By this ye se that they that couet the best parte somtyme therfore lese the meane parte and all.
Thys fyrste at hys houre apoynted came, and in the bedde chanced to lese a rynge.
On peyne” said he “to lese my«n» hede, the 12 peers were Let vs hye to Fraunce warde!
Ye haue lost inowe, lese no mo and that they ought Onworthily Olyue[rh] and Roulande.
And what then, will ye thus forgo andlese your right?
Me thynke thou shuldest abhorre suche ydylnes And passe thy tyme in some honest besynes; Better to lese some parte of thy beaute, 925 Then so ofte to jeoberd all thyne honeste.
Therfore purvey an redy remedy, or ellis ye lese the tenauntis hertis and ye gretly hurt; for it is gret pety to here the swemefull[10-2] and petowse compleyntis of the pore tenauntis that come to me for comfort and socour sometime vi.
I wold undyrstond how yt ys, and how that my seyd cosyn shall be content, for I war loth to lese my plegges; I wot yt well, yowyr good hunkyll wold ben in possessyon with good well, but I wol not soo.
Footnote 120-3: The following sentence is added in the fair copy: 'I warn yw kepe this letter clos and lese yt not; rather brenyt.
Here I was going to be shot at sunrise for this 'lese majesty' business, and now in only an hour I have a chance to make the capture of my young life!
And what is done to criminals guilty of lese majeste?
Pryour shall lesefor ever iiij^xx [four score] marc of rent, and that wythout onye concience, for they have be fals both to the Clyffordys and to me thys vij.
Lord Molyns is a gret lord, he myght soon cause hym to lese that, and meche mo.
Normaundy and abyllyments of werr, to destroy the comens of Kent whan that they come to Southewerk; and therfor he seyd playnly that I shulde lese my hede.
Never lese I trest not to her promese, in as meche as I fend hem ontrew in other thyngs.
Parsone Welle thretyd Rycheferthe that wat some ever that ze causyd Parson Welle to lese be zowre sewtes, that Rycheferthe schul lese the same to the Parson of Welle.
Motumotu to-morrow, Lese to-day; you must have a pig.
There were two Lese men with us, and they said that the Motumotu have been talking of war, not of peace; but now it may be different.
All along the coast the people were much afraid, expecting a raid, and at last news came in from Maiva that Motumotu and Lese were making great preparations that they would visit Motu, kill Tamate and Ruatoka, then attack right and left.
Nowe and thou lese thy lond,’ sayde Robyn, ‘What shall fall of thee?
That he ne shall lese his hede, That is the best ball in his hode: Give it no man, my lorde the kynge, That ye wyll any good.
Then it falleth to you Luigi: and as I have pleasure of soche a successour, so you shal satisfie your self of soche a demaunder: therefore I praie you, let us tourne to the matter, and let us lese no more tyme.
To make warre alwaies, it is not possible: to paie them alwaies it can not be: see that of necessitie, he runneth in peril to lesethe state.
But sir, I beleve that it is good, that youlese no tyme, and that you have pacience, if with these our Ceremonies we trouble you.
Lentulus, son of the flainen, who has entered a prosecution for lese majeste; secondly, Tib.
That's Lese Majesty," whispered the Herald to Billy.
Or yif he lese it, he weneth to be dispysed and forleten.
So that, for harm, that day the folk of Troye 55 Dredden to lese a greet part of hir Ioye.
Wel worth of dremes ay thise olde wyves, And treweliche eek augurie of thise foules; 380 For fere of which men wenenlese her lyves, As ravenes qualm, or shryking of thise oules.
And yif he woot that it is chaungeable, he moot alwey ben adrad that he ne lese that thing that he ne doubteth nat but that he may lesen it; as who seith, he mot ben alwey agast, lest he lese that he wot wel he 115 may lese it.
I vouche-sauf, as wisly have I Ioye, 90 For you to lese al that I have in Troye, 14.
And if to lese his Ioye he set a myte, Than semeth it that Ioye is worth ful lyte.
Ector,' quod they, 'what goost may yow enspyre, This womman thus to shilde and doon us lese Daun Antenor?
In the whiche thinges, yif ther be no beautee to ben desyred, why sholdest thou ben sory yif thou lese hem, or why sholdest thou reioysen thee to holden hem?
Wit, how dost thou wound Thy trusty and true servant, Confidence, To lese my credence to Lady Science?
And, as for her, as soon as Wit sees her, For all the world he would not then lese her.
Successours to Peter ben these In that that Peter Christ forsook, 590 That had lever the love of god [to] lese Than a shep[h]erde had to lese his hook.
That maketh hem lese charite, They mowe nat to god attend; 690 In erthe they have so high degree, God, for his mercy, it amend!
That pleseth oon, another smerteth sore; But of his own to large is he that list 455 Give moche, and lese al his good fame therfore.
Ye also, lady, knowe these thinges for trewe; I avaunte not in praysing of my-selfe; therby shulde I lese the precious secre of my conscience.
The oon is ful of drede to lese that is not his owne; that other is sobre, and maketh men discharged of mokel hevinesse in burthen.
I will therefore dismiss the charge, if only to avoid the public scandal of a Member being accused of lese majeste.
The newspapers brought daily reports of denunciations for "lese majeste," and when Schrotter read them he clasped his hands in horrified dismay and exclaimed, "Are we in Germany?
And though thei ben noght alle like, Yit natheles, hou so it falle, O lawe mot governe hem alle, Or that thei lese or that thei winne, After thastat that thei ben inne.
It were a schort beyete To winne chaf and lese whete.
And if so be that he misconteth, To make in his answere a faile, Ther schal non other thing availe, The king seith, bot he schal be ded And lese hise goodes and his hed.
He hath the sor which noman heleth, The which is cleped lack of herte; Thogh every grace aboute him sterte, He wol noght ones stere his fot; So that be resoun lese he mot, That wol noght auntre forto winne.
Let all men get what they can, not to lese I hope: Wheresoever I go in, each corner I will grope.
Wot, the young 'ooman as has been remanded so often at the p'lese court?
Their press, which consistently referred to him baldly as "Wilhelm II" sailed as closely into the wind of lese majeste as possible, and sometimes too closely.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lese" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
