To whom the mayd answered: why, maystres, why may I not haue a chyld without a man as well as hennys lay eggys withhout a cocke?
But theMayd and the rest of the household having charge not to open the doore, but to suche as were well knowne, the Messenger could not gett in.
There came a Mayd to the doore that would not open it, but peeped through a grating and asked his businesse.
My wife also was not well, so that a mayd was fain to sit up by her all night.
Thence to my brother's and found them with my mayd Elizabeth taking an inventory of the goods of the house, which I was well pleased at, and am much beholden to Mr. Honeywood's man in doing of it.
That being done I by water home, it being night first, and there I find our new mayd Jane come, a cook mayd.
Here meeting his mayd Jane, that has lived with them so long, I talked with her, and sending her of an errand to Dr.
Crystys moder was hym betake, Won mayd to be anodyris make, To help that we be nott forsake, Amici Christi, Johannes.
To the now, Crystys der derlyng, That was a maydbothe old and 3yng, Myn hert is sett for to syng Amici Christi, Johannes.
Qwhen Cryst beforne Pilate was browte, Hys clene mayd forsoke hym nowte, To deye with hym was all hys thowte, Amici Christi, Johannes.
Mayd to be soe sadde The Momente that her Care was drownd!
As our noble kynge mayd his avowe, lyke a noble prince of renowen, For the deth of the lord Persë he dyde the battell of Hombyll-down; 64.
The Persë owt off Northombarlonde, and avowe to God mayd he That he wold hunte in the mowntayns off Chyviat within days thre, In the magger of doughtë Dogles, and all that ever with him be.
A pype of wyne he gaue them over the walles, For soth as I yow saye; Ther he mayd the Dowglasse drynke, And all hys ost that daye.
So they two fight; the whiles the royall Mayd Fledd farre away, of that proud Paynim sore afrayd.
At last the royall Mayd 8 Out of her quiet slomber did awake, And chaungd her weary side, the better ease to take.
So they +two+ fight; the whiles the royall Mayd Fled farre away, of that proud Paynim sore afrayd.
He turning taile, 6 Backe to the strond retyrd, and there still stayd, Awaiting passage, which him late did faile; 8 The whiles Cymochles with that wanton mayd The hastie heat of his auowd reuenge delayd.
A maydthat lived with my lord lived with his father[BU].
For a piece of beef and turnip, Neglected, with a cabbage, He took up the pillion Of his bouncing mayd Jillian; And sowc't her like a baggage.
A pype of wyne he gave them over the walles, 65 For soth, as I yow saye: Ther he mayd the Douglas drynke, And all hys oste that daye.
And at the ende of the aultre we knelyd downe deuoutly, & the fyrste of all we salutyd Christe, & than after we callyd apon our lady with thys prayer, whiche we had mayd redy for the same purpose.
The mayd of Cõstantynople, which dyd gyue it, dyd saye so.
The maydcryeth & saythe, O swet Mary send me a fayre and riche husbond.
And therfore whan I was within the chapell I mayd my prayers to our lady after thys fashiõ.
For he had a berd like a goote, and his cote had neuer a plyte, & it was so litle, that with strayte gyrdynge it mayd hys body to apere lesse than it was.
The facetious and eccentric Edmund Gayton, in the dedication to his Festivous notes on Don Quixote, speaks of Mayd Myriam.
I sawe a Mayd sitte on a Bank, Beguiled by Wooer fayne and fond; And whiles His flatterynge Vowes She drank, Her Nurselynge slipt within a Pond!
Did not I sit in Oxford by the frier, 5 And see thee court the mayd of Fresingfield, Sealing thy flattering fancies with a kisse?
Ho[d]ge, let thy breeches go, and speake and tell mee soone What devill ayleth Gammer Gurton & Tib her maydto frowne.
A pype of wyne he gave them over the walles, 65 For soth, as I yow saye; Ther he mayd the Douglas drynke, And all hys oste that daye.
Then one the morne they mayd them beeres Of byrch, and haysell graye; Many a wydowe with wepyng teyres 155 Ther makes they fette awaye.
As our noble kynge mayd his avowe, lyke a noble prince of renown, For the deth of the lord Percy he dyd the battle of Hombyll-down: 64.
The Percy out of Northumberlande, and a vowe to God mayd he That he would hunte in the mountayns of Cheviot within days thre, In the magger[42] of doughty Douglas, and all that ever with him be.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mayd" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
