve my gold," she saith, "And so I wolde my fee, For a blaste of the wesleyn wind To dryve the smoke from thee.
Of god they seme nothing a-ferd; As lusty liveth, as Lamuall, And dryve hir sheep into desert; 435 All such faytours shull foul fall!
Her loving herte and constant to her lay Dryve out of remembraunce I ne may.
Me thinketh, suche shep[h]erdes ben to wyte Ayen hir sheep with swerd that contend; They dryve hir sheep with greet dispyte; But al this god may well amend.
An heep of heremytes Henten hem spades, And kitten hir copes, And courtepies hem maked, And wente as werkmen With spades and with shoveles And dolven and dikeden, To dryveawey hunger.
And thys schold be do as to morow at aftyr non; bot I trow they wole but tak a distres for the servys of the maner, whych is dwe; but I have sent word to Rysyng and to the tenauntis that they schold dryve a wey ther catell.
So they answerd me your offyr was more then resonabyll; and if the mater wer thers, they seyd, they wyst what conscyence wold dryve hem to.
As for mony, I can none get, neyther at Snaylewell nor at Sporle tyll mydsomer, thow I wold dryve all the catell they have.
Into sa gret perrellys and in sik cace Me catchit thus, and dryve quhidder?
Troianys infeir Violens to mak with brandis of mortall weir Agane Latynys, syk onkowth heritage Tyll occupy and subdew in bondage, 30 And thar catale in spreth to dryve away?
The steill helmys we thrist on hedis hair; Best likis ws all tyme to rug and reif, To dryve away the spreth, and tharon leif.
Our falloschip thir fowlys gan invayd, 30 And onkouth kynd of batail dyd assay, With wapynnys forto bet and dryve away Thir laithly sey byrdis of syk effeir.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dryve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
