Their busy hertes passen to and fro, They be so wel reclaymed to the lure, So wel lerned hem to withholde also, 635 And al to chaunge, whan love shuld best endure.
Chaucer translates: 'Thou hast lerned by the sentence of Plato, that nedes the wordes moten be cosines to the thinges of which they speken'; see vol.
I see wel that ye lerned men in lore Can moche good, by goddes dignitee!
I wol yow telle a tale which that I Lerned at Padowe of a worthy clerk, As preved by his wordes and his werk.
Myn hous is streit, but ye han lerned art; Ye conne by argumentes make a place A myle brood of twenty foot of space.
I sleep never on the mount of Pernaso, Ne lerned Marcus Tullius Cithero.
Hir thoughte that a lady sholde hir spare, What for hir kinrede and hir nortelrye That she had lerned in the nonnerye.
Ther comen also ful many subtile flatereres, and wyse advocats lerned in the lawe.
He was also a lerned man, a clerk, 480 That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche; His parisshens devoutly wolde he teche.
For unto shrewes Ioye it is and ese To have hir felawes in peyne and disese; Thus was I ones lerned of a clerk.
Thou wylt saye, what lerned man wyll lowly hys wyt to these so small thynges?
That thynge made hys friendes hope that in time to come he wolde be a well lerned manne.
It nedeth not to rehearse that in those first yeres certen thinges be easely lerned, which be more hard to be lerned whẽ we be elder.
Neyther for thys muste we call chyldren to lerne the tonges after sixtene yere olde, because that the elder Cato lerned latine, and Greeke, when he was thre score and ten yeres olde.
Beholde how excellently lerned in the olde tyme men were in their youth, and how in oure daies they that be aged be hable to do nothyng in studie?
For it is very easely lerned, that is lerned in time conueniente.
Also how lytle soeuer it be that the former age doth bringe, yet shal the chylde lerne greater thynges, euen in the same yeres, when smaller shuld haue ben lerned, if he had not lerned them before.
But Cato of Vtica muche better lerned then the other and more eloquent, when he was a chylde was continuallye wyth hys master Sarpedo.
It is neuer lerned tymely inoughe that neuer is ended.
Themistocles within a yeres space lerned perfitely the Persians tong because he wolde the better cõmen wyth the kyng.
Adde vnto thys the names of all thynges, in the whych it is meruell to see howe now a dayes, yea euẽ they be blind which are taken for wellerned mẽ.
How shall he waxe liberal whẽ he is old, which being so litel hath lerned to meruell at money & gold?
And what a profite shuld it haue bene to lernynge, if in stede of these moste vaine garringes, not only folyshe, but also hurtfull, wee had lerned those thynges that we rehearsed a litle before.
Trewly, madame, it shuld be necessary to be better lerned in good Certes, madame, il seroit necessaire destre mieulz qualifiéz ez bonnes lettres than I am for to satisfy to your question.
He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Criste's gospel trewely wolde preche, His parishens devoutly wolde he teche.
Alle the seyd lerned men telle me trewely ther is nother perill ne doubte in the takyng doun of the instrument and the bille to no creature.
And if ze thinke it to many lerned men, take ze one, and he another; and if they may not accorde, ze and I to be umpere, for we stande bothe in like cas.
And by side this the seid Prisot wolde suffre no man that was lerned to speke for the pleyntyfs, but took it as a venom, and took them by the nose at every thred woord whiche myght weel by knowe for open parcialte.
And John Jeney enformed me, and as I have verely lerned sethen, ye ar inbylled to be made knygth at this Coronacion.
Please yow to wete that I hafe remembred of the langage that I hafe late lerned W.
I trust; not with standyng I suppose lerned men wyll not be easy for to gete be cause of this besy tyme of hervest.
It was so prety a fole, It wold syt on a stole, And lerned after my scole For to kepe his cut, With, Phyllyp, kepe your cut!
Her thoughte that a lady sholde hir spare, What for hir kinrede and hir nortelrye That she had lernedin the nonnerye.
He is so lerned and drags in illusions to other grate authers but when you can auth as nice as what I can there isnt realy no need.
This Animal is wonderfull clever and lerned and plays at marbles with the Tadd.
He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Christe's Gospel treweley would preche.
We lernedther the Rudiments of the Latin grammar, with the vocables in Latin and French, also divers speitches in Frenche, with the reading and right pronunciation of that toung.
And thilke tyme I ferde so 785 I was able to havelerned tho, And to have coud as wel or better, Paraunter, other art or letter.
Of the whiche litel regioun of this worlde, the ferthe partye is enhabited with livinge bestes that we knowen, as thou thyself hast y-lerned by Tholomee that proveth it.
Platonis), desired to putten forth in execucioun and in acte of comune administracioun thilke 30 thinges that I hadde lerned of thee among my secree resting-whyles.
A compendious and a very fruitful treatise teaching the waye of dyenge well, written to a frende by the floure of lerned men of his tyme, Thomas Lupsete, Londoner, late deceassed, on whose sowle Jesu have mercy.
Well after we had lerned how he put a ox chane on to us and then he went out and begun to holler.
He stated that he was the son of a labouring man living at Boston, Lincolnshire, and that he "lerned gramer by the space of 2 yeres.
Now is not that of God a full fayre grace That swiche a lewed mannes wit shall face The wisdom of an hepe of lerned men?
A fewe termes coude he, two or three, That he had lerned out of some decree; No wonder is, he herd it all the day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lerned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
