Ac in poverte, ther pacience is, Pride hath no myghte, Ne none of the sevene synnes 9360 Sitten ne mowe ther longe, Ne have power in poverte, If pacience folwe.
And I shal preve," quod Pees, "Hir peyne moot have ende, And from wo into wele Mowewenden at the laste.
And if he chaffareth, he chargeth no losse, Mowe he charite wynne.
Wel han they cause for to gladen ofte, Sith ech of hem recovered hath his make; Ful blisful mowe they ben when they awake.
Sergeauntz for hire servyce, We seeth wel the sothe, Taken mede of hir maistres, As thei mowe acorde.
And though povere men profre yow Presentes and giftes, Nyme it noght, an aventure Ye mowe it noght deserve; For thow shalt yelde it ayein 3880 At one yeres tyme, In a ful perilous place, Purgatorie it hatte.
And thei that lyve thus hir lif, Mowe lothe the tyme That evere thei were men wroght, 4680 Whan thei shal hennes fare.
The night shalt thou contene so, Withoute rest, in peyne and wo; If ever thou knewe of love distresse, Thou shalt mowe lerne in that siknesse.
In herte it makith hem glad and light, 2835 Speche, whan they mowe have sight.
Ladyes shulle hem such pepir brewe, If that they falle into hir laas, That they for we mowe seyn "Allas!
Certes, I nil never ete breed, I make a-vowe to my god here, But I mowe of my lorde here!
For fals lovers mowe al folye Seyn, what hem lust, withouten drede, They be so double in hir falshede; 2540 For they in herte cunne thenke a thing And seyn another, in hir speking.
The hoke to take away wedes, En Aoust le foyer ou faucher, In August reap it or mowe it, D'une faucille ou d'une faux.
Book 2 Chapter 16 About three miles before it reaches the town, the river Mowe undulates through a plain.
Al-thogh thou mowe hit not y-see Above, hit goth yet alway under, 805 Although thou thenke hit a gret wonder.
As I schalle devyse zou, suche as thei ben, and the names how thei clepen hem; to suche entent, that zee mowe knowe the difference of hem and of othere.
But how it semethe to symplemen unlerned, that men ne mowe not go undre the erthe, and also that men scholde falle toward the hevene, from undre!
In that See of Libye, is no fissche: for thei mowe not lyve ne dure, for the gret hete of the sonne; because that the watre is evermore boyllynge, for the gret hete.
But that may not be, upon lesse, than wee mowe falle toward hevene, fro the erthe, where wee ben.
But now is tyme that thou drinke and ataste some softe and delitable thinges; so that, whan they ben entred with-in thee, it mowe maken wey to strengere drinkes of medicynes.
For by grace of positioun, so that thou mowe 30 the betere understonde this that folweth, I pose, per impossibile, that ther be no prescience.
But wikkede folk,' quod she, 'yif they geten the good that 55 they desiren, they ne mowe nat be wikkede?
Now is it no doute thanne that thise weyes ne ben a maner misledinges to blisfulnesse, ne that they ne mowe nat leden folk thider as they biheten to leden hem.
But I preye that they coveiten richesse and honours, so that, whan they han geten tho false 20 goodes with greet travaile, that ther-by they moweknowen the verray goodes.
And other folk dreden more than they oughten [that] whiche they mighten wel beren; and somme dispyse that they mowe nat beren; and thilke folk god ledeth in-to experience of himself by aspre and sorwful thinges.
For Supplant with his slyhe cast Fulofte happneth forto mowe Thing which an other man hath sowe, And makth comun of proprete With sleihte and with soubtilite, As men mai se fro yer to yere.
For you must vnderstand that where you sow Beanes, there it is euer more profit to mowe them with Sythes, then to reape them with Hookes, and much sooner, and with lesse charge performed.
I suppose if ye lyke to bye itt when ye com hom, ye shall mowe have itt of Toppis als godechepe or better than another shuld.
Betwene the mountaynes, the Jewes of 10 lynages ben enclosed, that men clepen Gothe and Magothe: and thei mowe not gon out on no syde.
For thei mowe not gon out, but be a littille issue, that was made be strengthe of men; and it lastethe wel a 4 gret myle.
And also thei conen no langage, but only hire owne, that no man knowethe but thei: and therfore mowe thei not gon out.
Whan the hevinesse of suche fayling cometh by case of fortune, they mowe it not eschue; and might and power, if ther were any, shulde of strength such thinges voyde and weyve; and 100 so it is not.
In al whiche thinges a longe tyme mannes coveytise in commune hath ben greetly grounded, to come 70 to the blisse of my service; but trewly, they were begyled, and for the principal muste nedes fayle, and in helping mowe nat availe.
Ye,' quod I; 'but yet wolde I here how ye wolde prove that she were good by resonable skil, that it mowe not ben denyed.
I, 'and by juste cause the name of goddesse dignely ye mowe bere!
Also I praye, that every man parfitly mowe knowe thorow what intencion of herte this tretys have I drawe.
Bothe these proporcions be sothe,' quod I, 'and wel mowe stande togider; wherfore this case as possible I admit.
As thilke that ben there never mowe not ben present, so thinges of tyme passed ne mowe in no wyse not ben passed; but al thinges in your temporal presence, that passen in a litel while, shullen ben not present.
Parde, every conseyt of every resonable creature otherwyse wil [wol] not graunte; wil in affirmatif with not willing by no way mowe acorde.
What bountee mowe they yeve that, with cloude, lightly leveth his shyninge?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mowe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
