I straunched me from sertein personesto moche, &c.
And for the suerte that he shuld synge in the same abbey for ever, they had maners of good valew bounden to such persones as plesed the sayd barthern [brethren] Brokkesby and my brother Darcy, that the sayd servyse shulde be kept.
The said the Kyng hade wreton to dyvers persones here quych hade promysed men, queruppon I promysed a man, quych chall be redy at such tyme I have knowelege quere the shippyng chall be, to waite uppon yow, or quane the Kyng comaundes.
Wherfor like it you to be the more war of your gydyng for your persones saufgard, and also that ye be not to hasty to come in to this cuntre til ye here the world more sewer.
Thus in thre persones Is perfitliche manhede; {344} That is man and his make And mulliere children.
Ane List of the Persones to be warned to passe upon the Assyse for Judging the Witches in Borrowstownes.
For els it should be in all contries and persones indifferently, wher all complexiones be.
For feare wherof, & for the more quietnesse & safetye, very good it is duryng all the sweating time, that two persones lye not in one bed.
All these reasones go to this ende, that persones of all contries of moderate and good diete, escape thys Englishe Ephemera, and those be onely vexed therewith, whiche be of immoderate and euill diete.
There ben also in that contree a kynde of snayles, that ben so grete, that many persones may loggen hem in here schelles, as men wolde done in a litylle hous.
Overmore the seyd William, atte commaundement of the seyd Duc of Norffolk, hath submytted hym to stonde to the ordinaunce of divers persones of alle the seyd matiers: ones at Leyceetre, the Wednesday next biforn Palm Soneday, the iiij.
This article is agreed, excepting suche persones as for nieghnesse of blood, and for their estate, owe of reson to be suffred to speke with the King.
John Amend Alle; and the seyd Roger aftyr the seyd gaderyng aggreyd hym self to be take and examyned be persones of his own covyne, and be color of his seid feleshep of xv.
There is also here a direct reference to the opening sentences of the Persones Tale; see I.
Deedly sinnes, the Seven Deadly Sins; see the Persones Tale.
The quotations, chiefly from the Latin fathers, in this Persones Tale, are so numerous, and often so brief and inexact, that I am not able to give the references in more than a few instances.
To which may be added, that Chaucer here frequently quotes from his Persones Tale, which must have been written previously.
Swearing is alluded to as a prevalent vice amongst Englishmen in Robert of Brunne, in the Persones Tale of Chaucer, and elsewhere.
In the Knightes Tale, Chaucer has humblesse, and in the Persones Tale, humilitee.
Chaucer says again, in his Persones Tale (de Accidia), I.
The addition was made at the time of revision, when Chaucer had made up his mind that the Persones Tale was to be the last; and he took the opportunity of writing the conclusion of the work before it was, in reality, completed.
The seven deadly sinnes, for which see the Persones Tale.
Treatise by Frere Lorens from which the Persones Tale is largely taken.
Deadly Sins'; all of which are described in the Persones Tale; see I.
Augustinus'; and the matter is put beyond doubt by a passage in the Persones Tale, l.
There are several points of resemblance between the present passage and one in the Persones Tale (De Ira), I.
And it is added—sign of omen— Et au cas qu’il advint que Dieu ne veuille que les persones de sa majesté et de messieurs ses frères .
Persones wil do weill then to keip quiet any mony they have as weill as they can: according the tenor of my fathers letter.
He was likewayes a great receipter and protector of all the discontented factiouspersones of that tyme.
Sewerall tymes in France persones have suffered because they had discovered some plot or conspiracy against the King or estat and could not prove it.
Every province almost hath its sundry manner of torturing persones suspected for murder or even great crimes to extort from them a confession of the truth.
The verb is a word of al persones declyned with mood and tyme; as, I wryte, thou wrytes, he wrytes.
We declyne not the persones and numberes of the verb, as doth the latine, but noat them be the person of the noun.
But the working of the poison is most brilliantly described by Chaucer, in his Persones Tale: "After the sinnes of Envie and of Ire, now wol I speken of the sinne of Accidie.
But lyue men good lif, and studie many persones Goddis lawe, and whanne chaungyng of wit is foundun, amende [th]ey it as resoun wole.
The personesthat haue vsed it / were bothe patriarches / as Abraham.
The places out of the whiche it is sought are: The persones byrthe.
Of an oracion demonstratiue / wherein are praised neither persones nor actes / but some other thynges / as religion / matrimony / or suche other.
Honesty is considered in the nature of the thynge / also in the persones that haue excercysed it / and the inuenters thereof.
As to deuide amonge suche as longe to the Chyrche of the Chyrche goodes after the qualitie of theyr merytes: and to them beynge Ciuil persones of the comon treasour of the Ci- tie accordynge as they are worthy.
And so to conclude an oracion Demon- stratiue / wherein persones are lauded / is an historycall exposicion of all his lyfe in order.
Godd’s grace fewe or no persones shalbe seene abrode to begge or aske almesse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "persones" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
