Hir freendes sawe hir sorwe gan to slake, And preyede hir on knees, for goddes sake, To come and romen hir in companye, Awey to dryve hir derke fantasye.
Hir freendes sawe that it was no disport 895 To romen by the see, but disconfort; And shopen for to pleyen somwher elles.
But, for to speken of hir conscience, She was so charitable and so pitous, She wolde wepe, if that she sawe a mous Caught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.
For after the sawe of the word of the apostle: "coveitise is rote of alle harmes.
And towardes the ende he saieth: Wee sawe many of the people weare earinges of copper hangings at their eares.
We sawe Whales also of all sortes aswel small as great: and here our men tooke many Iberded Coddes with one teate vnderneath, which are like to the Northeast Cods, and better then those of Newfoundland.
After they had long talked together, and that their Lord sawe that there was no remedy to auoide his going into France, hee commanded his people the next day, to bring him some victuals to serue him by the way.
Whereupon when I sawe with what affection he spake when he pronounced Thimogoa, I vnderstoode what he would say.
Aulmosne y est bien employe, Almesse is there well bestowed, 8 Car au temps quelle veoit For the tyme that she sawe Elle eust enuys demande; She had not gladly axed; Si que cest pite de elle.
Il vent si bien ses chars He selleth so well his flessh Que luy appiert; That to hym it appereth; Car luy voy si poure For I sawe hym so poure Quil ne scauoit[1] That he knewe not 36 Que bouter en sa bouche.
And als sone as that the Knycht sawe in syk a kynde, sik ane honourable man, he left his contemplacioun, and tuke out a Buke of his bosum and began to rede.
Sche said, Thomas I the hyzt, To lay thi hede upon my kne, And thou shalt see fayrer syght, Than euyr sawe man in their kintre.
Why,' quod Orthone, 'whan ye rose out of your bedde, sawe ye nothynge?
Esteward ich behulde After the sonne, And sawe a tour as ich trowede, etc.
Nowe, out alas," the tanner he cryde, "That ever I sawe this daye!
Astonyed lay the heire of Linne, Ne knewe if he were live or dead: At length he looked, and sawe a bille, And in it a key of gold so redd.
But when I sawe her in that woefull case, 65 With teares of bloud I wet mine aged face: For my Lavinia I lamented more Then for my two-and-twenty sonnes before.
When as I sawe she could not write nor speake, With grief mine aged heart began to breake; 70 We spred an heape of sand upon the ground, Whereby those bloudy tyrants out we found.
Since that I sawe this gardine wasted quite, That where it was scarce seemed anie sight; 530 That I, which once that beautie did beholde, Could not from teares my melting eyes with-holde.
Yet the Grassehopper for all his Sommer pipyng, Sterveth in Winter wyth hungrie gripyng, Therefore an other sayd sawe doth men advise, 5 That they be together both mery and wise.
Which when I hearde and sawe I would none to you bring.
Selfe is sinne obstinate, if selfe amend not: Indeede, I sawe a fault in thee my selfe, And it hath set a foyle upon thy fame, 15 Not as the foile doth grace the diamond.
I neuer sawe in anye place greater abundaunce and frequentation of people, forasmuche as I could perceyue by tarrying there the space of 20 dayes.
They are slayne at the rysyng of the sunne, and shortly after are distributed to the poore for God’s sake: for I sawe there a great and confounded multitude of poor people as to the number of 20 thousande.
Our captayne answered that hesawe nothing; and we also beyng demaunded, answered in lyke maner.
As soone as I entered into the citie, I went to their temple or Meschita, where I sawe a great multitude of poore people, as about the number of 25 thousande, attendyng a certayne pilot who should bryng them into their countrey.
The Elders answered, “Sawe you not the lyghtning whiche shone out of the sepulchre of the Prophet Mahumet[FN#17]?
Beneath the mountaine are seene seuen or eyght thorne trees, very fayre, and in them we found a payre of turtle doues, which seemed to vs in maner a miracle, hauying before made so long journeyes, and sawe neyther beast nor foule.
But whyche a grete congregacioun Of folke / as I sawe come aboute Some wythin and some wythoute Nas never seen ne shal be ofte.
When first I sawe thee (Though but with a meare cursorye aspecte) My soule did prompt me that so fayre a forme Could not but be the myne of manye vertues.
My Lord, I had a vision this last night Wherein me thought I sawe the prince your sonne Sit in my fathers garden with Hyanthe Under the shadow of the Laurell tree.
I never sawe a Jemme so precious, So wonderful in substance and in Art.
And they shot for twentie poundes a bowe, Besides great cheere they did bestowe, I never sawe a gallanter showe, Except I had been at London.
Kyng Davyd hee stode on the rising hille, And the verdante prospecte view'd; And hee sawe that sweete river that o'er the moore Roll'd on her sylver floode.
As she had ended these wordes, she sawe the Lions come forth ramping, and bristling vp their heare, stretching forth their pawes with roaring voice, cruelly looking round about them, of whom the Lady thought to be the present pray.
Cyrus after the battaile and victorie, had against Cræsus, called diuerse of his men vnto him, and demaunded if they sawe Abradatas.
And when Abradatas sawe the preparation of Cyrus, that hee made against his enemies, he addressed to make prouision of armure, and thinges meete for the fielde for hym selfe.
And when hee sawe him to weepe he commaunded that if the honest poore man would dwel there to do some seruice, he should be reteyned.
So sone as she sawethem she began pitiously to weepe.
II: Berrys he sawe stondyng And wyld bestes ther goyng, Gret lyonys ther he fond.
When his brothren sawe that their father loued him more than all his brethern/ they hated him and coude not speke one kynde worde vnto him.
And it happened after he had bene there longe tyme/ y^t Abimelech kinge of y^e Philistias loked out at a wyndow & sawe Isaac sportinge with Rebecca his wife.
The thirde daye Abraham lyfte vp his eyes and sawe the place a farr of/ and sayde vnto his yong men: byde here with the asse.
But when he sawe the charettes which Ioseph had sent to carie him/ then his sprites reviued.
When the enhabiters of the lande the Cananytes sawe the moornynge in y^e felde of Atad/ they saide: this is a greate moornynge which the Egiptians make.
And the one went out from me and it is sayde of a suertie that he is torne in peaces of wyld beastes/ and I sawe him not sence.
When Ioseph sawe his brethern/ he knewe them: But made straunge vnto them/ and spake rughly vnto them saynge: Whence come ye?
And he lifte vp his eyes and sawethe wyves and their childern/ and sayde: what are these which thou there hast?
When the chefe bakersawe that he had well interpretate it/ he sayde vnto Ioseph/ me thought also in my dreame/ y^t I had .
When Iacob sawe that there was corne to be solde in Egipte/ he sayde vnto his sones: why are ye negligent?
When Ioseph sawe that his father layd his ryghte hande apon the heade of Ephraim/ it displeased him.
Sinnes price seemd payd with brasse, fewe sawethe gold, 15 Yet true stones set in lead theyr lustre hold.
Nature amaz'd sawe man without mans ayde Borne of a mother nursed by her a mayd, The child the Parent was, the worke the word, No word till then did such a worke affoord.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sawe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
