And so bifel, this Iuge his eyen caste Up-on this mayde, avysinge him ful faste, As she cam forby ther this Iuge stood.
Thus, whan that night was discussed and chased a-wey, derknesses forleften me, and to myneyen repeirede ayein hir firste strengthe.
Now torne and flitte the eyen of thy 105 thought; for ther shalt thou sen anon thilke verray blisfulnesse that I have bihight thee.
And forthy, yif thou semest fayr, thy nature maketh nat that, but the desceivaunce of the feblesse of the eyen that loken.
On which I saw him first with eyen tweyne, That causeth me, and I him, al this peyne!
With that a fewe brighte teres newe Out of hir eyen fille, and thus she seyde, 'Now god, thou wost, in thought ne dede untrewe To Troilus was never yet Criseyde.
This Troilus ful ofte hir eyen two Gan for to kisse, and seyde, 'O eyen clere, It were ye that wroughte me swich wo, Ye humble nettes of my lady dere!
Had I had no better cause than that last, I would have bought me a French hood as fair, if I had need to send to Paternoster Row [Note 2] for it, and feasted mine eyen thereon.
How kind are the awful eyen that no foeman durst behold!
O woe for the well-watched Signy, how often on that day Must she send her helpless eyen adown the woodland way!
And hiseyen were nothing dimmer than on many a joyous tide.
Belike she never heard him; she lay in her misery, And the slow tears gushed from her eyen and nought of the world would she see.
Now the first of the twain spake Gripir: "Hail King with the eyen bright!
Your eyen two wol slee me sodenly, I may the beaute of hem not sustene, So woundeth hit through-out my herte kene.
And but your word wol helen hastily My hertes wounde, whyl that hit is grene, Your eyen two wol slee me sodenly, I may the beaute of hem not sustene.
And all the Tartars have small eyen and little of beard, and not thick haired but shear.
Hys hode hangynge over hyseyen two, He rode in symple aray; 90 A soryer man than he was one Rode never in somers-day.
The kynge was wonder wroth withall, And swore by the trynyte, "I wolde I had Robyn Hode, With eyen I myght hym se.
So saying to the helm he clung, nor ever left his hold, And all the while the stars above his eyen toward them drew.
The fearful mothers on the walls theireyen after sent, Following the dusty cloud of them and ranks of glittering brass.
Ah, is aught better now than aught, when Juno utter great, Yea and the Father on all this with evil eyen wait?
There angry Pallas's arms they wrought and Ægis full of fear, And set the gold and serpent scales, and did with mighty care The knitted adders, and for breast of very God did deck The Gorgon rolling eyen still above her severed neck.
Then anon the air began to wax clear, and the sun to shine fair and bright, the which was right in the Frenchmen's eyen and on the Englishmen's backs.
And of the wauerynge of thy mynde / thyn eyen / & other vnmanerly behauyour of all thy body.
So conne tho men dissimulen and feyne With stonding dropes in hir eyen tweyne, When that hir hertes feleth no distresse, 20 To blinden women with hir doublenesse.
Ther may non make the pees, but only ye, Which ar the ground and cause of al this werre; For with your eyen the letters written be, 255 By which I am defyed and put a-fer.
For trewly, that is sacrilege; and that shal have no sort with any of my servauntes; in myne eyen shal suche thing nat be loked after.
Wherfore he that 15 wol this way knowe, must leve the loking after false wayes out-forth, and open the eyen of his conscience, and unclose his herte.
These thinges to thinke in myn herte maketh every day weping in myn eyen to renne.
Mirrour of beaute, for you out shuld I ringe, In remembraunce eke of your eyen clere, Thus fer from you, my soverain lady dere!
Other or me if ye list to beholde, 265 Our eyen are made to loke; why shuld we spare?
That oon maketh men blynde; that other openeth their 100 eyen in shewinge of wrecchidnesse.
XXIII His hood hang’d in his eyen two; He rode in simple array; A sorrier man than he was one Rode never in summer day.
LXXIV Then Cloudesley cast hiseyen asyde And saw hys brethren stande At a corner of the market place, With theyr good bowes bent in theyr hand.
And the water washed his eyen and he could not speak.
She was even more goodly to look upon than her sisters and of a great debonnair gentleness in her manners, tall with eyen gray as glass and hair of a rippling gold.
And he was all armed save he carried his bassenet; on his arm was a long-pointed shield painted with his armory, and his face was wasted and sad and his eyen blue as Thames water.
The folk hir folwen wepyng in hir weye, follow her And fortune ay thay cursen as thay goon; curse But she fro wepyng kept hir eyen dreye, dry Ne in this tyme word ne spak sche noon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eyen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
