But ofte it hath befal, Robyn, A man hath be dysgrate; 190 But god that syteth in heven above May amend his state.
But natheles, as heven gan tho turne, To badde aspectes hath she of Saturne, That made her for to deyen in prisoun, As I shal after make mencioun.
And touchend of the remenaunt, Which is the thridde of your axinges, What lest is worth of alle thinges, And costeth most, I telle it pride, Which may nought in the heven abide.
There was pride of to grete cost Whan he for pride hath heven lost; And after that in Paradise Adam for pride lost his prise In middel-erth.
In heven and yerth honoured be the name Of Jupyter, who of his godly goodnes Hath set this mater in so goodly frame, That every wyght shall have his desyre, doutles.
But oft it hath befal, Robyn, A man hath be disgrate; But God that sitteth in heven above May amende his state.
Thus endeth the lives of these good yemen; God send them eternall blysse, And all that with hand-bowe shoteth, That of heven they may never mysse!
Thus than holpe hym good Robyn, The knyght all of his care: God, that syt in heven hye, Graunte us well to fare!
He that made heven and erthe and sonne and mone for to schine, Bring ous into his riche and scheld ous fram helle pine!
Swich was the confession of the publican, that wolde nat heven up hise eyen to hevene, for he hadde offended god of hevene; for which shamefastnesse he hadde anon the mercy of god.
And he slow Cacus in a cave of stoon; He slow the geaunt Antheus the stronge; He slow the grisly boor, and that anoon, And bar the heven on his nekke longe.
For, by that lord that sit in heven above, Lever ich hadde dyen on a knyf, Than thee offende, trewe dere wyf!
Consyderynge the grete goodnesse of almyghty God creatour of heven and erthe, and al thynge therin comprehended to whom be eternall laude and prays etc.
Also ye witen never whether that man or woman be in state to be saved or damned; than shall 250 he have no merit in heven for his owne dedes, ne for none other mans.
The Evangely bereth witness A lamb, he lykneth Christ over-all, In tokening that he mekest was, Sith pryde was out of heven fall.
Pees is the cheef of al the worldes welthe, And to the heven it ledeth eek the way; Pees is of soule and lyfe the mannes helthe 80 Of pestilence, and doth the werre away.
What herte, what reson, what understandinge can make his heven to be 85 feled and knowe, without assaye in doinge?
But we knowe many that han geten the blisse of hevenafter their deth.
And but a man to them [him] shryves, To heven come never he shall; 290 He shal be cursed as be captyves, To hell they sayn that he shall fall.
Is nat every thing, a this halfe god, mad buxom to mannes contemplation, understandinge in heven and 40 in erthe and in helle?
Wherfore in heven to 125 ben losed with god hath non ende, but endlesse endureth; and thou canst nothing don aright, but thou desyre the rumour therof be heled and in every wightes ere; and that dureth but a pricke in respecte of the other.
Celi enarrant,' said the popingay, 'Your might is told in heven and firmament.
And thus in that heven +togider shul they dwelle perpetuelly, without any imaginatyfe yvel in any halve.
The Lord of Heven requite you, for I and my poore frends shall never be able, and so with teares I humblie take my leave.
For it was, on to beholde As thogh the erthe envye wolde To be gayer than the heven To have mo floures, swiche seven As in the welken sterres be.
Heven in the Hoxford and Cambridge Clubb, fellers were a speculatin.
God graunt al housbandes that beon in this place To wynne so hevenfor his hooly grace.
And as the masse was fynysshed, I recounted to Charles the vysyon whyche I had seen, how thaungellys of heven bare the soule of Roulland into Paradys, and the devylles bare the soule of a sarasyn into helle.
And as I was in the secrete of the masse I was ravysshed, and herd the aungellys of heven synge and make grete melodye.
And as I sawe the aungellys mount into heven on hye, I saw comynge a grete legyon of knyghtes alle blacke ageynst me, the whych bere a praye whereof they made grete noyse.
The two first lines are: "Jesu Crist, heven king Al ous graunt gode ending.
The Cambridge copy thus: "Heven blys that all shall wynne.
It is in distichs, and begins thus: "Ihesu Crist of heven kyng.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heven" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
