Than is it open and cleer that the power ne the mowinge of shrewes nis no power; and of alle thise thinges it sheweth wel, that the goodefolke ben certeinly 185 mighty, and the shrewes douteles ben unmighty.
But what is it to thise noble worthy men (for, certes, of swiche folke speke I) that seken glorie with vertu?
And after, Kyngs folke and odyr come and cryid on Annes Ball, seying to her the same.
He come in to an hyEe strete, Few folke gan~ he mete, To wis hym~ the way.
So he met folke hym agayne, Fast comynge with carte and wayne Frowarde the se.
For why I wyll the saye, 917 Moche folke of that countre Cometh heder for socoure to me, Bothe by nyghte and by daye.
The principall folke who were whole and sounde, they stoode in their zoties or house toppes, without weapon, and clothed in mätels.
He also thought, that from Spayne could not come so many folke in so shorte space.
Yet for and notwithstanding all this talke, the Lorde and all hisfolke were in great feare, and meante to arise and to lodge the receyuers.
Earle of Morton, to whom William the Conquerour his vncle, gaue much lands in those quarters, and greatly haunted, while folke endured their merits, by farre trauailing.
For testimony whereof, the olde folkethereabouts will shew you a stone, bearing Arthurs name, though now depraued to Atry.
The afternoones are consumed in such exercises, as olde and yong folke (hauing leysure) doe accustomably weare out the time withall.
Their horses shod onlie before, and for all furniture a pad and halter, on which the meaner countrie wenches of the westerne parts doe yet ride astride, as all other English folke vsed before R.
By this tale ye may perceyue (as Lycurgus proued by experience) that nourysshynge, good bryngynge vp and exercyse ben more apte to leade folke to humanite and the doynge of honest thynges than Nature her selfe.
Even the little bronze rings of hair that escaped from under her widow's cap were faithfully reproduced on the child's baby forehead.
All his usual every-day life was shut out from him.
Throckmorton, whose knowledge of Mrs. Temple was intimate, despite that long stretch of years, knew what even this small compromise had cost her.
Within the circle of that perfect repose nothing disquieting could come.
Jacqueline, seeing the change in Judith's face, went softly out of the room.
His hair and mustache were quite iron-gray, and he had the unmistakable look and carriage of a military man.
Brakers of wedlocke, men proude: and couetous: Pollers, and pykers with folke delicious.
But oft theyr folysshe stody retournes to theyr myschaunce Therfore ye bacbyters that folke thus dyffame Leue of your lewdnes and note wel this sentence.
He) late so lathely a late and sa loude cried That all the fest was aferd and othire folke bathe.
Fflorent and Floridas with fyve score knyghttez, ffollowede in the foreste, and on the way foundys, Fflyngande a faste trott, and on the folke dryffes.
For the lordes here han folk of certeyn nombre, als thei may suffise: but the grete Chane hathe every day folke at his costages and expenses, as with outen nombre.
And alle tho ben at his wages: and thei ben alle weys at him, withouten the folke of his contree, that is withouten nombre.
And the more pitty that great folke should haue countenance in this world to drowne or hang themselues, more then their euen Christian.
The occasion wherevpon the king and the duke fell out, is of diuerse folke in diuerse wise pretended.
And yet I know this hath hapned tofolke no way stained with superstition.
This is the insect most probably alluded to by Pliny, when he says, "Folke use to hang Beetles about the neck of young babes, as present remedies against many maladies.
King William bithought him alsoe of that Folke that was forlorne, And slayn also thoruz him In the bataile biforne.
Folke say it hath been sayd many yeares since gone Prove thy friend ere thou hast neede: but in deede A friend is never knone till a man have neede.
Heywood seems to have got very near to the root of the matter in these lines of his: "Many kinsfolke and few friends, some folke say: But I find many kinsfolke and friend not one.
It limps as follows:-- "But since all thing is the worse of the wearing Decay of cleene sweeping folke had in fearing.
Old folke shall dye in most places: fevers and tercians shall grieve many people: great muttering of warres: murthers shall be suddenly committed in many places for light matters.
The somer goode and feyre alsoo, Folke in eerthe shal haue gret woo.
And as tyme was she wente to dyner; and after dyner, if she wyste and knewe ony seke folke or wymmen in theyr childbedde, she went to see and vysited them, and made to be brought to them of her best mete.
Semblably he intended for to winne the plaine earth beside Spaine: the which to get, he came at pleasure to the foot of the wall, and began to beat downe the plaine ground, and to giue many skirmishes and conflicts to our folke that kept it.
A wonderful change has taken place in the Tawarah tribes, whilome pourtrayed by Sir John Mandeville as "folke fulle of alle evylle condiciouns.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "folke" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
