Said to be intended by the poet for a portrait of himself.
Achates, Syne al our feris of clamour micht nocht ces, 10 Bot with a voce atanys cryis, Itaill!
Syne sone assemlyt his feris all in pres, 25 Bot first of al the ancyant Acestes: The wil and plesour of Jove schew thame cleir, And eik the charge brocht by hys fader deir, And tald thame planely his mynd and desyre.
About I blent to behald, heir and thar, Quha of ourferis remanyt with me thar.
Quhen I saw this, our feris command I than Tak thar wapynnys, and bargane euery man 20 Agane tha cruell pepill, or byrdis fell.
To turn thar course he gan hisferis command, 5 And stevin thar schippis to the sammyn land: Joyfull and blith thai entring in the flude, That dern about skuggyt with bewis stude.
The noys vpsprang of mony marynar Byssy at thar wark, to takilling euery tow, 5 Thar feris exorting, with mony heys and how, To speid thame fast towart the realm of Crete, With thar forfaderis and progenitouris to mete.
Sewyn of yow ferisgraith sone, and ga with me; “Rycht sor I long Sanct Jhonstoun for to se.
Als he was glaid for reskew off thaim twa; Off thair feris leyffand was left no ma.
Gud men he had in cumpany fyfteyne, And Wallace nyne; thai war na feris ma.
This wantage was, the Scottis thaim dantyt swa, 915 Nayn Inglissman durst fra hisferis ga, To brek aray, or formast entyr in.
And the fifth:—Perpende sedulo, gustum sanguinis tam in hominibus quam in feris primæ appetitionem sui tandem cupidinem inferre.
And the sixth:—Hoc grave est, quod hominibus cum feris videmus commune, gustasse est appetere sanguinem, hausisse in deliciis habere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feris" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
