Lady Meed and her company are haled before the King, who, with Reason and Conscience as his guides, decides her case, and upholds the plea of Peace against Wrong.
She points out Falseness, who is about to marry Lady Meed (i.
The young woman did not withhold her meed of praise, especially after she had seen his blistered hands, which were also well daubed with pitch from the pines.
Giver forth of Odin's mead Of thy black mare have I need; For to Gilsbank will I ride, Meed of my rash words to bide.
These feverish dews that on my temples hang, This quivering lip, these eyes of dying flame; These the dread signs of many a secret pang, These are the meed of him who pants for fame!
He must not sink; The good, the brave--he must not, shall not sink Without the meed of some melodious tear.
And canst thou rob a poet of his song; Snatch from the bard his trivial meed of praise?
What meed of thanks was given to them let agèd annals tell.
Had he been so wounded, he could have purred contentedly while accepting the genuine hero's meed of homage and consolation.
It was also sacred to Apollo, the god of poetry, hence "meed of poets sage.
Great thankes and goodly meedto that good syre He thence departing gave for his paines hyre.
That will be well, for they'll give no meed to King Gunther's men.
As meed I offered him gold and trappings, that he ferry me across to thy land, Sir Knight.
She bade her chamberlain go fetch the meed for tidings.
Then spake the winsome maid: "I should not rue it, should I give you as an envoy's meed my gold.
A piteous meed it was, which he meted out to the master.
Now take ye kindly my meed to-day and ferry me over.
He whom she served faithfully and conscientiously ought to be the first to award the meed of praise, but in its place there is only the bitter brand of a life-long disgrace.
The people whom she had come among, only to be slighted, and more than that, persecuted with malignant energy, united at her death in awarding the meed of praise they had denied her in life.
Thou canst not thereof have help or meed But if this gear of thine own heart proceed.
Zeno that is not of interest, and this begins with the west front, with the portals, and with the doors, each one claiming in turn its meed of praise and admiration.
Morelli though states that Torbido has not received his lawful meed of praise from Vasari and later writers, and speaks of him as "a personality that deserves to be more closely studied.
Never fear, gentlemen, we'll have our meedof fun very soon.
Many aver that she marred her undoubted gifts of wit through this insatiable desire for one sole topic of conversation--her own beauty and its due meed of praise.
Nor shall that meed be thine, nor ever more Shall loved Ulysses hail this happy shore.
Or drive him hither, to receive themeed From thy own hand, of this detested deed?
All earth I brought beneath my sway, And gave it for his meed and pay To holy Kaśyap, when of yore The rites performed by him were o’er.
Such care a meed in heaven will bring Better than rites and offering.
E’en Śakra’s self must reap the meed Of virtue and of sinful deed.
Through thee, O victor of thy foes, On earth this heavenly Gangá flows, And thou hast gained the meed divine That waits on virtue such as thine.
Thus from their flight the Vánars turned, And every heart for battle burned, Determined on the spot to die Or gain a warrior’s meed on high.
Here birds and lords of serpent race, Spirits and Gods who haunt the place, Content with scanty fare remain, As merit’s meed they strive to gain.
I hither came of free accord To lend the aid by you implored, And richest meed my toil shall pay, While here in forest shades I stay.
This seems the fruit that virtues bear, The meed of worth which texts declare— The sending of the brave and good By sire and mother to the wood.
His fall beneath his passion’s sway Had reft the hermit’s meed away.
The Gods and saints glad voices raised, And Angad for his virtue praised; And Raghu’s sons bestowed the meed Of honour due to valorous deed.
Thou wouldst to duty cleave, and gain The meed that follows toil and pain.
I will not weep: thy noble deed Has blessed thee with immortal meed Gained by each hero in the skies Who fighting for his sovereign dies.
Here never more thy soul shall know The memory of thy former woe, And here shall thou enjoy the meed Deserved by every virtuous deed.
Bernart of Ventadour: Lady, I ask no other meed Than that you suffer me to serve; My faith and love shall never swerve, I'm yours whatever you decreed.
I cast thee out and follow other stars Full evil was mymeed and recompense-- New courage steels my fainting heart, and hence I kneel at shrines which passion never mars.
They come day by day for their meed of crumbs spread for them outside my window, and at this season they eat leisurely and with good appetite, for there are no hungry babies pestering to be fed.
The lonely souls that hold out timid hands to an unheeding world have their meed of interior comfort even here, while the sons of consolation wait on the threshold for their footfall: but God help the soul that bars its own door!
But this memorable battle of one young man against a mighty phalanx of enemies and doubting friends had battered down the prejudices of his own party, and won a meed of applause from even those of stout old Tory principles.
For mere high birth I have smallmeed of praise; The good man in my sight is nobly born; While he who is not righteous, though his sire Than Zeus be loftier, seems to me but base.
The philosophers receive their due meed of celebration.
Who seeks to lead a life of unstirred pleasure Cannot win fame: fame is the meed of travail.
For valour is always fain to seek alliance with the Muses that they may bear witness to her deeds; he loves song whose exploits deserve the meed of song.
But if the merit of saving a single vessel from ruin won, and rightly won, for Tiphys such meed of honour, what praises shall suffice for thee, Stilicho, who hast freed so great an empire from destruction?
Happy warrior, worthy of the Elysian fields and of my meed of song, who wast eager even at the cost of life to cleanse thy loyalty from stain!
Play on, dear girl, and many be the years Ere some grayhaired survivor sit like me And, for thy largess pay a meed of tears Unto another who, beyond the sea Of Time and Change, perhaps not sadly hears A music in this verse undreamed by thee!
If I return 515 To my beloved country, I renounce The illustriousmeed of glory, but obtain Secure and long immunity from death.
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