I cannot say whether she repented her or not, as the matter was so forwarde, that both she and her husbande were in grete peryll: howbeit, fynally, she must as then abyde the adventure.
Therfore consyderynge the tyme I have taryed at Parys in the pursute of this and the grete coste and expence done bycause of this.
Item, I pray you send hastely word how that ye wyll that we be gydyd with thys place, for as it ys told me, it ys lyke to stond in as grete jupardy in hast as othere don.
And ye have many grete materis on hand and may not have to bere them ought, ner to save your ryght, withaught ye myght for a tyme takyn of your faderis godes.
And ther my mastres was withine, and my mastre, Sir John, and hathe gate hym as grete worschip for that day as any gentleman myght doo, and so is it reported of the partye and in all Norwiche.
Grete bost thay make that the Duck shold have Drayton in peas, and after thys Haylesdon, and that with in short tyme; thay er moch the bolder, I suppose, by cause that ye be wher as ye be.
And on the next mornyng after Mr. Phylyp and the Baylly of Cosshay com to Haylysdon with a grete nomber of pepell, that ys to say viij.
Calle and other can tell you of hys demenyng; and I pray you that ye be not dysplesyd for his abydyng with me, for in gode feth he hath ben a gretecomfort to me syn ye departyd hens, as I wyll lete you wyte hereafter.
I grete you wele and send you Goddis blissyng and myn; letyng you wete that I send you be the berer herof xlli.
Ryght welbeloved servaunt, y grete yow hertly welle, sertefyng that we shulle be at fulle age on Fryday nexst comyng.
Pryme rolles, and in the Grete Herball, Primet, as shortened from Primprint.
In the Grete Herball this plant was called Mary Gowles.
It is a plant," says the Grete Herball, "whereof is made a manner of lynke if it be tallowed.
And at this wurde the priores smylid & hadd grete mervayle of the damysell conseyte[897].
And in that place fulle besyly I walked whyle I myght enduer, And saw how dame enevy In every corner had grete cure; Sche bare the keyes of many a dore.
And there ben also myse, als gret as houndes; and zalowe myse, als grete as ravenes.
And thus wenten many dyverse lusty bacheleres for to sle grete lords, in dyverse countrees, that weren his enemyes, and maden hem self to ben slayn, in hope to have that paradys.
The kyng of that yle is fulle ryche and fulle myghty: and natheles he holt his lond of thegrete Chane, and is obeyssant to hym.
This kyngdom strecchethe him towardes Turkye, and toward the grete see: and toward the south, it marchethe to the grete Armenye.
And betweene that ryvere and the grete see ocean, that thei clepen the see maure, lyzn alle theise Roialmes.
Of the Emperour of Persye, and of the lond of darknesse and of other Kyngdomes, that belongen to the grete Chane of Cathay, and other Londes of his, unto the See of Greece.
From that lond, in returnynge be 10 jorneyes thorghe out the lond of the grete Chane, is another gode yle, and a gret kyngdom, where the kyng is fulle riche and myghty.
And alle theise degrees ben bordured with fyn gold, with the tother precious stones, sett with grete perles oryent.
And there ben vynes, that beren so grete grapes, that a strong man scholde have y now to done, for to bere o clustre with alle the grapes.
This Emperour Prestre John takethe alle weys to his wif, the doughtre of the grete Chane: and the gret Chane also in the same wise, the doughtre of Prestre John.
And there ben nouther thefes ne robboures in that contree; and every man worschipethe othere: but no man there dothe no reverence to no straungeres, but zif thei ben grete princes.
Then was ther a Dragon grete and grimme, Full of fyre and also venymme, With a wide throte and tuskes grete.
Though lacking in the charm of the quaint and typically English Banckes's Herbal, the most famous of the early printed herbals was the Grete Herball printed by Peter Treveris in 1526.
Certainly when one reads this anonymous work known as Banckes's Herbal one is struck not only by its superiority to the later and more famous Grete Herball, but also by its greater charm.
But with the exception of the preface the Grete Herball is a translation of the well-known French herbal, Le Grant Herbier.
The Grete herball, which is translated out ye Frensshe into Englysshe.
The instruction to bind on with red is found even in theGrete Herball of 1526.
Edition of "The Grete Herball" mentioned in Ames and Pulteney.
Now schalle I telle you the governance of the court of the grete Cham.
Then shal rejoysen of a grete empryse Acheved wel.
Susteynid is not by personis lowe, But cobbis grete this riote sustene.
Ye lat me peyne here in a peynfull pewe, That is a place of grete doloures.
It is understand ryght now in this countre be such as cleyme to be frendly to you in what grete daunger and nede ye stande in, bothe to diverse of your frendis and to your elmyse.
Therfore I pray you help her, for, so God help me, I have right gret pete on her, and it is right grete almes to help her, and I trow she wull put her most trost and sewe specialle to you.
I grete you wele; letyng you wete that on Saterday last past within nyght the felesshep at Cayster tokyn ought of Mawtby Cloos xvj.
I grete zow welle, and send zow Goddes blyssyng and myn, letyng zow wete that I have a letter from zour brother, wherby I undyrstand that he cannot, ner may, make no porveyans for the C.
And also there is grete prese off pepill, and fewe frendes, as ferr as we can feel yitt.
And ye myght gete leve of owr Soverayn Lord the Kyng to com hydder, hyt schall turne yow to grete wurschup and profett, to helpe make owr a poyntement in the Kyngs name, for ye sawe never suche a syght of schyppys take in to Englond this c.
Pleasyth it your gode and gracios maistershipp tendyrly to consedir the grete losses and hurts that your por peticioner haeth, and haeth jhad evyr seth the comons of Kent come to the Blakheth,[153.
Sidenote: Year uncertain] Right trusty and right intierly welbeloved, we grete you hertly wele.
Ryght trusty and welbelevyd servaunt, I grete you well.
With Arcite "the grete Emetrius, the king of Inde.
With Palamon comes "Licurge, the greteking of Trace.
And when hit is made in hokes and shulde serve the Fisher to take fisshe, when comythe hit to distresse, then for febulness hit all-to brekithe and thus is the Fissher foule disseyved to hys grete harme.
Gooth to the glose of thise vers, 9770 Ye grete clerkes; If I lye on yow to my lewed wit, Ledeth me to brennyng.
And God al his grete joye Goostliche he lefte, And cam and took mankynde, And bi-cam nedy.
Oon highte Austyn, And Ambrose another, Gregori thegrete clerk, And Jerom the goode.
God of his grete myght, {501} And his good grace, Save alle freres That feithfulli lybben!
That my mynde ne was More in my goodes, Than in Godes grace, And hus grete myghte.
And there was Conscience conestable Cristene to save, And bisegede soothly With sevene grete geauntz {438} That with Antechrist helden Harde ayein Conscience.
But freten the fruyt that the folke Ful lellich beswynketh; 1440 With travail of trewe men Thei tymbren her houses, And of the curiouse cloth Her copes they beggen; And als his gettyng is grete He shal ben good holden.
For alle paynymes preieth, And parfitly bileveth In the holy grete God, And his grace thei asken, And make hir mone to Makometh Hir message to shewe.
Tyll they cam in to the place There Jhesu and hys modyr was, Offryd they up with grete solace in fere-a Golde and sence and myrre-a.
A grete myracle of a knyghte, callyde Syr Roger Wallysborow.
Averios was a wise emperour regnyng in the cite of Rome; and he let crye a grete feste, and who so ever wold come to that feste, and gete victory in the tournament, he shuld have his doughter to wyf, after his decease.
Fulle hugelye gladde she seemeth, whenne They brynge herre a grete ratte, But styll moe gladde atte katchynge menne Ys Whyttingtone hys Catte.
Euer ⁊ oo for my leof icham in grete þohte,’ Bödd.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grete" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
