But now help god to quenchen al this sorwe, So hope I that he shal, for he best may; For I have seyn, of a ful misty morwe 1060 Folwen ful ofte a mery someres day; And after winter folweth grene May.
For-why 125 forleten they vertues and folwen vyces?
Tigris and Eufrates resolven and springen of oo welle, in the cragges of the roche of the contree of Achemenie, ther-as the fleinge bataile ficcheth hir dartes, retorned in the brestes of hem that folwen hem.
The yerde is bet that bowen wole and winde Than that that brest; and therfor I yow rede To folwen him that so wel can yow lede.
And yif this thing be ones y-graunted and received, that is to seyn, that ther nis no free wille, than sheweth it wel, how greet destruccioun and how grete damages ther folwen of thinges of mankinde.
For the barn was born in Bethleem, That with his blood shal save Alle that lyven in feith And folwen his felawes techynge.
Thise toknes haven freres taken; But I trowe that a fewe 1380 Folwen fully that cloth, But falslyche that useth.
Man was mad of suche matere, He may nat wel asterte, That som tymes hym tit To folwen hus kynde.
He folwen nought Fraunceis, But falsliche lybben; And Austynes rewle They rekeneth but a fable; And purchaseth hem privilege Of popes at Rome.
Lat the loseles alone, And leve thou the trewthe; For these maystres of dyvynite Many, als I trowe, Folwen nought fully the feith, As fele of the lewede.
Loke hough this loresmen Lordes betrayen, Seyn that they folwen Fully Fraunceyses rewle, 580 That in cotinge of his cope Is more cloth y-folden Than was in Fraunceis froc Whan he hem first made.
Than folwen the names of the Halidayes in the Kalender, and next hem the lettres of the Abc.
I wol thee folwen deed, and I wol be Felawe and cause eek of thy deeth,' quod she.
Thilke manere of folk been the flyes that folwen the hony, or elles the houndes that folwen the careyne.
Of this sinne, as seith the wyse man, folwen manye harmes.
O, wiste a man how many maladyes Folwen of excesse and of glotonyes, He wolde been the more mesurable 515 Of his diete, sittinge at his table.
Al your plesaunce wol I folwen fayn; But yet I hope it be nat your entente That I smoklees out of your paleys wente.
Here folwen the Wordes of the Worthy Hoost to the Frankeleyn; Pt.
For which she folweth yow ful bisily, Right so the see desyreth naturelly To folwen hir, as she that is goddesse Bothe in the see and riveres more and lesse.
This were a wikkede wey, 3794 But who so hadde a gyde, That wolde folwen us ech a foot;" Thus this folke hem mened.
For man was maad of swich a matere, He may noght wel a-sterte That ne som tyme hym bitit 7360 To folwen his kynde.
Al your pleisauns wold I folwen fayn;[153] follow gladly But yit I hope it be not youre entente, intention That I smocles out of your paleys wente.
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.
Faced with these perplexities, beginners might well echo the words of Langland's pilgrims in search of Truth: This were a wikked way, but whoso hadde a gyde That wolde folwen vs eche a fote.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "folwen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
