Walys ensample mycht have bene To yhow, had yhe it forow sene.
He set ensample thus mydlike, The-quhethir he micht, mar manerlik, Lyknyt hym to Gaudifer de Larys, Quhen that the mychty duk Betys Assailyheit in Gadyrris the forrayours.
Chaucer appears not to have inflected this word in the second person: "Also ryght as thou were ensample of moche folde errour, righte so thou must be ensample of manifold correction.
In alle manere angres Have this at herte, That theigh thei suffrede al this, God suffrede for us moore, In ensample we sholde do so, And take no vengeaunce Of oure foes that dooth us falsnesse, That is oure fadres wille.
Ac he suffrede in ensample {311} That we sholde suffren also, And seide to swiche that suffre wolde, That patientes vincunt.
Veriliest, I wis not what he had done so much worser than other men, that so awesome an ensample should be made of him.
But if the mother is not prudent in all ways, what sort of anensample is she, alas, to the daughters?
Thou Beauty filled with sweetness, O provide Ensample kindling me to do and dare, And bring my ship in honour's port to ride!
For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust; Well ought a preest ensample for to give, By his clenenesse how his shepe shulde live.
To drawen folk to heaven with fairenesse, By good ensample was his businesse.
This noble ensample to his sheep he gaf[286] That first he wrought, and afterward he taught.
And by this conclusioun maystow take ensample in alle the signes, be they moist or drye, or moeble or fix; rekening the qualitee of the planete as I first seide.
Ensample as thus: par aventure, the altitude of A in the evening is 56 degrees of heyghte.
On Iasoun this ensampleis wel y-sene By Isiphile and Medea the quene.
Sidenote: An ensample whiche proveth that horsemen with staves, cannot prevaile against footemen with Pikes, and what great advauntage the armed have, againste the unarmed.
King Arthur after the death of his father led the highest life and most gracious that ever king led, in such sort that all the princes and all the barons took ensample of him in well-doing.
For this cause I obtained mercy, that in me as chief might Jesus Christ show forth all His long-suffering, for an ensample of them which should hereafter believe on Him unto eternal life.
Mi fader, I am amorous, Wherof I wolde you beseche That ye me som ensample teche, 2260 Which mihte in loves cause stonde.
Mi Sone, do nomore so: For after that a man poursuieth To love, so fortune suieth, Fulofte and yifth hire happi chance To him which makth continuance To preie love and to beseche; As be ensample I schal thee teche.
O thou, which alle love ungladest, 5680 And art ensample of alle untrewe, Nou wolde god mi Soster knewe, Of thin untrouthe, hou that it stod!
Thus hield the lawe his rihte weie, Which fond no let of covoitise: The world stod than upon the wise, 2780 As be ensample thou myht rede; And hold it in thi mynde, I rede.
Forthi if that it be thi wille To stonde upon amendement, A tale of gret entendement I thenke telle for thi sake, Wherof thou miht ensample take.
Be this ensample it mai well suie That man schal homicide eschuie, For evere is merci good to take, Bot if the lawe it hath forsake 2620 And that justice is therayein.
By his demeanor Prometheus has become the ensampleof magnanimous endurance, and of resistance to oppression.
Nanna=, Balder's wife, is the ensample of constancy; her name is maiden.
A tale hyt ys of feyre shewyng, 260 Ensample and drede a[gh]ens cursyng.
His memory shall continue to be praised and blessed, for he was beloved of God, an ensample to us all, and his own stern judge.
An ensample of that thing that doth: The influence of the bodies above beholdeth that place or that place, more than this place or this place.
Addicted to diabolical and mischievous practices, he was a fearful ensample of those deluders given up to their own inventions to believe the very lies wherewith they attempted to deceive.
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