I marvel much that my lord of Norfolk would at all times so lightly grant everything at their requests here.
Item, onepotte callid a crismatorie to put in holy creme and oyle, of silver and gilt, weying jli.
Ther is on potte that is morkyn ondre the bottome ij.
I have best truste on too, and nexte hym to the wryghe potte; and I mystruste moost the pottethat hathe a krotte abovyn in the toppe, lesse that he hathe ben ondoone.
The potte may goo so longe to water that atte the last it is broken" we found in a manuscript of about the year 1545, entitled, "The book of the Knight of La Tour.
I knowe your minde as well as though I were within you: goe to, you seeke to quarrell, but beware of lead I wist; so long goes the potte to the water at length it comes home broken.
Also I pray yow hertyly that ye woll send me a potte with treacle in hast; for I have ben rygth evyll att ese, and your dowghter bothe, syth that ye yeden hens, and on of the tallest younge men of this parysch lyth syke and hath a grete myrr'.
Dryncke ys my lyfe; although my wyfe Some tyme do chyde and scolde, Yete spare I not to plye the potte Of joly goode ale and olde.
An earthen potte wyll keepe longe the sauoure of the liquore that it is fyrste seasoned wyth, and it wyll be long or it go out.
Then make a rounde hole of the bygnesse of an Apple in the clothe that your potte is stopped withal for the steam to issue out at.
And whan the husbande loked up, and sawe the potte stande there on hyght, he sayd thus: Lo!
This good woman, lothe yet to offende hym, sette the potte besyde the fyre, as he badde.
Whan the vsurer shulde go to dyner, the potte and meate was gone, wherfore he alto chydde his mayde.
And anone after he commaunded her to sette the potte behynde the dore, and she said agayne: ye be nat wyse therin.
So, as she toke the potte in her hande, and was goyng downe into her seller to drawe drynke, sodaynely came one of her neyghbours for a cole o' fyre.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potte" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
