THE FOLK-MOTE BY THE RIVER It was up in the morn we rose betimes From the hall-floor hard by the row of limes.
And why seest thou the mote in thy brother's eye: but the beam that is in thy own eye thou considerest not?
Hypocrite, cast first the beam out of thy own eye: and then shalt thou see clearly to take out the mote from thy brother's eye.
And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye?
Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye?
Or how canst thou say to thy brother: Brother, let me pull the mote out of thy eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own eye?
Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Now it came to pass that one day a folk-mote was held, for it had befallen that a thief had been taken in the town, and it was at this mote that he was to be brought to trial, & the King himself was present.
These expensive tastes, contracted upon the stage, soon drained the Andorran Exchequer, and the Folk Mote was at its wits' end to devise a Budget.
In his great speech to the Folk Mote upon this important measure, he pointed out that the brutal doctrine of an appeal to force in the last resort ill befitted the nineteenth century.
As the four Powers refused to take any notice of Don Pedro's manifesto, the Chancellor declared to the Folk Motehis determination of treating them as recalcitrant rebels, and reducing them by force of arms.
The Folk Mote has full legislative and deliberative powers.
And why beholdest thou themote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
How canst thou say to thy brother: Brother, let me cast out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother: Let me cast out the mote from thine eye; and behold, the beam is in thine own eye?
The mote that had floated in their depths was gone for all time.
Wherefor he felt beneath his belt; Perchance he there mote wear A signet, or some love-token, Or lock of lady’s hair.
Now Jack once more on Cornwall’s shore Unslung his huge trophee: And all flock’d round, and mark’d with stound What this strange thing mote be.
Twas thus the negroes throng’d the beach, To view a ship at sea: While some drew down their light canoes; What mote the strange bark be?
And here followeth the noble tale of the Sangreal, that called is the Holy Vessel; and the signification of the blessed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, blessed mote it be, the which was brought into this land by Joseph Aramathie.
I wot full well, said Sir Ector, what it is; it is an holy vessel that is borne by a maiden, and therein is part of the holy blood of our Lord Jesu Christ, blessed mote he be.
Here was a noble old-fashioned house, with a mote about it and drawbridge, and strong high walles embatteled.
After the garrison was gonn the mote was filled up, about 1650, and the high wall pulled down and one of the towers.
As the child danced, a human mote in that vast area of sun-splashed woodland, the light flooded in upon her scanty and ragged dress of brown homespun, from which her arms and legs emerged as the white chestnut-buds from their sheaths of amber.
Alle fresh the level pasture lay, And not a shadowe mote be seene, Save where full fyve good miles away The steeple towered from out the greene; And lo!
And at evening he went and proposed to Mote to run away with the money.
Mote was no better off; the potter overworked him, making him carry water and dig earth from morn to night and for all he did he got nothing but abuse.
They went to a distant village and Chote took service with an oilman and Mote with a potter on a yearly agreement.
One day the brothers, met and Mote asked Chote how he was getting on.
But directly the bullock got outside the village it rushed off bellowing towards some other cattle and Mote had to run after it with his bedstead on his head, and all the afternoon the bullock kept him running about till he was worn out.
In the morning while Mote was driving the oil mill he was very pleased with his new job and when he had to take the bullock out to graze he took a bedstead with him to lie on.
XXII ‘It was na wer-wolf into the wood, Nor was it mermaid into the sea, But and it was my vile stepmother, And wae and weary mote she be!
XVI Up she rose, and forth shee goes, Evel mote shee speede therfore!
X By there came a silly auld carle, An ill death mote he die!
XIX Thereby Boyd kend he was master man, And servèd him in his ain degree: ‘God mote thee save, brave Outlaw Murray!
So we will take the beam out of our own eye, before we try to take the mote from the Negro's.
Cast out first the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye" (Matt.
Yet, though he could not see the mote in his own eye, there was one in Fanny's which, though he saw, he was unable to define.
It is true on the mote question he was not an expert.
There is an old story of a mote and a beam, apparently not true, but worthy perhaps of some consideration.
For Self-blame Lord, enlighten us to see the beam that is in our own eye, and blind us to the mote that is in our brother's.
Thy wyf and thou mote hange fer a-twinne, For that bitwixe yow shal be no sinne 3590 No more in looking than ther shal in dede; This ordinance is seyd, go, god thee spede!
Here in this prisoun mote we endure, 1185 And everich of us take his aventure.
For sithen he seyde that we ben Iangleresses, As ever hool I mote brouke my tresses, I shal nat spare, for no curteisye, To speke him harm that wolde us vileinye.
Eek Plato seith, who-so that can him rede, The wordes mote be cosin to the dede.
Ye mote nempne him to what place also (310) Or to what contree that yow list to ryde.
Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me cast out themote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Although not in Ulster, I may also refer to a fine example of a rath with a souterrain in it, the Mote of Greenmount, described by the Rev.
He takes the end of the beam sticking out of his eye to pick the mote from the eye of his brother withal!
He must first pluck out the beam out of his own eye, then the mote out of his brother's--if indeed the mote in his brother's be more than the projection of the beam in his own.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mote" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
