Popes and patronesPovre gentil blod refuseth, And taken Symondes sonne Seyntewarie to kepe.
And geveth suche mede an mete, And povre men refusen; In youre deth deynge, Ich drede me sore Lest tho maner men To moche sorwe yow brynge.
Ac the povre pacient Purgatorye passeth Rathere than the ryche, Thauh thei renne at ones.
Wan men carpen of Crist Other of clennesse of soule, He wext wroth, and wol not huyre Bote wordes of murthe, Penaunce and povre men, The passion of seyntes, He hateth to huyre therof And alle that therof carpen.
So that povre pacient Is parfitest lif of alle, And alle parfit preestes To poverte sholde drawe.
We approach the choir from the right aisle, noting a fourteenth-century statue of the Virgin and Child on the left as we reach the entrance, perhaps the very statue before which povre Gilles did his penance (p.
Ful looth were him to cursen for his tythes, But rather wolde he yeven, out of doute, Un-to his povre parisshens aboute Of his offring, and eek of his substaunce.
But with thise relikes, whan that he fond A povre person dwelling up-on lond, Up-on a day he gat him more moneye Than that the person gat in monthes tweye.
That in this world is noon so povre a page, (470) That he nolde have abhominacioun Of that I have receyved in your toun.
Than were ther yonge povre clerkes two, That dwelten in this halle, of which I seye.
But god forbede that we stinten here; And therfore, if ye vouche-sauf to here 4340 A tale of me, that am a povre man, I wol yow telle as wel as ever I can A litel Iape that fil in our citee.
For there he was nat lyk a cloisterer, With a thredbar cope, as is a povre scoler, 260 But he was lyk a maister or a pope.
Thou seist to me, it is a greet meschief To wedde a povre womman, for costage; And if that she be riche, of heigh parage, 250 Than seistow that it is a tormentrye To suffre hir pryde and hir malencolye.
This folk taken litel reward of the rydinge of goddes sone of hevene, and of his harneys whan he rood up-on the asse, and ne hadde noon other harneys but the povreclothes of hise disciples; ne we ne rede nat that evere he rood on other beest.
Taketh hede also, how men of povre degree Through vertue have be set in greet honour, 90 And ever have lived in greet prosperitee Through cherisshing of vertuous labour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "povre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
