Chaucer translates: 'Thou hast lerned by the sentence of Plato, that nedes the wordes moten be cosines to the thinges of which they speken'; see vol.
But nedes day departe moste hem sone, And whanne hir speche doon was and hir chere, 1710 They twinne anoon as they were wont to done, And setten tyme of meting eft y-fere; And many a night they wroughte in this manere.
But at the laste, as every thing hath ende, 615 She took hir leve, and nedes wolde wende.
Thus held him ech of other wel apayed, That al the world ne mighte it bet amende; And, on the morwe, whan they were arayed, Ech to his owene nedes gan entende.
But sith I see my lord motnedes dye, And I with him, here I me shryve, and seye 440 That wikkedly ye doon us bothe deye.
And of this thing ful sone his nedes leyde 135 On hem that sholden for the tretis go, And hem for Antenor ful ofte preyde To bringen hoom king Toas and Criseyde; And whan Pryam his save-garde sente, Thembassadours to Troye streyght they wente.
For wel I fele, by my maladye, And by my dremes now and yore ago, Al certeinly, that I mot nedes dye.
From thy company I cannot abyde I must nedes holde upon thy syde yllwyll and shrewdwit who caa hyde For they will be together.
I must nedes laugh I cannot forbeare To remember warre that knaue wil ye heare The horson fleming was beshitten for feare Because he should boyde so soone.
Wyl and lybertyeis, of aunciterie olde with out lyberfye, wili dare not bebolde 320 And where wyl lacketh, lybertye is full colde Thyrfore wyl and lybertye must nedes be of kyn.
Some loueth for to whippe, to see how ierkes will smart, In wofull taking is that horse that nedesmust drawe in cart.
And therfore, he that first was so mighty that he sholde not have dyed, bicam swich oon that he moste nedes dye, whether he wolde or noon; and all his progenie in this world that in thilke man sinneden.
This marchant, whan that ended was the faire, 1515 To Seint Denys he gan for to repaire, And with his wyf he maketh feste and chere, And telleth hir that chaffare is so dere, That nedes moste he make a chevisaunce.
Than moste she nedes holden hir biheste, Or elles he shal shame hir atte leste.
Now shul ye understonde what is Confession, and whether it oghte nedes be doon or noon, and whiche thinges been covenable to verray Confession.
Or if my destinee be shapen so, That I shal nedeshave oon of hem two, As sende me him that most desireth me.
But what that god forwoot mot nedes be, After the opinioun of certeyn clerkis.
Telle us som mery tale, by your fey; For what man that is entred in a pley, 10 He nedes moot unto the pley assente.
Myn heritage moot I nedes selle, And been a begger; heer may I nat dwelle, And shamen al my kinrede in this place, 1565 But I of him may gete bettre grace.
And nedes cost this thing mot have an ende; Or he or I mot nedes lese our lyf.
Afterwards follows a table of the matters handled in the interlude; among which are: "Of certeyn conclusions prouvynge the yerthe must nedes be rounde, and that yt is in circumference above xxi.
And therfore also euery two corners must nedes be lesse then two right corners.
And if it bee so in a blunte angeled triangle, it must nedes be true in all other, for there is no other kinde of triangles that hathe the one side so greate aboue the other sids, as thei y^t haue blunt corners.
In all likeiammes where there are more than one made aboute one bias line, the fill squares of euery of them must nedes be equall.
Wherfore it must nedes folowe, that the angle made in a cantle lesse then a semicircle, must nedes be greater then a right angle.
D, as his other line, then must it nedes be, that the lyne A.
B, be equal to an other, as vnto C, then muste nedes A.
Or what other thinge shuld chyldrẽ do rather whẽ they be more able to speake, seyng nedes thei muste do sumwhat?
Yet nedes must be some excellẽt wryter, which put forth such a booke that euen learned menne thought it to be of Hesiodus doing.
The lond is so out of tylthe that a nedes [uneath, i.
Chamber, but wil you nedes attempt the rest of your youthly daies amid the Mantuanes, whose suspicious heads are ful of hammers working in the same?
For yif so be that ther is a thing, that in any partye be febler of power, certes, 20 as in that, it mot nedes ben nedy of foreine help.
But so as only bountee and prowesse may enhaunsen every man over other men; thanne mot itnedes be that shrewes, which that shrewednesse hath cast out of the condicioun of mankinde, ben put under the merite and the desert of men.
And yif preysinge maketh gentilesse, 30 thanne moten they nedes be gentil that ben preysed.
And whan they ben apassed, nedes they maken hem pore that for-gon the richesses.
For thilke folk that ben preysed falsly, they moten nedes han shame of hir preysinges.
Amonge them all there was one that sayde, that he muste nedes take a glyster, if he wolde be holle.
A phisitian called Eumonus tolde a sicke man, that laye in great payne, that he coulde nat scape, but he muste nedes dye of that disese.
The couetous marchant, whan he vnderstode this, and that he muste nedes pay xx li.
At laste, the saltenes of the meate made her to thyrste so sore, that she muste nedes drynke.
Therfore I muste nedes say nowe: the shepe of God haue mercy vpon me.
Whanne he sawe there was no remedy but that he shulde dye, he sayde: my lorde, I muste nedes suffre dethe, whiche I knowe I haue wel deserued.
For hit is a fowll thynge for a man to renne to the deth for the enemye of his lyf/ And a wyse man and a stronge man ought not to flee for his lyf/ but to yssue For ther is no man that lyueth/ but he must nedes dye.
I must ellesnedes sell all my woods, and that shall dysse avayll him better than a CC.
I reke not thowe he fellyd not tyll thys wynter; but iff he woll nedes begyn thys Maye, therffor I wryght yow thus hastely entrete hym, iff ye can, that he felle not tyll wynter.
Betir me were have leten be; But it bihoved nedes me To don right as myn herte bad.
Of whom must nedes cum all our Diuines, Lawyers, and Physicions.
Whan I remember the worthy tyme of Rome, wherein Plautus did liue, I must nedes honor the talke of that tyme, which we see Plautus doth vse.
More was wont to do, wouldnedes be counted lyke vnto him.
And good cause why: For being vnlike in troth of Religion, they must nedes be vnlike in honestie of liuing.
Certis as in þat it most[e] nedesbe nedy of foreine helpe.
For whiche it mot nedesbe þat souereyne blisfulnesse is souerey[ne] dyuynite.
And Musike he must nedes know: that he may haue vnderstanding, both of Regular and Mathematicall Musike: that he may temper well his Balistes, Catapultes, and Scorpions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nedes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
