The birde once limde doth feare the fatall bush, And I the haplesse maile to one poore bird, Haue now the fatall obiect in mine eie, Where my poore young was limde, was caught & kild.
After this dangerous fight and haplesse warre, How doth my noble brother Richard fare?
That word Revenge Startles my sleepy Soule, now thoroughly wakend By the fresh object of my haplesse childe Whose wrongs reach beyond mine.
A smal offence comparde with my disease; No doubt ingratitude in time may cease And be forgot: my grief out lives all howres, Raining on my head continual, haplesse showers.
My maister unawares escapt my mouth; But what the Lord doth please shall come to light, Cannot be hid by humaine pollicie: His haplesse hand hath wrought the fatall end Of Robert Beech and Thomas Winchester.
Nay, did she live, she would not challenge me To be the father of that haplesse sonne.
O, deare boy, What haplessefate exposd thee to the veiw Of this [sic] sad mothers sorrowes?
Not for thy selfe but for thy haplesse mother, Who am, without it, nothing.
You have inflam'd my hearte; oh quench that flame Or into cinders turne my haplesse truncke, Haplesse in being unbelov'd by you.
Lord Cassimeere, this is the haplesse Jewell That represents the form of Alberdure, Given by Cornelia at our fatall feast.
See, ruthlesse Queene, a haplesse Fathers Teares: This Cloth thou dipd'st in blood of my sweet Boy, And I with Teares doe wash the blood away.
And is the point of death now turnd fro mee, That I may tell this haplesse history?
XII Ensample make° of him your haplesse joy, 100 And of my selfe now mated, as ye see; Whose prouder vaunt that proud avenging boy Did soone pluck downe and curbd my libertie.
Oh then prynce Henrye sad dyd sighe, Hys hearte alle fulle of woe: That haplesse prince ybeate hys breaste, And faste hys teares 'gan flowe.
Ensample make of him your haplesse ioy, 2 And of my selfe now mated, as ye see; Whose prouder vaunt that proud auenging boy 4 Did soone pluck downe, and curbd my libertie.
And is the point of death now turnd fro mee, 4 That I may tell this haplesse history?
I promist Idaes loue vnto the Prince, But shee is lost, and I am false forsworne: I practis'd Dorotheas haplesse death, And by this practise haue commenst a warre.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haplesse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
