With that word Resoun wente hir gate, Whan she saugh for no sermoning She might me fro my foly bring.
Noon armure might hir stroke withstonde, It were foly to prece to honde.
If Foly have supprised thee, 3235 Do so that it recovered be; And be wel war to take no more Counsel, that greveth aftir sore; He is wys that wol himsilf chastyse.
Of thing to comen she woot right nought; Therfore, if it be wysly sought, Hir counseille, foly is to take.
It is but foly to entremete, To seke in houndes nest fat mete.
The foly more fro day to day Shal growe, but thou it putte away.
Than bringe they to hir remembraunce 5005 The foly dedis of hir infaunce, Which causen hir to mourne in wo That Youthe hath hir bigiled so, Which sodeynly awey is hasted.
Foly and childhood wol thee shend, 3220 Which thee have put in greet affray; Thou hast bought dere the tyme of May, That made thyn herte mery to be.
Whan thou bicam his liege man, Thou didist a gretfoly than; Thou wistest not what fel therto, With what lord thou haddist to do.
Thou dost gret foly for to leve Bialacoil here-in, to calle The yonder man to shenden us alle.
And Ecquo dyed for Narcisus 735 Nolde nat love hir; and right thus Hath many another foly don.
Of my foly I me repente; 3905 Now wol I hool sette myn entente To kepe, bothe [loude] and stille, Bialacoil to do your wille.
God forbede that it sholde falle,' Quod Pandarus, `that ye swich foly wroughte!
Than thoucht thame foly for to byde, 292 And halely the flicht can ta, And went hamward quhar thai com fra.
The English try an Ambush] The Inglis men thame umbethoucht, 405 Apon quhat maner that they moucht Ger Scottis leve thair avantage; For thame thoucht foly and outrage To gang up to thame till assale Thame at thar strynthis in playn battale.
Bot I will say the weile a thing; "That thar will fall the gret foly "To pas oft fra my cumpany.
And Catone sayis us, in his wryt, That to fenyhe foly quhile is wyt.
The Fight at Byland] The King of Ingland and his men, That saw thair herbreouris then Cum reboytit on that maneir 335 Anoyit gretly in hert thai wer, And thoucht that it war gret foly In-to the wode till tak herbery.
Thai gert thame wit that gret foly Wes, neir thair fayis for to ly, Bot gif thai trastly wachit war.
Me think it na foly to byde "Yhour men, that spedis thame to ryde.
The Douglas than, that wes worthy, Thoucht it wes foly mair till byde.
By this ye may se, it is folyfor a man to say ye or nay to a matter, excepte he knewe surely what the matter is.
By this tale a man may se, that it is but foly to shewe or to teche vertue to them, that haue no pleasure nor mynde therto.
By this tale men may se, that it is great foly to put one to scole to lerne any subtyll scyence, whiche hathe no naturall wytte.
By this tale men may lerne, that it is foly to study to speke eloquently before them, that be rude and vnlerned.
By this ye may se, it is gret foly for a man that is suspectyd with any person to praise or to name the same parson openly, lest it bryng hym in forther sclaunder.
By thys ye may se well, it is foly for any man to fere a thyng to moche, tyll that he se some profe or cause.
Let suche take example by the chatrynge pye, Whiche doth hyr nest and byrdes also betraye By hyr grete chatterynge, clamoure dyn and crye, Ryght so these folys theyr owne foly bewraye.
He that wyll answere of his owne folysshe brayne Before that any requyreth his counsayle Shewith him selfe and his hasty foly playne, Wherby men knowe his wordes of none avayle.
And oft by our foly and wylfull neglygence Our shyp is in great peryll for to synke.
Quhou was sa gretfoly and dotage Involuyt in thy mynd with fury rage?
But mannus foly and pride stie[th] vp euere more and more in [th]is veyn nouelrie.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
