Or quho can now the workis countrafait Of Kennedie with termes aureait, Or of Dunbar, quhilk language had at large, As may be sene in-tyll his Goldin Targe?
His voice was cleir, as cristal wer his ene; As goldin wyr sa glitterand was his hair; His garmound and his gyte full gay of grene, With goldin listis gilt on every gair; Ane burely brand about his middill bair.
This goldin cart with fyry bemes bricht Four yokkit steidis, full different of hew, But bait or tyring throw the spheiris drew.
Evir as the branch for pypand wynd reboundit, 25 The goldin schakeris ratlis and resoundit.
Bot it is na wys lesum, I the schaw, Thir secret ways vndir the erd to went, 5 Quhil of the tre this goldin grayn be rent: Fair Proserpyn hes institute and command To offer hir this, hir awin propir presand.
Of Mysenus entyrment at was slane, And quhou Eneas fand the goldin grane.
Amyd a rank tre lurkis a goldin bewch, With aurial levis, and flexibill twystis tewch, 30 Onto Juno infernal consecrate, That standis lowkit abowt and obumbrate With dirk schaddowis of the thik wod schaw.
Ane othir goldin grane, to the ilk effect, Thou sal nocht mys, thocht the first be down brek; 10 Incontinent evir of the sammyn mettall Sik a lyke branch sal burgion furth withall.
Fra thyne, to mont Tarpeya he him kend, And beknyt to that sted, fra end to end, 20 Quhar now standis the goldin Capitoll, Vmquhil of wild buskis rowch skroggy knoll.
With that word, at his fa a dart leyt fle, And eftir that ane other has he cast, And syne ane other has he fixit fast, 20 About hym prekand in a cumpas large: Bot all thir dyntis sustenyt the goldin targe.
Another stanza of this kind, with the formula a a b a a b b a b5, is used in Chaucer's Complaynt of Faire Anelyda and in Dunbar's Goldin Targe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goldin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
