I am weary Of this lewde trade; give mee fyve hundred crownes And take her; I'l gie't over now in tyme Ere it bringe mee to the gallowes.
A most strange and rare example of the iust iudgement of God executed upon a lewde and wicked Coniurer the xvij day of Januarie 1577.
Now god,' quod I, 'that dyed on the crois Yeve sorow on thee, and on thy lewde vois!
O lewde book, with thy foole rudenesse, Sith thou hast neither beautee n'eloquence, Who hath thee caused, or yeve thee hardinesse For to appere in my ladyes presence?
But as I lay this other night wakinge, I thoghte how lovers had a tokeninge, And among hem it was a comune tale, That it were good to here the nightingale Rather than the lewde cukkow singe.
But what auayleth them this lewde obscure errour Of suche hye byrthe them self to magnyfy.
I the more lament, that soch wittes commonlie be either kepte from learning, by fond fathers, or bet from learning by lewde scholemasters.
Whereof cummeth partelie, that lewde and spitefull prouerbe, sounding to the greate hurte of learning, and shame of learned men, that, the greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
This, lewde and learned, by common experience, know to be most trewe.
I have ned to bothe, for I may not ryd nor goo owt at the doorys with non that I have, they be so lewde [shabby].
Sir, I send yow and lewdeletter be Richerd Yenneys.
Has heard of the trouble that has arisen owing to the blow the knight porter has given to a ‘lewde Felowe.
In the fyrste parte is showne, the vnsufferable abuse, of a lewde Magistrate: The vertuous behauiours of a chaste Ladye: The vncontrowled leawdenes of a fauoured Curtisan.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lewde" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
