Swiche werkes with hem Were nevere out of seson, 8730 Til thei myghte na-moore; And thanne murye tales, And how that lecchours lovye Laughen and japen, And of hir harlotrye and horedom In hir elde tellen.
Elde And Holynesse bothe, "That wit shal torne to wrecchednesse, 6660 For wil to have his likyng.
Ghe wurd wið child, onelde wac, The birth of Isaac.
A padded line; the last half was probably, ⁊ elde forwurðen.
And Gulihelmus de couchis affirmeth the beste Bées to be aboute Thermodoon in Capadocia, abyding in the Earthe, for that these doe buylde and make a tryple yéelde of waxe, and giue also aboundaunce of Honny.
And nowe the Haruest moyster than customably doth putrifie the Grapes, and causeth a small yéelde of wines that yeare, with the scarcitie of other fruites.
So that small yéelde of corne yet plentie of Oyle shal be that yeare.
And if in the same night the wind happen to blow out of the North, then doth the same signifie the small yéelde of all fruites of the earth that yeare.
And if in the Spring be signes of colde and drought, and that in the ende of the spring neare the full moone be frostes, then shall follow very small yéelde of the fruites of the earth, and little wine that yere following.
Than mycht men heir folk gret and cry, 215 And mony a knycht and ek lady Mak in apert richt evill cher; Sa did thai all that evir thair wer: All men hym menyt comonly, For of his elde he wes worthy.
And of his kynrik passit was Fif yheir; and wes the yher of grace Ane thousand thre hundreth and sevinty And fif, and of his elde sexty.
Pardee, as faire as ye his name emplastre, He was a lechour and an ydolastre; And in his elde he verray god forsook.
Men sholde wedden after hir estaat, For youthe and elde is often at debaat.
For elde is comen unwarly upon me, hasted by the harmes that I have, and sorow hath comaunded his age to be 10 in me.
My fader, as ye knowen wel, pardee, Is old, andelde is ful of coveityse.
Al be 60 it so that, certes, thilke wrytinges profiten litel; the whiche wrytinges long and derk elde doth awey, bothe hem and eek hir autours.
Hir acqueyntaunce wolde no man fele, Ne han of Elde companye, Men hate to be of hir alye.
Where Elde abit, I wol thee telle Shortly, and no whyle dwelle, 4990 For thider bihoveth thee to go.
And that yée yéelde and pay vnto him the tributes, customes and seruice that ye were wont to pay vnto me, and in so doyng, ye can doe me no greater pleasure.
Cortes comforted him with faire words, giuyng him hope of life and seniory, and tooke him vp into a zotie, requiring him to commaund his subiectes to yéelde and render themselues: he obeyed his request.
And yet scriptures for greet elde so ben defased, that 115 no perpetualte may in hem ben juged.
And thanne, as I behield, Me thoghte I sih upon the field, Where Elde cam a softe pas Toward Venus, ther as sche was.
And Elde auntred hym on lyf, And at the laste he hitte A phisicien with a furred hood, That he fel in a palsie, And there dyed that doctour Er thre dayes after.
So longe sche fedde hem in feere þat þey were of elde of seuen [gh]ere.
My sone schal it wel [gh]elde þee; I schal him telle when I him se.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elde" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
