Or ellis I falle, Thorugh inparfite preestes And prelates of holy chirche.
So that povre pacient Is parfitest lif of alle, And alle parfit preestes To poverte sholde drawe.
Christ, for us that shedde his blood, Bad his preestes no maystership have, Ne carke nat for cloth ne fode; From every mischef he will hem save.
Such preestes of Lucifer ben sent, Lyk conquerours they ben arayd, Proude pendaunts at hir ars y-pent, Falsly the truthe they han betrayd.
See also the parallel passage in the Nonne Preestes Tale, B 4546.
For discourses on dreams, compare the Nonne Preestes Tale, and the remarks of Pandarus in Troilus, v.
And than the preestes casten the gobettes of the flesche; and than the foules eche of hem takethe that he may, and gothe a litille thens and etethe it: and so thei don whils ony pece lastethe of the dede body.
And aftre that, as preestes amonges us syngen for the dede, Subvenite sancti Dei, &c.
This lokynge on lewedpreestes 7210 Hath doon me lepe from poverte, The which I preise ther pacience is Moore perfit than richesse.
Preestes and persons That plesynge desireth, 1870 That taken mede and moneie For masses that thei syngeth, Taken hire mede here, As Mathew us techeth.
Preestes that prechen the peple To goode, asken mede, And massepens and hire mete At the meel-tymes.
Parsons and parisshe preestes Pleyned hem to the bisshope, That hire parisshes weren povere Sith the pestilence tyme, To have a licence and leve At London to dwelle, 170 And syngen ther for symonie; For silver is swete.
She blesseth thise bisshopes, Theigh thei be lewed; Provendreth persones, And preestes maynteneth, To have lemmans and lotebies Alle hire lif daies, 1660 And bryngeth forth barnes Ayein forbode lawes.
Archa Dei in the olde lawe Levytes it kepten; 7670 Hadde nevere lewed man leve To leggen hond on that cheste, But he were preest or preestes sone, Patriark or prophete.
Spera-in-Deo speketh of preestes That have no spendyng silver, That if thei travaille truweliche And truste in God almyghty, Hem sholde lakke no liflode, Neyther lynnen ne wollen.
Preestes and persons With Placebo to hunte, {62} And dyngen upon David Eche day til eve.
By swiche undigne preestes and curates han lewed men the lasse reverence of the sacraments of holy chirche; and swiche yeveres of chirches putten out the children of Crist, and putten in-to the chirche the develes owene sone.
I have wel rad in daun Burnel the Asse, Among his vers, how that ther was a cok, For that a preestes sone yaf him a knok Upon his leg, whyl he was yong and nyce, 4505 He made him for to lese his benefyce.
Commune penaunce is that preestes enioinen men comunly in certeyn caas; as for to goon, peraventure, naked in pilgrimages, or bare-foot.
Preestes been aungeles, as by the dignitee of hir misterye; but for sothe, seint Paul seith, that 'Sathanas transformeth him in an aungel of light.
Swiche preestes been the sones of Helie, as sheweth in the book of Kinges, that they weren the sones of Belial, that is, the devel.
The Nonne Preestes Tale illustrates, not only Chaucer's comic use of simile, but, what is closely allied to this, the comic effect produced by speaking of one thing in terms of another.
The Nonne Preestes Tale is based on Marie de France's fable of the Cock and the Fox, though it is possible that Chaucer's more immediate source was an enlargement of this, called the Roman de Renart.
Three typical instances may be taken as illustrating his method: the Man of Lawes Tale, the Nonne Preestes Tale, and the story of Count Hugo of Pisa in the Monkes Tale.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preestes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
