Fight on, my men, Sir Andrewe sais, Weale howsoever this geere will sway; Itt is my Lord Admirall of England, Is come to seeke mee on the sea.
If you, quoth hee, have chosen mee Of a hundred bowemen to be the head On your main-mast He hanged bee, If I miss twelvescore one penny bread.
And for the fault which I have done, Though I was forc'd thereto, Preserve my life, and punish mee As you thinke meet to doe.
Take thy horse again with a vengeance, he sayd, With mee he shall not byde.
I will spend my days in prayer, Love and all her laws defye; In a nunnery will I shroud mee Far from any companye: But ere my prayers have an end, be sure of this, To pray for thee and for thy love I will not miss.
Tis not the gold that shall mee tempt, These words then answered shee, But your own bodye I must have, The king hath granted mee.
If you, my lord, have chosen mee Of a hundred gunners to be the head, Then hang me up on your maine-mast tree, If I misse my marke one shilling bread.
Take pitty on my youthfull yeares," Faire Rosamonde did crye; "And lett mee not with poison stronge Enforced bee to dye.
Some do call mee Jacke, sweet heart, And some do call mee Jille; But when I come to the kings faire courte They call me Wilfulle Wille.
He hath not robbed mee, my liege, Of purple nor of pall: But he hath gotten my maiden head, Which grieves mee worst of all.
Methought they did mee beate and binde, And tooke my bow mee froe; If I be Robin alive in this lande, He be wroken on them towe.
And in spite of her tight skirt, Mee Lay glided out of the room with an air of surpassing grace.
Among the worshippers Shafto recognised Mee Lay and her cousin Ma Chit, attired in what, no doubt, were their festival toilets.
Rosetta, as you already know, is a Roman Catholic; sometimes Mee Lay brings her here; the service and the spectacle are attractive enough, though never so to me.
She took an enthusiastic interest in Rosetta's brick-building, superintended and sharply criticisedMee Lay's games of dominoes, and even suggested herself as a substitute.
Alcmæon killed his mother Eriphyle, for having betrayed his father Amphiaraus.
The statues of the Gods were borne on wooden platforms on the shoulders of men, or on wheels, according as they were light or heavy.
On the rings in use among the ancients, see the note to the First Book of the Aruores, El.
Even the Gods, forsooth, for ever permit the fair to be forsworn, and beauty has its divine sway.
See the Note to the 81st line of the Epistle of De'ianira to Hercules.
If, indeed, Wulf had ardently pushed his suit he might possibly have prevailed on her to marry him in spite of her mother, though whether Wulf without the possessions would have satisfied her eventually may be doubted.
And their grinning teeth, set in the awful fixed smile of the fleshless, seemed to welcome them as future recruits to their company.
They went in silence, paying no heed now to the things they passed on the way, though the apparently endless succession of dead ships and the parts of them was not without its effect on their already broken spirits.
Ye'll have to look smart or ye'll be in the dark," Macro called after him, as he leaned over the side watching his clumsy progression.
They would stay in the Tarras Wood till I was weary of lying in the Waste; and when I had had my time, and they no whit the worse, they would play their parts, which should keepmee waking the next winter.
It pleased mee well at the reading of his kinde letter; but when I heard what a brave hee had put upon mee, I quickly resolved what to do, which was, never to have to do with him, till I was righted for the greate wrong hee had done mee.
But there were divers young gentlemen, that offered to go with mee, some with three, some with four horses, and to stay with mee as long as I would there continue.
I tooke him abroad with mee at the least thrice a weeke, a hunting, and every day wee grew better friends.
At our parting, he professed greate love unto mee for the kinde usage I had shewn him, and that I would find the effects of it upon his delivery, which hee hoped would be shortly.
Then he stripped Asbiorn of his clothes, forasmuch as so great was their difference in strength that the giant could do as he wished.
Accordingly the tale developed in Scandinavian lands in two ways.
It is not till William of Malmesbury that the sheaf comes into the story.
Also they placed a golden banner high over his head, and let the sea bear him away, with soul sorrowful and downcast.
Bothvar stabled his horse by the king's best horses, without asking leave; and then he went into the hall, and there were few men there.
What more likely than that their stories should have influenced each other, and that one king should have come to be regarded as the parent or ancestor of the other?
In the case of Beowulf himself, however, this rule breaks down.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
