Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey Yourself of sword before that bloody day.
I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.
And then Saint Brandon purposed soon after for to seek that place by God's help, and anon began to purvey for a good ship and a strong, and victualled it for seven years.
Item, the seid Gonnor seid after that I was gon to the tenaunts of the seid town, that his supersedias was noght, and as for the rescuse, he shuld purvey a mene to excuse it.
Bod for Godds love purvey for my sped her, for ell [else] I lees all my purvyans, and ther too I schyd jaape[97.
I xal purvey that he xal be browth hom er ze kom hom.
I shuld purvey other wood or hey, it shuld be bowgth best chepe be twixt this and Seynt Margretys messe,[266.
For Tudenham and H[eydon] wyll brynge with hem sufficiaunt counceyll as any kun they gete in London; And also the Cetye must purvey that as many sufficiaunt mene as can be gette or spoke to, that they be redy yf it happe of any tryall.
And as for the remenant of the assizes, he shall purvey to be ther by water.
Another bottle I will go purvey Lest that drink be scarce in the way; Or happily none to sell.
Bade ye not me, the last day, To go purvey for your array, And ye remember well.
The bold knight spake: "Sith ye will purvey us knights, who shall have a care for our men-at-arms whom we have brought?
The king earnestly commended to him his followers, that he purvey them well and give them enow to eat; The hero of Burgundy bare them all good will.
Thus did Siegelind, the noble queen, purvey them well.
Their rest they had given over for toil, that they might purvey the guests good cheer.
The good knight spake: "Then will I go myself to my dear mother, if perchance I can bring it to pass that her fair maids purvey us garments which we may wear with honor before the high-born maid.
In rode the guests whom men were fain to see; the noble host badepurvey them proper easement.
Let your sister hear what ye have in mind, and she'll purvey you well for your journey to Brunhild's court.
I'll purvey such guard for whatever ye have brought with you, of steeds and trappings, that naught shall be lost, that might bring you harm, not even a single spur.
Etzel bade the Huns purvey all with fitting honors.
Whatever hate they bore them, yet Gunther, the mighty, bade purvey them well, as was but right, till he discovered of his friends who there was who would lend him aid.
Unless men purvey the hunters better, I'll be no more your hunting-fellow.
She bade purvey her with good armor for the strife: a breastplate of ruddy gold and a right good shield.
At the feasting the host bade purvey them with the best of cheer.
Get thy wounds healed, purvey thee a better horse, and it may be I will hold it worth my while to scourge out of thee this boyish spirit of bravado.
And I shall kepe yowr informatyon in this mater secret, and with Godds grace so purvey for hem as they shall not all be well pleasyd.
And be cauce the corte whas warned in ther name and not in youre, therfore they purvey no money; but they have promysed me to pay no money to no man but to you, so that ye woll safe hem harmeles; and I told hem ye wold safe hem harmeles.
Henry VI seems to have given L 200 "for to purvey them books to the pleasure of God.
So this feast was ended, and the Constable, by the advice of Anglides, let purvey that Alisander was well horsed and harnessed.
And therefore whosomever dined or feasted Sir Gawaine would commonly purvey for good fruit for him, and so did the queen for to please Sir Gawaine; she let purvey for him all manner of fruit, for Sir Gawaine was a passing hot knight of nature.
And therefore take thy fellows with thee, and purveythem of an horse bier, and fetch thou the corpse of her, and bury her by her husband, the noble King Arthur.
He will purvey me to a page's place in some noble household, and get thee a clerk's or scholar's place in my Lord of York's house.
And you are my young master his nephew, who knew where to purvey me of good steel," added Fulford, shaking Giles's hand.
XXXI "Lodged by him in his palace, every day And every hour, the stranger youth he sees, Studious to honour him, and bids purvey Store of provision for his better ease.
Let her by other theft herself purvey With other palfrey, as she did whilere; For never will she have this courser more, Who chased by swift Orlando scours the shore.
I have sette dayes to purveybut [their] money ayenst the first weke of cleene Lenton, and than they schul have an answere who shal receyve it.
Item, I wold ye shold take hyde that yf any processe com owte a yenst me, or a yenst any of tho that wer endyted a fore the coroner, that I myght have knowlych therof, and to purvey a remedy therfor.
Therfor purvey that thei may have sume comfort, that thei be no more discoraged; for if we lese our frends, it shall hard in this troubelous werd [world] to kete them ageyn.
And please youre maistir ship to wete that my maistresse hathe dyverse tymes spokyn to me to helpe to purvey a merchaunt for sum of youre malt; but in good feyth I can gete no man that wyll geve at the most more than xxijd.
Also, as for Syr Wylliam Barber and Syr Wylliam Falyate, I wolde, if they kan purvey for them selfe, folfayne be dyschargyd of them.
Item, but if ye make such purvyauns that my prestis be paiid and pore men, beside other charges, and purvey mony for me beside; owther ye gadir shrewdly or ellis ye spend lewdly.
I wold not he shuld jape hyr, for she menythe good feythe; and yf he wolle not have hyr, late me wete in hast, and I shall purvey for hyr in othyr wysse.
As for Rysyng, but yf [unless] ye purvey for hym he canne no helpe have at home.
Nicholl Tolman yesterday, werin ye desyre that we shuld purvey for your malte and barley; and soo shall we doo as well as we cann, and send you word howe that we may doo therewith in hast.
And assone as ye may with ought daunger, purvey that I may have ageyn the vj.
Go, purvey us a dinner even of the most Of all manner of dishes both sod and roast, That thou canst get: spare for no cost, If thou make three course.
I see well thou wott'st not what I mean, And understandest amiss; I mean this wise, I would have thee To purvey meat so great plenty, That thou shouldst of necessity Serve them at three courses.
Then go, I pray ye, by and by, And purvey some minstrel ready, And he and I will follow shortly, As fast as ever we may.
That I should purvey you three coarse dishes, And these be coarse enou'!
Then the Archbishop of Canterbury by Merlin's providence letpurvey then of the best knights that they might get, and such knights as Uther Pendragon loved best and most trusted in his days.
Soon came Merlin unto the king, and said, Sir, ye mustpurvey you for the nourishing of your child.
Ye have well done, said Sir Gareth; but wit you well ye shall be full sore matched with the most noble knights of the world; therefore we must purvey us of good knights, where we may get them.
Then the king letpurvey for a great feast, and let cry a great jousts.
Thereto, said La Beale Isoud, do your best, and as I can, said La Beale Isoud, I shall purvey horse and armour for you at my device.
Ah, said the king, since ye know of your adventure, purvey for it, and put away by your crafts that misadventure.
But this is my counsel, said the Archbishop, that we let purvey ten knights, men of good fame, and they to keep this sword.
I pray zow, hartely remembyr my gere, and that ze wyl desyere Wylliam Mylsant on my be halve to purvey for the caryage in as hasty wyse as yt can.
Purvey a meane to have Caster ayen or ye goo ovyr; my Lord and Lady (whyche for serteyn is gret with chyld), be wery ther of, and all the housold also.
Wharfor he desireth me to purvey for your suster Anne; he seth she waxeth hygh, and it wer tyme to purvey her a mariage.
Therfore purvey an redy remedy, or ellis ye lese the tenauntis hertis and ye gretly hurt; for it is gret pety to here the swemefull[10-2] and petowse compleyntis of the pore tenauntis that come to me for comfort and socour sometime vi.
Wherfor I prey yow remembyr the cost of the werkmanschep and purvey the money by oo mean or othyr, what shefte so evyr ye make.
Wherefore ye had nede to warne Wylliam Gogyne and hys felaws to purvey them of wyne i now, for every man berythe me on hande[121-3] that the towne schalbe dronkyn drye as Yorke was when the Kynge was there.
And so I entende, aftyr that I here heaftyr, to goo to Caleys to purveyme of harneys, and suche thynges as I schall nede besydes hors, undyr that forme that my costes schalbe payd fore.
So I wolde not ye schulde be to ferre undyr them; wherfor I thynke best that ye purvey yow so as and ye schulde goo forthe yor selfe, for I can perseve non othyr wyse.
Purvey himself contributes to this end by a definite statement of certain changes which may be allowed the English writer.
Purvey says, "Men might expound much openlier and shortlier the Bible than the old doctors have expounded it in Latin.
Such comment, interesting because definite, is nevertheless no more significant than that which had appeared in the Purvey preface to the Bible more than a hundred years earlier.
It is that thou wouldst suffer me to purvey thee a suit of strange armor so that thy friends might not know thee therein, and that thou wouldst go to the tournament disguised in that wise.
Now when the next day was come Sir Ewaine appeared before the lady of the castle and besought her that she would take back the armor she had given him and that in place of that armor she would purvey him the dress of a pilgrim.
So in this case, maugre all that I have said, I will even do as you ask me, wherefore, if you will purvey me that armor of which you speak, I will do your will in all ways that I am able.
Wherefore come down, and if you prove yourself worthy I myself will purvey you a horse.
Now I pray you, Lord, to suffer me to purvey him with armor fit for this undertaking and I believe he will some time bring honor both to you and to me--to you because you granted him this boon, to me because I provided him with armor.
We meet with the name of John Purvey once more in one of the longest and most interesting of the pieces here printed, the Examination of William Thorpe before Archbishop Arundel, held at Saltwood Castle in Kent in 1407.
But come in, come in, dear friends, and Mistress Eaton, who cares for me and my house until I can purvey me another housekeeper, will make you welcome.
So if I do not marry myself, for the weal of the community as Winslow says, I shall purvey for some one of them a wife and mother of children in my stead.
This, Purvey states, he has done most frequently in the Psalter, which "of alle oure bokis discordith most fro Ebru.
She writes in some perturbation to her son-- “He seth she waxeth hygh, and it wer tyme to purvey her a mariage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purvey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cater; coal; deliver; feed; forage; fuel; gas; oil; provide; provision; sell; supply
