And, if hit happe me rehersen eft That they han in her fresshe songes sayd, I hope that they wil nat ben evel apayd, Sith hit is seid in forthering and honour Of hem that either serven leef or flour.
Hadde she loked that oother half, And the leef torned, She sholde have founden fele wordes Folwynge therafter, Quod bonum est tenete; Truthe that text made.
This text that ye han told Were good for lordes; Ac yow fayled a konnynge clerk That kouthe the leef han torned.
Ac Inwit is in the heed, And to the herte he loketh; What Anima is leef or looth, He lat hire at his wille; For after the grace of God, 5270 The gretteste is Inwit.
First I lerned to lye, A leef outher tweyne; Wikkedly to weye Was my firste lesson; 2880 To Wy and to Wynchestre I wente to the feyre, With many manere marchaundise, As my maister me highte.
And whan it hadde of this fold Flesshe and blood taken, Was nevere leef upon lynde Lighter therafter, 770 And portatif and persaunt As the point of a nedle, That myghte noon armure it lette, Ne none heighe walles.
Nothing so leef as deth to come to me For fynal ende of my sorowes and payn; 695 What shulde I more desyre, as seme ye?
Pardy, a man hath 105 nothing so leef as his lyf; and for to holde that, he doth al his cure and diligent traveyle.
For oon leef given of that noble tree To any wight that hath don worthily, And it be doon so as it ought to be, Is more honour then any thing erthly.
Criseyde, which that felte hir thus y-take, As writen clerkes in hir bokes olde, Right as an aspes leef she gan to quake, 1200 Whan she him felte hir in his armes folde.
Leef al this werk and tak now hede to That I shal seyn, and herkne, of good entente, This, which by me thy Troilus thee sente.
For to what fyn he wolde anoon pretende, That knowe I wel; and for-thy yet I seye, So leef this sorwe, or platly he wol deye.
And, for the love of god, my nece dere, 895 So leef this wo er Troilus be here.
Wherfore, yif any thing be so to comen, that the bitydinge of hit ne be nat certein ne necessarie, who may weten biforn that thilke 75 thing is to comen?
But glorie, how deceivable and how foul is it ofte!
Thanne seyde I, 'now am I confounded by a more hard doute than I was.
This is concluded,' quod I, 'fermely and sothfastly.
But nathelees, whan they were knit in-fere, They lived in Ioye and in felicitee; For ech of hem hadde other leef and dere.
This Somnour in his stiropes hye stood; 1665 Up-on this Frere his herte was so wood, That lyk an aspen leef he quook for yre.
Thing that is seyd, is seyd; and forth it gooth, 355 Though him repente, or be him leef or looth.
A clote-leef he hadde under his hood For swoot, and for to kepe his heed from hete.
O noble almighty Sampson, leef and dere, Had thou nat told to wommen thy secree, In al this worlde ne hadde been thy pere!
I nolde not that it pulled wer Fro the roser that it ber, To me it is so leef and dere.
This Sompnour in his styrop up he stood, Upon the Frere his herte was so wood mad That lyk an aspen leef he quok for ire.
Then she fleeced a he ram, and of the wool thereof she formed a big bussel, and Adam got mashed on her fine does, and she turned up her knoes at the washerwomans darter wot didnt have on nothin but a palm leef jursey, wot fit her too soon.
Less git down fum heah; I b'leef in m' soul Mist'r Race Hoss done beat dis race sho' nuf.
Ey'n getten leef to visit ye fo a minute only, so ey mun be brief.
But ven he comes in, she dells of him dot she lufs him orful, und he says dot he guess he lufs her orful too, und vants to know vood she leef dot place, and go oud in some oder country mit him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leef" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
